"Not Asking for Help Can Ruin Your Life" — Retired FDNY Paramedic

Carmine Fiore spent years being that person.

White-knuckling it. Convinced that asking for help meant losing everything — the identity, the career, the respect of the crew.

Thirty treatment centers and fifteen overdoses later, he has one thing to say to the firefighter, the EMT, the cop listening right now:

"Asking for help is not going to ruin your life. Not asking for help can, though."

That's it. That's the whole message.

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