I Had A D1 Lacrosse Scholarship — Then I Started Shooting Heroin - Rise Above with Kevin Lanning | Lyssna här

Mac Chase had one goal growing up in the Annapolis area: become a Division 1 All-American lacrosse player. He got there — a scholarship to UMBC — but his drinking, which started around age ten, already had its grip on him. Within two years the scholarship was gone, and what followed was a decade-long slide through cocaine, pills, OxyContin, and eventually shooting heroin. He talks openly about it all: getting paid in OxyContin through a shady deal at the lacrosse shop he managed, driving eight hours each way to score, smoking pills in his hospital bed after a head-on crash nearly killed him, and conning his own mother out of her savings until she took a second mortgage and broke down.

Mac doesn’t flinch from the wreckage — the stealing, the lies, the near-fatal relapse that left him in kidney failure on dialysis at 34 — but this is ultimately a story about what came after. Ten years sober now, he shares the spiritual turning point that changed everything, the long road of making amends to his mom, being at his father’s side for his last breath, and the life he never thought he deserved: a wife, two daughters, and a gratitude he lives out one day at a time.