I Was Doing Cocaine Every Single Day For 3 Years & Had A Seizure At My Desk....and I Kept Using

I Was Doing Cocaine Every Single Day For 3 Years & Had A Seizure At My Desk....and I Kept Using

From Rise Above with Kevin Lanning by Kevin Lanning

July 12, 2026 · 1h 8m

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Gregg shares his journey of addiction to cocaine, the impact on his life, and his path to recovery.

From the outside Gregg looked like he had it handled — a family, a career, a wife he'd known since middle school. Underneath it he was doing cocaine every single day, and had been for years. He'll tell you he never fit the picture of what people imagine an addict looks like. He wasn't running around wired; cocaine actually quieted the chaos in his head, turned down the noise, and let him not feel. And once he started, he couldn't stop. For about two and a half to three years he used daily, isolating, trying to solve the problem himself without ever saying it out loud to another person. His marriage was going south, his self-worth was gone, and he'd gotten to the point where he couldn't even look at himself in the mirror to shave. Then, in the middle of a run, he had a seizure and woke up on the floor, ending up in the hospital. And even that didn't stop him — he kept using for days afterward. His actual bottom came quietly, sitting on his son's Little League bench, unable to keep his eyes open, thinking to himself what a piece of garbage he'd become. A few days later, something a podcast host said cut through: you can't start to fix the problem until you say it out loud to…

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