The following is an excerpt from my new book entitled:

"The Dopeless Hope Fiend"

"Veteran Police Officer Becomes Homeless Drug Addict Before Finding Redemption After Near Death Experience"

I hope that you find it inspirational.

There was once an addict that was stuck in a deep hole. A doctor came along. The addict explained his situation to the doctor and the doctor wrote out a perscription, threw it down to the addict and walked away. Shortly thereafter a priest walked by. When the addict asked the priest for help the priest wrote out a prayer, threw it down to the addict and walked away. A recovering addict soon came along and after hearing of the addict's plight, the recovering addict jumped into the hole with the addict. The addict said,"What are you doing? Now we are both stuck. We'll never get out of here alive." The recovering addict then said, "It's OK. I've been down here before and I know the way out. Follow me.

I wrote "The Dopeless Hope Fiend" for the purpose of sharing my experience, strength, faith and hope so that another addict may find the way out of the deep hole of addiction in which we dwell.

My story is no different from the story of any other addict that's been down in that hole. We tried tunneling out, climbing out, some of us even tried to fly out of the hole but we found that the walls were too dense to tunnel; they were too slippery to climb and no matter how much we flapped our arms, we failed to rise after hitting bottom.

Friends and family members tried to "fix" us and some of us stopped drinking and doping for a time. We followed their perscriptions as we] attempted to answer their prayers. But before long we realized that thew were not familiar enough with the ailment to write the proper perscription, and only God can answer prayers.

Most of us became way too comfortable sitting in that hole and we made the hole our home. We decorated the hole with artwork, furniture and even obtained cable TV for the hole until we discovered that the longer we stayed in the hole, the deeper became our bottom.

Out of desperation we asked for help and God sent angels that jumped into the hole with us. Angels that showed us the way out of the hole.

The angels showed us the path to recovery and we used the road map so as to avoid falling into one of the other holes that litter the path.

Among the greatest of the gifts that we were given is the gift of hope. Hope is the reason that we get out of bed in the morning. It gives us the motivation to face any task with confidence and vigor.

Hope is an extension of our Faith that God will fulfill his promises

We see things very differently now. The hole offered a very narrow view of the world outside of it. now that  we are out, we can see to the horizon in all directions.

As the days passed and we became more and more familiar with the path, we see other addicts that are stuck in the same deep holes that we were in. We jump in and show them the way out and they are greatful.

Soon, they are jumping in to guide their fellows and this wonderful chain continues.

We find it important to br patient with ourselves. We did not become addicts in one day, one week, or one month. It took many years of practice and training to perfect the art of being a dope fiend.

Recovery is not an event. It is a process

If you think that you are an addict and want to find your way out of that hole, call me. I'm ready to jump in.

Mike G

510.860.7736

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