Nov. 2, 2018 – Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life. Buschel spoke to The Fix about how he got here and what makes this year’s RRFF so special. “After 26 years of abusing everything from Valium to vodka and cocaine to codeine, I crashed and burned. I smoked my breakfast, drank my lunch and snorted my dinner.” Finally, beaten to his bottom, the depressed and close-to-hopeless Buschel schlepped himself into 12-step recovery at the Betty Ford Center.