I Was Homeless Shooting Fentanyl in Miami | Overdoses, Coma & How I Finally Got Sober

Rise Above with Kevin Lanning · Aug 1, 2026 · 1h 6m

Jonah Fingerhood had a nearly perfect childhood in New Hampshire — until he was 16 and lost his older brother to substance abuse. A year later, a skateboarding accident and a compound fracture put a bottle of Percocet in his hands, and the pain of that grief, followed by his father's cancer diagnosis, finally had somewhere to go. He describes the first time he crushed and snorted a pill as the moment he'd "arrived" the feeling he wanted to chase for the rest of his life.

That chase took everything. Percocet became heroin, heroin became a needle, and a move to Philadelphia and then Florida…