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How getting arrested and going to jail helped one young man turn his life around

From Reefer to Reps –

Jan. 4, 2019 – “I was smoking well over a pack of cigarettes a day,” he said. “I was snorting several hundred milligrams of OxyContin every day. A regular meal for me would be going to a pizza shop, getting a foot-long cheesesteak and a couple slices of pizza.” … “I was the unhealthiest person you could possibly think of,” Bopst continued. “Never exercised. Never ran. Never cared, you know, what I looked like. I mean, deep down, I did. But I felt so hopeless about myself and had no self-confidence and I didn’t even think anything really mattered, that anything I did even mattered.”

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