Chris Cella
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267 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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You know, it is like, truly, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Really? Yeah.
Pretty much. There were a few times when I was... uh, like kind of just on and off using. And so it was like the withdrawal was like, yeah, I kind of felt it, but there were, yeah, probably about 10 times when I went through hardcore withdrawal and, uh, yeah, every single time I was like, I never want to feel this feeling again, you know? And, but I wasn't, I still wasn't
committing to myself that I wanted to stop.
Uh, I mean, it's, they say like up to like seven days typically, but I mean, in reality, I mean, my, um, withdrawal, um, the, my last withdrawal lasted about like three, it was like three weeks before I remember, I remember like the day I was like laying in bed and I was like, wow, I actually feel comfortable. Like my body doesn't ache. Like I can, I'm like, I feel, I feel kind of normal.
Yeah. I mean, and it's like, again, the first week is just like absolute hell. You're sweating bullets. You're cold. Like the sweat on your body makes you cold. And then it's just, it's, it's terrible. And again, all of the other things I described and that just slowly. And then, and then the, the discomfort, it's like the epitome of discomfort.
some people got like diarrhea things like that I didn't some people got like would vomit and stuff but that never really happened to me I guess it's just you know depends on the person but yeah it just overwhelming like sense of just yeah shock I guess is the best way to put it and yeah again just terrible
Yeah. Yeah. So the first rehab I ever went to was, it was called the Phoenix house and it was in, um, it was in like Northern orange County and it was a state run facility. And like you, it was like a kind of like a bootcamp style. You had to like fold your bed with the military, you know, corner crease and everything like that. All your, um, shirts had to be lined up your, um,
You know, your toiletries had to be perfectly in a row, all that stuff. And, you know, I... did that. And I was like, I was like, I hate this. This sucks. And all I want to do is get out and, you know, I'm just like, I just can't wait till this 30 days is over so I can leave.
And, and I was like, I was like, I don't think I want to do, I was like, I, at that time I was like, I don't think I want to do heroin, but I definitely want to, like, I still want to be able to smoke marijuana. I still want to be able to drink. And like, and, uh, I mean, to this day, I still, you know, smoke marijuana and drink, uh, recreationally, occasionally. Um, but,
Yeah, I made the decision that I... You know, I just wasn't ready to quit yet. And I think what... It's really... You can go to as many different treatment centers, doctors, AA meetings. It has to be, I think, an intrinsic motivation to better yourself. And... You have to want that. Like you have to want it. You can't do it for somebody else.
If you're doing it for your child, if you're doing it for your wife, if you're doing it for your parents, you're going to fail.
Yeah. I mean, again, it's it's I think that like it's it's it all depends on the person. But again, it has to you have to want it. That's the bottom line is like you have to want it. And like these treatment centers, they can't they do some good, but they should not be like you should not say, you know, rehab is a cure or a is a cure because like.
Yeah, if you're go if you go into those places, you can sometimes develop the intrinsic motivation through therapy or through discussion with other people or whatever. But I mean, for me, it was so fast forward a little bit. So, you know, I get basically kicked out of every rehab in California. So my parents are like, all right, let's send you to Florida. Let's try a new environment.
And South Florida was like the rehab capital. Of course, Delray. Yeah. Yeah, Delray, Boynton Beach. And it was just – I mean I was shocked that like some of the places where the halfway houses were – or the – Sober homes were located like down the street from like the known markets where people like were, you know. It's a scam.
Yeah.
Yeah, they see you as an insurance policy with a heartbeat. Exactly. That's pretty much it, you know, and... True villains, I think. Yeah, yeah. No, no, this most, the most sinister man probably in, if you want to just pick one out is, his name is ******. He was, I, that was the first treatment center I went to in Florida. So ****** owned a treatment center and he owned several halfway houses.
But they were all – everything was in his wife's name. That's one thing that was like a red flag to me. And so – and this guy shows up to the rehab center in like a three-piece Armani suit with like a Gucci belt and like dressed like a pimp. I mean – and ironically, he is a pimp. He was – so he had girls in his halfway houses that he was giving heroin, giving crack, and pimping them out.
And then sending them back to treatment where they would ultimately fail their drug test and have to go to detox. And guess who gets a kickback from the detox center?
Yeah. And it's the South Florida rehab shuffle. There are many cases of it. If you just Google that, you'll see a bunch of different stories. But I would say it was like the kingpin of just absolute scumbag, like you said, villain, a villain, a true villain. That's so evil that it's hard. Yeah. It's incomprehensible to me as a human being.
Yeah, essentially.
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