Division 1 Athlete to Overcoming Heroin Addiction — Jason Bernstein

Jason Bernstein is a current Master's in Clinical Psychology Student at Antioch University (we met in virtual class together as a result of the pandemic). Jason was a Division 1, nationally rated Golfer on scholarship at college in Delaware before being swallowed up by his addiction to pills and heroin. Thankfully, he ultimately, found his way out of the darkness and back into the light and is on a whole new career / life path in psychology with the intention of using his experience to help others. Episode Highlights // + The miracle of Jason still being here considering how bad it got with his addiction + How he was able to hide his addiction from others, which can be more dangerous because no one can see that he was killing himself + How addiction caused him his golfing scholarship at the University Of Delaware + Losing 5 of his close friends to drug addiction + How we are mostly taught alcohol, weed etc is OK but Heroin isn't and how he got into heroin in the first place + We discuss Gabor Mate PhD philosophy on addiction and how we shouldn't ask ourselves why the addiction and instead ask ourselves why the pain? + His first month of becoming clean and sober and the light returning + Making amends with those he hurt as a result of addiction + Society's limited view on mental illness and addiction... still + His advice to those considering abandoning their addiction