Broken and Chained: My First Thirty Days in the Hell Called Detox

In 2012,

Lori L. Gottula

was a wife, mom, grandma, successful business owner, community leader—and opiate addict. She became dependent upon painkillers because of a chronic back condition, but is proof that opioid addiction can happen to anyone, even those who wear the most convincing of masks. Addiction is a national epidemic that knows no social or economic boundaries.

Broken and Chained: My First Thirty Days in the Hell Called Detox

shows, in gut-wrenching detail, Gottula’s freefall to ro...