Drunks, Monks and Mental Illness: . . . Based on a Lie

This book tells the story of recovery after taking the reader through the roots of the addiction and the journey it caused.

Often, I am asked, "What led you to recovery?" or "How did you recover?" I think, unless you are an addict, you don't really understand completely the concept that addiction is a brain disease. The symptoms of this disease include obsessive thinking, compulsions, the phenomenon of craving, rationalization, minimization and intellectualization. It is hard for me to expla...