Episode 46: I Spent $1 Million on Drugs - The Devin Price Story Part 2




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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;"><span>Devin</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 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></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';"> </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-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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';"> </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-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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';"> </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-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At the end of Part 1, Devin had just been pulled over by police, with a car full of drugs, and contemplated suicide in that moment. He faced a long list of charges, all which carried a maximum sentence of life in prison.</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';"> </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-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fortunately, Devin didn’t spend that long behind bars. At 29, he’s still young, recently out of prison, has a new outlook on life, a job, and is taking things one day at a time. </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';"> </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-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hear how Devin dealt with prison and kept clean, what’s m</span></div>