Chris Cella
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267 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I never heard of it. No, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. Wow, good. Yeah, so the feds started to crack down on the Florida rehab shuffle, although I read – Uh, somewhere that it's supposedly coming back.
Um, that the, you know, cause it's basically, and you know, it wasn't the, he was probably one of the worst offenders, but a lot of these guys were, you know, they, they would just like, you know, get these cheap homes. Um, fill them with as many addicts as they could.
Sometimes they would charge rent like 75 bucks a week or something like that, plus the money they're getting from kickbacks from whichever treatment center they send them to. So they're housed. And then if they go to detox, the kickback, it's a revolving door of chaos and a revolving door of suffering and just pain for the addict. But they're making money at every stop.
I think a lot of people were starting to wake up to it, and I knew one of the girls who was one of his victims, and she was always like – Man, I just want to get the hell out of here. And she had this like look in her like I could see that there was something. And I thought she was just very like, you know, maybe had some some issues with her family or whatever.
Just a very depressed, sad person, even for an addict, even for an addict. Like I could tell that there was something like she was in absolute like misery and terror. She was afraid. They were afraid. Many people were afraid of him. And what he would do if they spoke out. And it was just, it was heartbreaking for me to see that.
Even as someone who's obviously committed crimes and things like that, I can't even imagine having the will to carry out such a monstrous act.
Addicts are some of the most resourceful, intelligent people on the planet. Like, you drop an addict in the middle of the desert, and they're going to find the nearest tribe with an opium pipe, you know, within 30 minutes.
Well, yeah, but if you get them to... if you can, you know, separate them from the drug and separate them from the addiction and turn that into something that's good, like, you know, an addiction to work or addiction to helping others, you know, that you can get addicted to. Like, I mean, for me, the reason I got sober, I think there's several factors that played into it.
Obviously God, you know, and... and the intrinsic motivation, you know, that I talked about, and having a fantastic support system that was there for me. They were just waiting for me to come to them, you know, just like, Hey, we're here. Just, you know, family. Yeah. My family.
And, um, and, um, one of the, uh, one halfway house owner who was kind of participating in this game, but he cared like he cared. He genuinely cared about the people who were coming to his house. He did not allow any drug use or anything like that. There was, I was at one place that was selling this, this guy was selling crack to his clients at the halfway house. No way. Yes.
And he was selling crack to just people in general. So we would get knocks on our doors at three o'clock in the morning from total fucking spun out crackheads. Come on. Yeah. No, man. And there was no door on the bathroom. It was the middle of the summer in South Florida. It's like 110 degrees out. No air conditioning.
Just fans littering, you know, littered across the living room and down the hallways and stuff. I mean, just an absolute shit show. And people are smoking crack in the halfway house? Yeah. His rule was, you know, fine line, no needles. Like, yeah, you can smoke crack, you can smoke whatever you want, just no needles. Like, all right.
Yeah, a couple of times.
I'd say it is, it's very destructive, obviously. But in terms of like a high, it's like 30 minutes of, like I can, you know, kind of that I can conquer the world.
You want to start doing all these like different tasks that you've been putting off, like because you feel confident about them now, but then it wears off and then you're just like so depressed and you think about every bad thing you've ever, it's like, yeah, like I don't know if you've ever had like cocaine withdrawal, like, or, you know, just coming off of cocaine after like a night of bender.
Like my dad would tell me that when he would do coke, like he was just like, you think about like, yeah, In third grade when I pushed that kid, you know, into the stairwell or whatever. Just like every, you know, and just like you just feel like a piece of garbage and you're depressed. Yes.
Yes, yes. And crack, it lasts. It's like the high is so fleeting too. Like with heroin, at least you get like a few good hours of, you know, a solid buzz. But with crack, it's like… you know, it goes away relatively fast.
Not very many.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, when I was, so I was living in the halfway house. I was selling, the guy was selling crack to us. And I just smoked some marijuana for the first time in a long time. And it made me, like, very introspective. You know, we can do that. Kind of like psychedelics do, too.
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