Addicted To Oxycodone At 15... Heroin On The Streets By 20

Rise Above with Kevin Lanning · Jul 3, 2026 · 1h 4m

Clint Pitre was raised by his grandparents in Deltona, Florida, a Jehovah's Witness household where he always felt like something was off. By middle school he was smoking weed and drinking at the skate park. At 15 he took his first Oxycodone at a house party and knew instantly he wanted to feel that way for the rest of his life. By junior year he was so dependent that his own grandmother had to hand him a pill and tell him he was dope sick — that what he'd been taking was essentially synthetic heroin.

What followed was roughly 15 years of addiction that bounced him between Florida and…