{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist","title":"221. Ryan Rogers: Gas Station Opioids, Faith-Based Recovery, and Honest Therapy","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4389,"description":"My friend Ryan Rogers returns to the podcast for our third conversation. He's an addictions counselor in Texas, host of Reality Therapy, and now the author of two books — The Woke Mind and his new release, The Carpenter's Recovery, a Christian guide to 12-step recovery.\nWe start with what's being called \"gas station heroin\": a chemical called 7-OH, extracted from kratom, that's roughly thirteen times stronger than morphine and sold legally next to the 5-Hour Energy drinks at the checkout counter. Ryan walks me through how legal loopholes have produced a generation of accidental addicts, including church kids and high-conscientiousness adults who'd never touch illegal drugs. I share my own \"little old lady\" story — how my elderly mom was given a 10mg THC gummy by her stoner massage therapist — as a warning to anyone navigating this new landscape with vulnerable elders.\nFrom there we go into cannabis-induced psychosis, cannabis use hyperemesis disorder, fentanyl displacing heroin, and what's actually working in addiction treatment. Ryan explains why he wrote a Christian recovery book and why naming Jesus in AA meetings still gets people shut down. We close on the state of the therapy field: woke ideology, AI psychosis, the rise of niche experts over licensed therapists, and why \"live your truth, king\" is the worst possible response to a client telling you they're about to relapse.\nFollow Reality Therapy podcast | Follow Ryan on X @ryanmcrogers\n[00:00:00] Start\n[00:02:06] Gas Station Heroin: What Is 7-OH?\n[00:05:55] Kava, Feel Free, and Designer Drugs\n[00:11:25] How 7-OH Hits the Opioid System\n[00:14:30] The Little Old Lady THC Gummy Story\n[00:25:30] Methadone vs. Suboxone for Detox\n[00:35:56] The Carpenter's Recovery: A Christian Approach\n[00:40:32] Why AA Pushes Back on Christianity\n[00:48:15] Reality Therapy and the State of the Field\n[00:53:42] AI Psychosis and the Future of Therapy\n[00:58:40] Tough Love and \"Live Your Truth, King\"\n[01:04:30] Honoring Who...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7R2fJL6ksh0-aqhZGIKVghpF0n5-RelfaD139dcIBCQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI1NzQ0LzE2NDQy/NzA3NjktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}