Addict at Ten: How I Overcame Addiction, Poverty, and Homelessness to Become a Millionaire by 35

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Derek Steele got drunk for the first time at the age of eight. By the age of ten, he was addicted to pot, and by sixteen, he was addicted to alcohol, meth, and cocaine. He began selling drugs in junior high, dropped out of high school, and soon found himself behind bars. By the time he was twenty, he was homeless and in hiding from a vicious drug dealer who wanted him dead.With the help of God, mentors, and a twelve step program, he conquered his addictions and began rebuilding his life. In his inspiring story, Derek shares intimate details of his life, from the hopelessness of addiction to becoming the man he had always wanted to be.

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Derek Steele got drunk for the first time at the age of eight. By the age of ten, he was addicted to pot, and by sixteen, he was addicted to alcohol, meth, and cocaine. He began selling drugs in junior high, dropped out of high school, and soon found himself behind bars. By the time he was twenty, he was homeless and in hiding from a vicious drug dealer who wanted him dead.With the help of God, mentors, and a twelve step program, he conquered his addictions and began rebuilding his life. In his inspiring story, Derek shares intimate details of his life, from the hopelessness of addiction to becoming the man he had always wanted to be.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780984076093
  • Publisher: Synergy Books
  • Publication date: 2/16/2010
  • Pages: 241
  • Sales rank: 740,756
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Derek Steele is currently pursuing his mission of helping others achieve success by sharing his experience through writing and public speaking. He hopes Addict at Ten will help people understand how to keep the pain of their past from impeding their fulfillment in the future. Derek lives in Missouri City, Texas, with his wife, Becky, and their two children.

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  • Posted February 27, 2011

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    Open yourself to your past and read the message Derek is presenting in his book. A book written with a mix of his past and present soul, a soul that has found the answer to living fully in the present.

    How has your past affected your preceptions of who you are now and who you could be?

    The title of this book ADDICT at 10 immediately caught my attention. How could a 10 year old boy be an addict? Where was this child's family? How could this happen? I just had to read this book. I give Derek tons of credit for writing this book. To share his life, open up and lay it all out, his complete life, for everyone to read. This book was shocking, enlightening and even ironically funny at times. When Derek speaks about how he came face to face with some big time drug dealers by his choice of course and in the middle of these grown men in this home is this grandma just hanging out. It just brought images of my mother walking around my home in her night gown and It made me laugh. But Derek's life was not laughing matter.

    The sad reality of this book is that there are so many like Derek out in our world. Just wandering around and wondering how they got into their situation and not knowing how to get out of it. Derek wrote this book because God wanted him to tell people about how bad it was for him. But also to teach people that losing yourself, your hopes and dreams can happen to anyone. You don't need to be a drug addict for this to happen to you. It all has to do with how people process and hold onto their past experiences from their childhood. You can say that it was the crowd Derek hung around with or you can put the blame on his parents. However everyone has issues in their life due to their past, some people just have larger ones. I took this book as a matter of perception. Since truthfully how we are raised is actually how we continue to exist for the rest of our lives, until or unless we learn to change or break that cycle.

    There is one sentence Derek wrote that hangs in my mind like an open doorway. He says that you cannot begin to live in the present until you move away from yourself and do for others. In other words if you are so wrapped up in your own aches, pains and trauma, which keeps you stuck in the past, how can you even begin to help another. How can you even raise a child? I am not quoting his phrase here I just wrote what I remember. Derek found peace in his life through God and he makes it a point in his book that this is an ongoing process for him. I believe this book has a message for everyone. If it does not enlighten you then maybe your are not an open minded individual. I am rating this book on Derek's awareness, his clarity and message delivered through this book. My ratings for this book review are not about judgement. Read the book and find out what message Derek has for you and your life.

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  • Posted July 26, 2010

    Brutally honest memoir of addiction and recovery through faith

    Addict at Ten by Derek Steele is an inspiring story of overcoming terrible addictions. Derek Steele grew up in a house without affection or love. Forced to care for himself most of the time by his busy and distracted parents, he gets drunk for the first time at eight, discovers marijuana at nine, and as addicted to getting high by ten years old. That leads him down a road to harder and harder drugs from cocaine to crack, ecstasy, and more alcohol. He soon turns to theft and drug dealing to afford his habit and destroys what little relationship he had with his parents. When at the age of twenty, he crosses a drug dealer who then puts out a hit on Derek, and is about to go to prison, he has a sudden epiphany and sees the truth about the road he's been traveling and enters rehab to turn his life around. A twelve-step program introduces Derek to the Lord, and the story ends on a high note with the author married, a happy father of two, and wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Steele is unflinching in his look at his drug abuse, and the abuse he does to his body is terrifying. I've read other stories like this, but Steele offers something more in that it doesn't end with his recovery. Several years after being clean, he starts to falter and questions whether he needs to truly stay clean. He describes how his complacency almost lured him into re-addiction, but offers warning signs to stay strong. His story about overcoming addictions is inspiring and encouraging for anyone caught in addiction or who loves someone who is.

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  • Posted December 6, 2009

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    Very emotional and uplifting

    I am not that much of a reader but this book is very well written and a real tear jerker at times. God had a hand in Derek's life and he also has a hand in everyone elses. I would invite everyone to read this and if you know of anyone down on their luck this book will be an inspiration to them and a reminder that we all have value in this world.

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