I Couldn't Go A Single Day Without Cocaine For A Decade | From Iraq Combat Vet To Cocaine Addict DJ

J.R. had two lives most people never see collide. He was a decorated Army soldier — one of the first 500 troops across the border into Iraq during shock and awe, living in one of Saddam’s bombed-out palaces, surviving rocket attacks and losing friends. Then he came home to PTSD, a stack of new diagnoses, and no real plan, and walked straight into the nightlife. Within a few years he was one of the most in-demand DJs in town, pulling $2,500 a night, booking celebrities — and doing cocaine under the DJ booth every single night.

He’s brutally honest about the decade that followed: the money, the chaos, the celebrity benders, and the slow-burn misery of being depressed and suicidal while everyone thought he had it all. He doesn’t dress up the bottom that finally woke him up at 36, or the work it took to climb out — the meetings, the prayer and the gym, the self-development that rebuilt him from the ground up, and the moment a therapist told him to start telling his story. Eight years sober, J.R. is now a present father, a recovery coach who’s helped more than a hundred people, and proof that you can come back from two wars — the one overseas and the one with yourself.

Follow J.R. on Instagram @JHunterCoaching.



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