Doing Ketamine At A Wedding In Front Of A Flower Girl w/John Nettles | The Hopeaholics Podcast #342

In this episode, Chad and Natalie sit down with John Nettles for an unfiltered conversation about addiction, recovery, identity, and finding hope after years of chaos.

John shares his journey from being adopted and discovering his biological family years later, to a decade-long battle with alcoholism, cocaine addiction, prescription Xanax dependence, and the nightlife lifestyle as a DJ and concert promoter. He opens up about multiple treatment attempts, legal trouble, blackouts, near-death experiences, and the emotional toll addiction took on both him and the people who loved him.

The turning point came when one phone call challenged everything John thought he knew about sobriety, leading him to discover the difference between simply being abstinent and truly living in recovery.

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Timestamps:
0:00 — Cold open 
1:23 — Show intro, Natalie and Chad 
4:04 — Born in Richmond, adopted 
5:17 — Finding his birth parents through Ancestry.com 
6:05 — His birth mom found him through his old DJ page 
8:09 — His adoptive dad's own addiction and recovery 
11:22 — First treatment at 16, prescribed Xanax 
12:24 — First drink, using heavy by 12-13 
14:41 — Parents find pills in his room, first treatment program 
15:16 — Diagnosed with GAD, put on Ambien and Xanax at 16 
17:10 — First time doing cocaine at 15 
20:12 — First inpatient treatment, Sierra Tucson 
23:10 — Concert promoter years, fentanyl hits the scene 
27:57 — First DUI at 18 
32:19 — The Vegas bachelor party bender 
33:13 — Wedding meltdown, ketamine and a bottle of Xanax 
35:35 — Grandma's house in Newport, first blackout disappearance 
39:09 — Another DUI, relapses straight out of the impound lot 
41:15 — A childhood friend dies, drinks through the funeral 
42:44 — Back at Grandma's, wakes up with blood on his hands 
45:09 — The call to interventionist Bob Mary 
48:24 — His last drink and drug 
49:51 — His grandmother's final days 
52:02 — Staying teachable in sobriety 
53:34 — Ryan Holiday and the truth about treatment 
56:20 — Falls into a career working in treatment 
1:00:06 — Making amends to his dad 
1:01:54 — His grandmother passes days before his one-year sober 
1:05:10 — Headlining a sober charity show 
1:06:38 — Starting his own podcast 
1:18:43 — Chad's own relapse while working in treatment 
1:19:31 — What's broken about the addiction treatment industry 
1:21:08 — What "the right way" to do treatment looks like 
1:23:14 — Aftercare, and going home to the same life 
1:25:24 — The gift of desperation