When Michael Stein was mugged and beaten in Las Vegas, he had 'given up on struggling with' heroin addiction. Now he's celebrating two years sober.
When Michael Stein was mugged and beaten in Las Vegas, he had"given up on struggling with" heroin addiction. Now he's celebrating two years sober.We're in the midst of our spring campaign, and we have until June 7 to raise $12,000. This money directly supports the journalismproduces and helps keep our work freely accessible for all, because not everyone can afford to pay for news. If you value our work, please make a contribution today to help us reach our goal.
Stein returned to his hometown of Orange County, California, to live with his parents in November 2022. He's been clean since then and is excited about celebrating two years of sobriety this year. But he can still remember the wretched reality he ultimately accepted as his fate during that time in Las Vegas.
“Regardless of my own health, I also thought I was not in the band anymore, just because I flaked and was a missing human being for three months at the end of that,” Stein confesses. “Prior to that I had been a drug addict, so I had thought the band moved on without me. I definitely had worn out all of my trust and patience that any normal person would fucking have for somebody by the end of it.
“It made life so easy after that. I swear, if I had gotten back and been like, 'I should really stop doing heroin after all this fucked-up stuff happened,' and I still wanted to do it, I don’t know if I would be able to do that,” he continues. “Not wanting to do it is like the most relieving thing in the fucking world. It opened up all these things where our relationship was able to be better. The way I approach music is obviously more efficient, too.
“It’s community. It’s our own artistic expression, the way that we get to do something that I think in some ways is helpful to other people,” Stein adds, while admitting that his addiction spiraled when the scene shut down during the pandemic.
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