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Jess

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So all of that just... I never stopped taking my pills. I was like, fuck it, he's gonna go get high, I'm gonna stay high. And so I just kept taking pain pills.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So all of that just... I never stopped taking my pills. I was like, fuck it, he's gonna go get high, I'm gonna stay high. And so I just kept taking pain pills.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So all of that just... I never stopped taking my pills. I was like, fuck it, he's gonna go get high, I'm gonna stay high. And so I just kept taking pain pills.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We did later, and it was bad. And we tried to keep each other sane and good. There would be periods. I tell everybody, it's just like a roller coaster. I would be high, he would be clean, or he would be drunk, and then I would finally be okay. He started getting, and this is like, you know, years in the making. We get thrown out of him and Aaron's house. They foreclose on it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We did later, and it was bad. And we tried to keep each other sane and good. There would be periods. I tell everybody, it's just like a roller coaster. I would be high, he would be clean, or he would be drunk, and then I would finally be okay. He started getting, and this is like, you know, years in the making. We get thrown out of him and Aaron's house. They foreclose on it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We did later, and it was bad. And we tried to keep each other sane and good. There would be periods. I tell everybody, it's just like a roller coaster. I would be high, he would be clean, or he would be drunk, and then I would finally be okay. He started getting, and this is like, you know, years in the making. We get thrown out of him and Aaron's house. They foreclose on it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We end up getting a much bigger house. And I'm a workaholic, just like him. I'm like a machine. I don't talk. I just work. So we were making money, just swimming in money. And the whole time he's buying my pills because obviously the doctors cut me off. You know, I don't need C-section pills anymore. And so I'm like, you know, I'm getting sick if I don't have these pills.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We end up getting a much bigger house. And I'm a workaholic, just like him. I'm like a machine. I don't talk. I just work. So we were making money, just swimming in money. And the whole time he's buying my pills because obviously the doctors cut me off. You know, I don't need C-section pills anymore. And so I'm like, you know, I'm getting sick if I don't have these pills.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We end up getting a much bigger house. And I'm a workaholic, just like him. I'm like a machine. I don't talk. I just work. So we were making money, just swimming in money. And the whole time he's buying my pills because obviously the doctors cut me off. You know, I don't need C-section pills anymore. And so I'm like, you know, I'm getting sick if I don't have these pills.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I'm getting them from my sister. I'm getting them from anybody I can. And every once in a while in Memphis, there will be a drought and you can't find pills. And I was so sick and he can't stand to see me sick. So he was like, we both know because I was on heroin before I even met him. We know if you can't find pills, you go get heroin. And it's a lot cheaper to begin with anyway.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I'm getting them from my sister. I'm getting them from anybody I can. And every once in a while in Memphis, there will be a drought and you can't find pills. And I was so sick and he can't stand to see me sick. So he was like, we both know because I was on heroin before I even met him. We know if you can't find pills, you go get heroin. And it's a lot cheaper to begin with anyway.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I'm getting them from my sister. I'm getting them from anybody I can. And every once in a while in Memphis, there will be a drought and you can't find pills. And I was so sick and he can't stand to see me sick. So he was like, we both know because I was on heroin before I even met him. We know if you can't find pills, you go get heroin. And it's a lot cheaper to begin with anyway.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So he went and got me heroin. I think that lasted about a week or two that I was just doing... No, probably about a week. A week at most. And he was like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to get on heroin too. So then we were both on heroin. And it's just straight downhill from there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So he went and got me heroin. I think that lasted about a week or two that I was just doing... No, probably about a week. A week at most. And he was like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to get on heroin too. So then we were both on heroin. And it's just straight downhill from there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So he went and got me heroin. I think that lasted about a week or two that I was just doing... No, probably about a week. A week at most. And he was like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to get on heroin too. So then we were both on heroin. And it's just straight downhill from there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So they would be back and forth. They were with Erin most of the time. But you know, they would come visit. Like we had this big house, like she had a little apartment. And I think because we're workaholics, we made so much money, we were able to afford this big house. And so there's room for all of the kids, you know, all together with my kid and his kid.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So they would be back and forth. They were with Erin most of the time. But you know, they would come visit. Like we had this big house, like she had a little apartment. And I think because we're workaholics, we made so much money, we were able to afford this big house. And so there's room for all of the kids, you know, all together with my kid and his kid.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So they would be back and forth. They were with Erin most of the time. But you know, they would come visit. Like we had this big house, like she had a little apartment. And I think because we're workaholics, we made so much money, we were able to afford this big house. And so there's room for all of the kids, you know, all together with my kid and his kid.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

There were six kids, seven kids, shit, because I had James, seven kids. And there was room for all of them. And so they would come over there a lot. It was a big, nice house. They loved being over there. And I think at first nobody really, nobody really understood the totality of how deep in it we were in because we made it look good. You know, we kept the businesses going and for me,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

There were six kids, seven kids, shit, because I had James, seven kids. And there was room for all of them. And so they would come over there a lot. It was a big, nice house. They loved being over there. And I think at first nobody really, nobody really understood the totality of how deep in it we were in because we made it look good. You know, we kept the businesses going and for me,