"My Last Drink Was the Saddest Drink” | From Heroin at 17 to 18 Years Sober

Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero · Feb 17, 2026 · 49m

At 12 years old, she blacked out on gin. At 17, she was introduced to heroin. By 18, she had abandoned film school in Manhattan and was fully consumed by addiction. And then one day, she says: “I finally connected the drink with the feeling.” In this powerful episode of Nothing’s Off the Table, I sit down with Maggie F., National Director of Strategic Development at Banyan Treatment Centers and a woman with 18 years of sobriety. We talk about: * Growing up in rural Vermont with early exposure to alcohol * Blacking out the very first time she drank * Being introduced to heroin before…