Man In Hole: Love, Lies, Addiction, and Butting Porcupines

by Doug Dodd

Overview

The author's love affair with drugs began the summer of 1967 with marijuana. Three years later he was on the run from the police. His life became a downward spiral of lies, betrayal and denial as he ran from Missoula, Montana, to Portland, Oregon, and finally, in 1995, to Yakima, Washington. There, at fifty years old, he found himself living on the streets, addicted to crack cocaine, hopeless, helpless and useless. Clearly his ‘geographical cures' were not working. When he fled north to Alaska in January of 2001, only a fool would have expected what followed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594338076
Publisher:	Publication Consultants
Publication date:	07/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	748 KB

About the Author

Doug Dodd was raised deep in the mountains of western Montana, on his family's isolated homestead, by devout Baptist parents who taught him to work hard and always tell the truth. He attended a one-room, red-brick grade school and in 1968 received a degree in history and political science from the University of Montana. He worked as a ditch digger, logger, and gandy dancer, before becoming a manager with a large municipal water system. After nearly twenty years of rationalizing his drug use as “recreational” he began smoking crack cocaine. By 1995 his job and family were gone; he was buried in debt, homeless, and living in a rescue mission. All that changed and today he volunteers as a counselor at a local, non-profit food pantry, where he meets people whose needs go beyond food. He lives in Homer, Alaska with his wife, Joan, author of Cow Woman of Akutan.