Is a Sober Life Better Than the Rock Star Dream? | Tanner S.
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Tanner Strickland's life was on a celebrated path: a star football recruit for the University of Georgia by age 16, a talented musician, and a young man from a tight-knit South Georgia community. But beneath the surface of this all-American success story, a struggle with addiction was brewing, starting with a prescription for Percocet at 14. Tanner opens up about how the pressure to maintain an image, a devastating injury, and the allure of the rock-and-roll lifestyle led him down a dark path of opiates, cocaine, and eventually a full-blown fentanyl addiction.
This episode is a raw journey from the football field to jail cells and treatment centers. Tanner discusses the tragic loss of friends along the way, the moment his secret life exploded onto the front page of every newspaper in the state, and the 2021 arrest that finally forced him to ...