Ken Rideout
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That's an opioid blocker.
So you cannot get high.
If you take the drugs, it won't affect you.
It like basically occupies all the opioid receptors in your brain.
So it's like a, it's like a safeguard, but to take the Vivitrol, you have to be completely clean for a week, which most addicts can't do because it's, you're sick, like sicker than you can ever imagine.
So I did it and I got through it and I told her and she was like, oh my God, this is fantastic.
crazy.
And then I got the Vivitrol shot and then I was good.
And then I just, you know, I've had a few relapses along the way, but not enough.
None, no effects.
Believe me.
Cause I tried it.
You cannot get high.
Yeah, all of those things.
But, you know, your body is so resilient.
I mean, think about when they tell you Tylenol, don't take more than like four Tylenol in a day.
I'm taking fucking six at a time.
multiple times a day.
Like my body, just like the fact that I've survived this and in my addiction relative to like when you see a real hardcore heroin addict or fentanyl guy, you're like, how is this guy alive?
Like my friend, Zach Clark, who was like shooting heroin and smoking crack 24 seven for like a couple of years.