A Bridge to the Mainland

<p><br></p><p>This book is not just about me. It's about life relationships with parents siblings children and friends. It's about addictions it's about you and most importantly it's about change. I will be surprised if you can't find yourself somewhere in this book. I promise you at the end of the book life will seem easier. It's about taking back control of your life not letting drugs alcohol or people have control of you.</p><p>I am not a celebrity. I am a regular person who became addicted to drugs because I didn't have the courage or the knowledge to take charge of my life and to be positive. A large well-known medical center in the southeast took me on as a case history. I learned so much from Dr. D and Dr. Arielle Kogan and the other medical staff and want to share it with you.</p><p>In the book I tell what it feels like to be addicted to opioids. I talk about going through withdrawal and counseling and what happens in group therapy and I share private counseling as well. I have changed the names of the patients family members and friends as not to cause embarrassment. I am not using my real name.</p><p>I wrote the initial draft of this book forty-three years ago when everything was fresh in my mind. I put the book on the shelf and there it lay for forty-three years collecting dust as there was no ending and the time was not right. Now with the opioid crisis the time is right and the book now has a happy and surprising ending.</p>