Fifth Vital

<p>Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving middle-class family in Milford Connecticut when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college buying homes getting married having kids and leading normal lives Mike was snorting OxyContin climbing out of cars at gunpoint and burying his childhood friends. Unable to escape the noose of addiction he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever loved him. Alone with nothing but drugs to keep him company darkness closed in and the light inside him-the last flicker of hope-began to dim. His dreams potential and future were all being devoured by a relentless addiction too powerful to fight. Despair filled him as he realized he wasn't going to survive.</p><p><br></p><p>Somehow he did...</p><p><br></p><strong>HE NOT ONLY SURVIVED </strong></p><strong> </strong></p><strong>HE THRIVED.</strong></p><p><br></p><p> Now he's a social media personality with millions of followers and an entrepreneur marketer podcaster YouTuber and author who hopes to use his voice to shine a light for those whose own lights have grown dim.</p><p><br></p><p>This is his story.</p>