American Drug Addict

a memoir

By: Brett Douglas

Narrated by: Ryan Turner

My name is Brett. I'm a college-educated man who was once a husband of 26 years with two children, three businesses, and a large home with an actual white picket fence. I'm also a drug addict. And I have a tale to tell.

My story has everything: sex, death, pain, atheism, God, jail, marriage, divorce, heresy, homosexuality, physics, traffic fatalities, computer science, video games, cinnamon toothpicks, Barry Manilow, Nine Inch Nails, pornography, breasts, used tampons, strippers, venereal disease, abortion, prostitutes, AIDS, racism, suicide, infidelity, public nudity, anti-Semitism, marijuana, alcohol, pawn shops, drug dealers, needles, acid, ecstasy, crack, heroin, pain pills, withdrawal, interventions, rehabs, product tampering, road rage, vandalism, elderly abuse, grave desecration, arson, identity theft, burglary, armed robbery, and murder.

But more importantly, it's about the despair of addiction and the absolute certainty that it can be overcome. Recovery is not simply abstinence, but a process of growing up. I spent my entire life searching for the key to long-term sobriety. I would like to share with you what I have learned.

©2017 Brett Douglas, TCA Books, LLC (P)2018 Tantor

Great read!

If you don't come away from this book with a little better understanding of how addiction works, then you've missed the whole point. I admire his honesty and truthfulness at how bad things can get, and how come choices that seem inconceivable to the adverage person make sense to someone in addiction. we all fight inner demons-- some do it big and out in open for others to judge, others hide things well and are just lucky at not getting caught.

Great Book

Everything from the beginning to the end was wonderful and will always make me understand why and how

Uneventful for sure

I don't know if it was the "stock" straight toned reader or the lack of interesting material but I didn't even finish.

A Sad Reality

A sad reality of what really happens. Drugs will tear everything apart . Wish the narrator was different but it was still good.

Cray Cray

LOVED IT ! Great story/ biography especially for anyone who has struggled with addiction!!!