Opioid addiction almost destroyed me – then I became a top marathon runner

Opioid addiction almost destroyed me – then I became a top marathon runner

I t started in 1998, with a pain in Ken Rideout’s ankle. A podiatrist gave him a prescription for seven Percocet, a drug containing the opioid oxycodone. Rideout was a high-flying commodity trader in New York, outwardly successful but racked with impostor syndrome. The Percocet dulled his foot pain...

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