Mac Trucc Tell All - Rich Piana's Drug Addiction

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Mac Trucc looks back on how he met Rich Piana and his first hand witnessing of Piana's drug addiction.

On August 25, 2017, the famous bodybuilder and influencer Rich Piana passed away. It was a shock felt across the entire bodybuilding world. Since his passing, a deeper and different kind of look into the life of Rich emerged. One that showed him more as a man than the larger than life personality we all saw on YouTube or at expos. In our latest GI Exclusive interview, Mac Trucc details his long relationship with Rich Piana and reflects back at Piana's troubling drug addiction that was largely hidden from the public.

Mac Trucc had a complicated history with Rich Piana. They were in many ways best friends and spent a lot of time together. But their friendship was also filled with tumult throughout the years. Eventually there was a falling out. Mac Trucc attacked Piana in a video that went viral.

Yet despite how it all ended, Mac Trucc was one of the few people who knew the "real" Rich Piana. He even at one point mentions that "there would be no Mac Trucc without Rich Piana." Which is why we sat down with him to go into detail about how they met and perhaps get a deeper look into the man behind the influencer.

In the interview above, Mac Trucc shares with us a darker side of Rich Piana's drug addiction. There were always rumors that Piana took pain killers and opiates recreationally. But Mac Trucc pulls back the curtain on just how far the addiction went. He believes it played a large part in why Piana actually died. He even claims that he sadly knew his addiction would likely be the end of his life one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td6s...ture=emb_title

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Interesting interview for sure. I never knew the true meaning of 5% until now.

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Mac Trucc looks back on how he met Rich Piana and his first hand witnessing of Piana's drug addiction.

On August 25, 2017, the famous bodybuilder and influencer Rich Piana passed away. It was a shock felt across the entire bodybuilding world. Since his passing, a deeper and different kind of look into the life of Rich emerged. One that showed him more as a man than the larger than life personality we all saw on YouTube or at expos. In our latest GI Exclusive interview, Mac Trucc details his long relationship with Rich Piana and reflects back at Piana's troubling drug addiction that was largely hidden from the public.

Mac Trucc had a complicated history with Rich Piana. They were in many ways best friends and spent a lot of time together. But their friendship was also filled with tumult throughout the years. Eventually there was a falling out. Mac Trucc attacked Piana in a video that went viral.

Yet despite how it all ended, Mac Trucc was one of the few people who knew the "real" Rich Piana. He even at one point mentions that "there would be no Mac Trucc without Rich Piana." Which is why we sat down with him to go into detail about how they met and perhaps get a deeper look into the man behind the influencer.

In the interview above, Mac Trucc shares with us a darker side of Rich Piana's drug addiction. There were always rumors that Piana took pain killers and opiates recreationally. But Mac Trucc pulls back the curtain on just how far the addiction went. He believes it played a large part in why Piana actually died. He even claims that he sadly knew his addiction would likely be the end of his life one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td6s...ture=emb_title

Anyone who was competing or involved in a high level of bodybuilding in the 90's lived through the Nubain crisis. Nubain is an injectable opiate agonist/antagonist that the package insert says it is as strong as morphine mg to mg. For some reason it was not a controlled substance at that point. I do not know if it os noe, know one knows about it anymore, i never see it bring sold, it used to be part of every steroid dealer's stock. In yhe late 90's everyone I knew , really, i think everyone and I knew a lot of good bodybuilders, was using Nubain. I used it when preparing for my last contest and it did make my prep the easiest one ever. I could sleep fine, i never sleep well dieting. i was high so i was always in a good mood. The problem was when the contest was over and I stopped. Went through three horrible days of withdrawal.
Others I knew, a lot and Im assuming its how Piana started, moved on to stronger opiates. Vicoden, Percocet, then Oxycontin was around and some even to heroin. A great friend of mine, a professional woman's BB started with me with Nubain and next thing I know shes getting oxycontin from a dr and crushing it and shooting it IV. She ended up killing herself about six years ago.
It was bad
I saw it destroy so many guys lives its not funny. The best thing to happen was for that drug to disappear from BB. I ask guys in their 20's and 30's now they have never heard of it.

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Anyone who was competing or involved in a high level of bodybuilding in the 90's lived through the Nubain crisis. Nubain is an injectable opiate agonist/antagonist that the package insert says it is as strong as morphine mg to mg. For some reason it was not a controlled substance at that point. I do not know if it os noe, know one knows about it anymore, i never see it bring sold, it used to be part of every steroid dealer's stock. In yhe late 90's everyone I knew , really, i think everyone and I knew a lot of good bodybuilders, was using Nubain. I used it when preparing for my last contest and it did make my prep the easiest one ever. I could sleep fine, i never sleep well dieting. i was high so i was always in a good mood. The problem was when the contest was over and I stopped. Went through three horrible days of withdrawal.
Others I knew, a lot and Im assuming its how Piana started, moved on to stronger opiates. Vicoden, Percocet, then Oxycontin was around and some even to heroin. A great friend of mine, a professional woman's BB started with me with Nubain and next thing I know shes getting oxycontin from a dr and crushing it and shooting it IV. She ended up killing herself about six years ago.
It was bad
I saw it destroy so many guys lives its not funny. The best thing to happen was for that drug to disappear from BB. I ask guys in their 20's and 30's now they have never heard of it.

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good post bro, good incite. I've heard of it but didn't know it was so prevalent back than. you only used it that one contest?