This is

heavy.

This is 15 minutes of freedom.

This is 15 minutes of freedom.

I'm your host Ryan Naidel, and today's episode is Heavy Days.

So in today's episode, I have to share with you the magnitude of a day that I had this week, actually Tuesday

of this week.

And I really don't have some sort of coy way to preface this to lead into what's going to go on in this episode.

So I ask that you just sit in and listen, digest.

So it's so secret to those of you that have been listening for quite some time that my best friend, Miles, passed away in early March.

Officially March 3rd, but really the truth is March 2nd, just nobody found him until March 3rd and the story

and the understanding that we had or that I was given or that I conjured up in my mind

however it got there, was that Miles died of a heroin overdose.

You see, Miles had had issues with chemical dependency ever since high school and not for the normal

reasons if there are normal reasons. Miles struggled because as a senior in

high school he was put on a dilata drip while admitted into the ER for a massive lung infection that

required him to miss almost all of his senior year and just be riddled with

pain and unfortunately no one back then, you know, Miles was 29 when he passed,

nobody 10 years ago either opened their eyes or knew that that was creating that long of being on

delotted was creating a chemical dependency in a chain reaction inside of his

body that made him chemically dependent upon that feeling.

And so as Miles comes out of the hospital and goes about trying to regain what sense of normalcy he lost. He found comfort in opioids. You know it started with

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