Publisher's Synopsis
Pain, Addiction, and Victory is the story of one man's courage to walk away from a lifestyle of homelessness and addiction, and in the end he celebrates with victory the freedom from meth. The book details thirty-one years of his survival on the streets as a meth addict and includes raw, genuine, and unfiltered stories of his adventures. Some have called it the miracle book. Some have said they have never seen a man go down as low as he did hitting rock bottom and coming back up again. All the stories are true and not fictional. The author exposes his addictive personality, his desperation for the drug, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolar mental illness in order to demonstrate how far an addict will go to keep the drug in their life. Ninety percent of the people he used with have all passed due to the devastation the ugly lifestyle brings. Addiction is such a cunning enemy of life and if the author can help someone put an end to their own addiction, he feels he has done his job.
"I had gotten clean from 1990-2001, but went back to using 2001-2011. Telling my story is huge for me; it makes my life worth living. I want my grandkids to know that I wasn't always a loser. I feel I was kept on this earth for a reason and that is to educate young people about the horrible effects of drug addiction. Since I've been clean and sober, I've given many talks to high schools, and it's my life ambition. I had given up on life and decided that I was just going to be that too-much-fun guy and that's it. If life wasn't fun, I didn't want to be a part of it, but if there was fun and it felt good, I did it. I found out later the reason why I was so obsessive compulsive was that I have that disorder! That's what's been wrong with me all my life - obsessive compulsive disorder, in addition to being bipolar and having PTSD... until I turned my life around."
