I Hid My Heroin Addiction from My Wife for 3 Years w/ Jesse Sanchez | The Hopeaholics Podcast #361

Jesse Sanchez was 11 the first time he smoked weed, 14 when he tried cocaine and opiates, and 17 when he looked up from a carpet covered in crack and thought "holy s***, what are we doing." He eventually landed on heroin as his drug of choice and spent three years hiding it from his wife, driving 4.5 hours round trip to his dealer while she thought he was at work, once using a co-worker's real funeral as cover to go pick up. When she finally found out, he ended up on his sister's couch in Washington sweating it out, then a year in AA still drinking, still taking chips for heroin. He's been six years off heroin, four years fully clean.Six months into his final sobriety, his brother Julian had died from fentanyl poisoning. The depression that followed got dark enough that when the thought of taking his son with him crossed his mind, it scared him into finally getting real help.Follow the Hopeaholics on our Socials:https://www.instagram.com/thehopeaholics https://linktr.ee/thehopeaholicsGo to www.Wolfpak.com today and support our sponsors. Don't forget to use code: HOPEAHOLICSPODCAST for 10% off!Visit our Treatment Centers: https://www.hopebythesea.comIf you or a loved one needs help, please call or text 949-615-8588. We have the resources to treat mental health and addiction. Sponsored by the Infiniti Group LLC:https://www.infinitigroupllc.com Join our patreon to get access to an EXTRA EPISODE every week of ‘Off the Record’, exclusive content, a thriving recovery community, and opportunities to be featured on the podcast. https://patreon.com/TheHopeaholics Our Merch: https://thehopeaholics.myshopify.com#TheHopeaholics #redemption #recovery #AlcoholAddiction #AddictionRecovery #wedorecover #SobrietyJourney #MyStory #Hope #wedorecover #treatmentcenter #natalieevamarie0:00    — Into2:07    — The shirt: in memory of Julian7:43    — Parents divorced when he was 28:14    — Age 11: first smoked weed with a friend, not his brother10:06   — Age 14: no weed around, tried cocaine13:17   — Age 17: became a crackhead14:12   — Opiates vs everything else17:15   — When pills got scarce, friends switched to heroin18:06   — Met his wife from Ukraine23:17   — Wife caught him, admitted pills, never mentioned heroin32:37   — Used a co-worker's real funeral as cover to go pick up drugs34:30   — Confessing addiction to wife42:45   — Detoxing at sister's house45:18   — 6 years off heroin, never touched it since46:04   — Tried AA while still drinking51:22   — Relapsed on cocaine at work, told his sponsor55:24   — Mom calls to tell me my brother died58:20   — 800-pound steel tube cut his fingertips off on the job1:04:39 — Staying sober through brother's death1:09:05 — Rock bottom in sobriety1:17:33 — What turned the corner: therapy, EMDR1:21:06 — What you tell your sponsor vs what you tell a therapist