Elijah got clean at just 21 years old and never went back.

Seventeen years later, however, he learned that staying clean doesn’t mean life stops falling apart.

In this episode of Never Alone Never Again, Elijah opens up about a childhood marked by abuse, neglect, abandonment and trauma. He began using at a young age and eventually progressed to cocaine and methamphetamine, finding himself headed down the same destructive path he had watched growing up.

Today, despite having 17 years clean, Elijah is open about the fact that life still isn’t perfect. He is currently sleeping on a friend’s couch while finishing college and rebuilding his life.

“With 17 years clean, I didn’t think I would be homeless.”

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Brendan Clark knows firsthand how powerful addiction can be, even when the consequences are devastating.

After serving three years in prison, Brendan was introduced to prescription opioids and says he was hooked the first time he took Vicodin. Within a year, his addiction had progressed to heroin, IV drug use, and eventually fentanyl.

In this episode of Never Alone Never Again, Brendan opens up about the loss that followed. His infant son Carter passed away from SIDS, his son’s mother later died from a fentanyl overdose, and another former partner and mother of his child later died by suicide.

After the fentanyl overdose, Brendan recorded a video telling his young son that his mother had died. The video spread around the world and became a powerful piece of fentanyl-awareness content, with people still telling Brendan years later that it helped them or someone they love seek recovery.

But Brendan’s own recovery wasn’t immediate.

Even after experiencing firsthand what fentanyl could do, he returned to using. He went through treatment repeatedly, spent time in psychiatric facilities and jail, and says he had tried treatment countless times before something finally changed.

In 2022, dope sick on his mother’s couch, Brendan accepted another opportunity to enter treatment in California. This time, instead of leaving after 30 days and returning home, he stayed, entered sober living, found a recovery community, and built a new life.

Today, Brendan is four years sober, works in addiction treatment as a Business Development and Outreach Coordinator, and created Time to Go Recovery. He regularly takes Narcan, food, clothing, sleeping bags, and other supplies into areas including MacArthur Park and Skid Row while helping connect people with treatment and recovery resources.

His story is proof that even after relapse, repeated treatment attempts, prison, grief, and years of addiction, it is still possible to start over.


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Judy Wilson’s story spans decades of addiction, trauma, success, relapse, and long-term recovery.

Growing up near San Francisco during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Judy was exposed to drugs at a young age. As she got older, her life took her to New York, where she built a successful career and eventually worked on Wall Street while cocaine and alcohol became a major part of her life.

In this episode of Never Alone Never Again, Judy opens up about freebasing while working on Wall Street, being courted by Bear Stearns, parties where cocaine was served on platters, and how addiction can exist behind a life that looks successful from the outside.

Today, Judy says she has spent 35 of the last 37 years in recovery. She reflects on healing old trauma, self-compassion, spirituality, and what decades of recovery have taught her about continuing to grow.

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