THE INCREDIBLE RECOVERY OF
TODD “Z-MAN” ZALKINS
FAME, MISFORTUNE AND REDEMPTION 1988 1990 Heroin enters
the Long Beach punk scene
Todd Zalkins forms a close
friendship with Brad Nowell,
Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh, who go on to form Sublime
Zalkins begins abusing Vicodin after a back injury
1996
16-18 OxyContin 12-16 Norcos
Zalkins’ addiction escalates, fueled by
2-3 Fentanyl
nonstop alcohol, pills and cocaine
Nowell dies of a heroin overdose,
His daily opioid habit progresses
leaving Zalkins inconsolable
into “the worst case” that his doctor has ever seen
2007 Zalkins checks into rehab and goes through detox. It would be 44 days until he’d be able to sleep again, and the tremors would last for nine months.
2017
THE OPIOID CRISIS
Zalkins celebrates 10 years of
“This is a problem that isn’t going
successful recovery
away anytime soon,” Zalkins says. “It will take more lives than the
SPREADING HOPE
AIDS crisis in the 1980s, with really no end in sight.”
OPIOID DEATHS
THROUGH LITERATURE, FILM, PODCASTS
IN 2016:
42,249 AIDS DEATHS PEAKED IN 1995:
51,000
SOURCES
Opioid-related insurance claims in southern California increased by 31,897 percent from 2007 to 2016
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00039622.htm https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
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