Don't Count Me Out
eBook - ePub

Don't Count Me Out

A Baltimore Dope Fiend's Miraculous Recovery

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Don't Count Me Out

A Baltimore Dope Fiend's Miraculous Recovery

About this book

Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs, to his miraculous recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilitation field.

Rafael Alvarez's recounting of White's journey should inspire those dealing with the fallout of addiction. Alvarez, a journalist and screenwriter, allows the reader to get inside the head of an addict who was stealing alcohol from his parents at the age of nine, selling drugs and tripping on LSD and PCP by the time he hit seventh grade, and hooked on morphine before he turned fifteen. "Bruce White? I thought he was dead?" is a response encountered in many of the interviews Alvarez conducted.

Don't Count Me Out shines a spotlight on an improbable and stunning miracle. Though this is just one person's story, the contributing factors of early sexual assault, the role of permissive preoccupied parents, and the need for peer approval, among others, will resonate with many as the opioid crisis continues to haunt us.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Introduction: Anybody Can
  3. 1 The Most Interesting Book the Old Man Had Ever Read
  4. 2 Birth / School: Before It Got Ugly
  5. 3 Skipping Stones / Getting Stoned: Grade School
  6. 4 Failing the Seventh Grade
  7. 5 Ninth Grade in the Psych Ward (Until They Threw Him Out)
  8. 6 Last Chance High: The Baltimore Experimental High School
  9. 7 Spanish Harlem: There Could Have Been Blood
  10. 8 Big Fucking Indian
  11. 9 Bonnie and Clyde
  12. 10 Shootout on Ready
  13. 11 The Stolen Carpet and the Fat Girl: State of Maryland Inmate No. 215–799, March 1991 to August 1994
  14. 12 Misadventure En Route to the Underworld: 1995 through 1998
  15. 13 Frank White / Inmate Junkie
  16. 14 Free to Go
  17. 15 Third Time a Charm
  18. 16 College / Career / Shirt and Tie
  19. 17 One Promise
  20. 18 The D Train
  21. Epilogue: A Day in His Best Life, Thanksgiving Weekend 2020
  22. Acknowledgments