Episode #153 | Meth 2 Marathons with Trey WhiteEpisode #153 | Meth 2 Marathons with Trey White
Recovery Lab
Trey White shares how he went from a promising athlete to a meth-addicted, 10-time felon and how accountability, faith, and peer support transformed his life. The conversation highlights the cost of addiction, the power of tough love, and the possibility of rebuilding a future in recovery.
59:47•19 Oct 2026
From Meth to Marathons: Trey White’s Wild Ride to Recovery
Episode Overview
- Owning personal responsibility for addiction is essential; blaming others keeps recovery out of reach.
- Tough love from family, including cutting off financial support, can become a turning point.
- Peer support and lived experience can be as crucial as clinical knowledge in sustaining sobriety.
- Combining faith-based practices with recovery groups like Celebrate Recovery offers a strong foundation.
- Hope can return even after multiple relapses, felonies, and years in prison, if consistent work is put into change.
“If you don’t own up to it, you’re not ever going to get it… it was me.”
Get ready to be moved by real-life accounts of hitting rock bottom and then building something entirely new. Recovery Lab brings together hosts David Sugg, Brynn Knox, and Daniel Anderson with guest Trey White, author of *Meth 2 Marathons*, to share a story that swings from dark humour to raw honesty in seconds.
Trey talks about growing up in what he calls a “Leave It to Beaver family”, earning a baseball scholarship, and then trading that future for crystal meth, crime, and 20 years cycling in and out of prison. He’s brutally open about his 10 felony convictions, 23 rehab stays, and the moment he realised, “This is my fault… it was me,” rather than blaming parents, courts, or God.
You’ll hear how a first drink on a driver’s permit led to DUIs, meth labs, boot camp-style prison programs, and wild stories like driving a hitchhiker six hours the wrong way on his very first meth binge. The conversation doesn’t glamorise it; Trey is upfront about shame, fear, psychosis, and the years he spent convinced someone would eventually kill him. What makes this episode especially relatable is how it shifts into what life looks like now.
Trey shares how faith, peer support, Celebrate Recovery, and brutally honest accountability reshaped his path. Today he’s a husband, father, Peer Support Supervisor at Mississippi State Hospital, and a graduate student in social work, still running—literally—from meth to marathons. The tone stays relaxed and funny at times, but there’s a clear message: recovery means doing the hard emotional work, owning your choices, and letting support in.
If you’re wondering whether long-term chaos can ever be turned around, this story might have you asking yourself what “owning your part” could look like in your life.
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