Episode 45: I Spent $1 Million on Drugs - The Devin Price Story Part 1




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Summary: <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Devin Price blames nobody but himself for the direction his life took. As a kid, Devin thought his childhood was fairly normal. His dad ran off and his mother became addicted to drugs, but Devin’s grandparents did their best to provide a stable, loving home.</span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">By 17, Devin had gotten into harder drugs, both selling and dealing. But that was only the beginning. </span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In the coming years, Devin would get an underage girl pregnant, commit crimes, spend time in rehab and jail, make meth, start an escort service, and eventually land himself a serious prison sentence. </span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking back, it seemed that Devin had plenty of skills, they were simply misused. Now, at 29, Devin is still young, and recently out of prison. He’s clean, has a new outlook on life, and is ready to share his story. </span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div> <br> <div style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In this series, Devin takes us through his life from beginning to now, as we hear his story and follow his progress trying to stay clean and get back on his feet. </span></div> <br> <div style=""></div>