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

Successful business owner, writer, volunteer, wife, mom, grandma, lost Christian, addict.

In October 2012, Lori Gottula was all of those things. She and her husband, Randy, had owned the only grocery store in Falls City, Nebraska, for more than twenty-two years. Lori had written feature articles for the Falls City Journal for fifteen years. The couple was very visible in the community.

To the outside world, it looked like they had it made. But Lori was suffering from a chronic back conditio...