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‘The disease is a motherf**ker’: How Isaac Vallie-Flagg fought his way to sobriety after a crippling drug addiction

Two years can seem like a lot of time or very little. For Isaac Vallie-Flagg, it’s a lifetime.

In January 2018, the former UFC fighter was arrested on suspicion of burglary near his home in Albuquerque, N.M. During his apprehension, police found drugs on him as well as multiple weapons including one firearm with a silencer on it. As police were putting him into the car with handcuffs on his wrists, Vallie-Flagg pleaded with them while admitting “I have a drug problem.” With candor in his voice, he then told the arresting officers “my life is f*cking not great.