Rise Above with Kevin Lanning

I'm Exposing The Rehab Scam That's Killing People In Recovery In South Florida

Crystal Meliea is back on Rise Above — and this time she’s risking a lot to tell the truth about an industry most people in recovery are afraid to talk about. With nearly

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 i

I Robbed My Own Drug Dealers Until One Shot Me | Fentanyl Addiction

Larry Chapman had every reason to make it. A 4.2 GPA honor student who graduated two months early, he was the kid everyone thought would be fine. But he was also prescrib

I Was A College Athlete Who Ended Up Homeless Shooting Heroin

Dom Scalzo lived and breathed lacrosse. He was the first kid from his small Rochester high school to go Division 1, chasing a childhood dream of playing at Syracuse — unt

I Drove The Getaway Car For A Pharmacy Robbery To Feed My Heroin Addiction

Dalen McMillon’s story is almost too wild to be real. A bull rider and martial artist as a kid, he became an Army airborne paratrooper before 9/11, then built a glamorous

Brandon Kelly on Losing Everything to Fentanyl and Nearly His Arms

Brandon Kelly is about to celebrate two years sober — the longest stretch of his life, and something he never believed he’d live to see. He grew up in Hammonton, New Jers

I Was A Straight-A Engineering Student Secretly Overdosing At Parties | Lily Trestan on Overdosing at 21, Getting Sober Young and Finding Her Purpose

From the outside, Lily Trestan looked like she had it all together — a private-school kid from Montreal, a straight-A student on track for an engineering career at McGill

I Played In The NBA With LeBron...Then Lost It All To Addiction | How Delonte West Found Sobriety

Delonte West lived a dream millions of kids chase — a standout at Saint Joseph's, drafted into the NBA at 21, and years in the league alongside legends like Paul Pierce,

Lily Trestan on Overdosing at 21, Getting Sober Young & Finding Her Purpose

From the outside, Lily Trestan looked like she had it all together — a private-school kid from Montreal, a straight-A student on track for an engineering career at McGill

I Was Found In A Coma On The Side Of The Road...No Pulse, No Heartbeat

Carrie has 26 and a half years of sobriety — and a story that shows just how far this disease can take someone, even after years clean. Adopted at birth and carrying a de

I Was A Sex Addict Living A Double Life For 20 Years

Ben Brown has seven years of sobriety and one of the most layered stories we’ve had on the show. Born in Brooklyn and raised between two completely opposite households, h

I Had A D1 Lacrosse Scholarship — Then I Started Shooting Heroin

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

Hiding Vodka & Shaking Every Day | I Needed A Drink So Bad I Walked Into A Murder Scene

Holly Hiles has six years of sobriety and a story that’s almost hard to believe. Growing up she bounced through twelve schools, leaned on her twin brother, and lost her f

You Don't Have To Hit Rock Bottom To Stop Drinking

Cadence came on Rise Above with a story that breaks the mold most people picture when they hear “sober.” She never drank in high school, never craved alcohol, and to this

I Was Told Kratom Was Harmless...It Was The Hardest Thing I Ever Quit

Tiffany Mercer flew across the country to tell a story most people in recovery have never heard put into words. She’d already done the hard work — sober from alcohol, yea

I Was A 7-Time Felon On Alabama's Most Wanted | Heroin Addiction Left Me Homeless Living Out of My Car

Amanda Lee grew up a privileged, straight-A overachiever in Birmingham who dreamed of becoming a nurse — but by 10 she was gripped by crippling anxiety, and her very firs

By 8th Grade I Was Getting High With The Homeless In Parking Garages

Lauren Latterell grew up moving from home to home around Palo Alto, never quite feeling like she belonged — and by middle school, she'd found that alcohol and drugs could

I Was A Porn Star Drowning In Cocaine & Whiskey — Now I'm A Sober Mom

From the outside, Riley Jensen was living a life a lot of people fantasize about — a successful adult-film career, thousands of dollars a week, flying around the world, t

At 17 A Car Crash Sent Me Down A 15-Year Spiral Into Addiction

Jonathan Gale was a 17-year-old athlete in small-town Wyoming when one lunchtime car ride changed the course of his life. His cousin, driving, inhaled air duster, passed

I Robbed The Bank I Worked At...Then Stripped For 20 Years & Ended Up On Crack

Allison Doss grew up in a tiny, divided Louisiana town, in a home ruled by fear — and from a young age she learned she could survive anything and bend the world to her wi