AfterPartyPod: From Shooting Meth to Writing Professionally with Amy Dresner

Writer Amy Dresner has lived a dramatic life: a self-confessed trustafarian from Hollywood, Dresner was a quote-unquote good girl until she went off to college. Normal college antics followed but it was when she moved to San Francisco in her 20s and tried meth that her life went, well, off the rails. Eventually, she was shooting drugs, hanging with dealers and being asked if she knew anyone who might want to buy a gun silencer. (She did not.) Five treatment centers later, following a confrontation with her then-husband that landed her in jail, Dresner found sobriety—supporting herself, staying in Sober Living for several years and doing 12-step work in earnest. Now she’s a regular columnist for The Fix and finishing her memoir, My Fair Junky, which Hachette will release in 2017. In this episode, we discuss the 200-plus hours she spent sweeping the streets, how she learned to shoot drugs from a guy she met in rehab and how recovery is all about allowing feelings to pass, among other topics.

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