Rodney Zimmers was 21 when he finally kicked his cocaine and heroin habit for good. He weighed 135 pounds at the time. Afterward, his weight gain went up to 250 pounds and he complained that they served too many high-calorie and high-sugar foods at his rehab facility. He also claimed that he had no idea how to grocery shop or cook by the time he was 21. He basically ended up trading one addiction for another-which is often called transferring addictions.
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