opioid crisis

Man Fights to Overcome Opioid Addiction

VIDEO – IT CAN BE DONE –

Dec. 12, 2023 – 35-year-old James Gotte said he’s looking forward to celebrating one year of being sober this month. 

He said his drug addiction started at a young age, but now he wants a brighter future. 

“I started using heroin and fentanyl probably for about six or seven years before this point,” he said. Gotte said his addiction started with one drug and escalated. 

“I was on pills real bad, and then they said, ‘Hey, you can get more of a high for a cheaper cost with heroin, so I said I’m going to go for that, and then, after that, it was just a rabbit down a hole,” Gotte said. Gotte told me the drugs led him into a deep and dark depression, one that left him feeling misunderstood and even suicidal. 

“I told myself I’m accountable for it because my friends may have put it [drugs] there, but I made the choice to go for it,” Gotte said. “As soon as anyone with an addiction like myself can realize the self is the problem, then you can fix that going forward.”

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