Living to Use, Using to Live
Jack Nagle was a nice, middle-class kid from a supportive, loving family. Not the background befitting the stereotype of those who destroy their lives on drugs…but that didn’t matter.
Jack ended his teens and started his twenties as the most hardcore drug addict imaginable and the fact he’s lived to tell the tale defies all probability. Shooting up ice and heroin and swallowing fists full of prescription pills, he was brought back to life by paramedics after dealers left him to die of an overdose, only to go straight back to those same people for more drugs after checking out of hospital.
He was as hopeless as hopeless gets… but there’s always hope. Not in a fantastical, too good-to-be-true way, but the kind of hope that against all odds can one day manifest into a rich, rewarding life that most in the grip of addiction would think impossible.
But Jack proves IT IS possible. Now more than a decade clean and running a drug education and media business, Real Drug Talk, is the person he really needed when he thought he was beyond all help.
Scroll back through our podcast library to episode #62 published on September 4 2021 for the full story.