Crazy Town: Money. Marriage. Meth.

· Kallisti Publishing
4.3
28 reviews
Ebook
267
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A riveting personal account and a thorough global history of methamphetamine abuse and addiction.

Sterling Braswell was a millionaire—palatial ranch, stock options, and money in the bank. Then he met his high school sweetheart after not seeing her for over ten years. With their love rekindled, they were married.

Life was beautiful. They had no real worries, a lovely son, and a bright future.

Then she started using meth.

The craziness of the next few years would leave Sterling almost completely broke—financially, emotionally, and spiritually—and nearly murdered.

Welcome to crazy town . . .

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4.3
28 reviews
Doe Boyd
October 17, 2017
The idea of trying to combine the real facts of drugs, drug users and drug manufacturers with a personal story of drug use invading a family at first sounds like a good mix. Unfortunately it ends up watering down both stories so they lose their impact. Still an OK read.
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YoungHackAttack _
March 7, 2013
Amazing & informative. BRAVE AUTHOR! He opens up his personal life in hopes to spread a message. His first hand account is heartbreaking but he has left such a positive impact from his losses as he uses his personal experience mixed with his humanity and it strikes in a way that is truly empowering to the tragically (and commonly) un/mis informed part of society. I'm studying to be a substance abuse counselor but all can benefit! Read it, you or a loved one will likely face this some day! Hope 4 book #2!
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Heatherley Peckham
August 29, 2018
An insightful and honest account of one man's journey through the afflictions of meth. Once nieve until lesson after relentless lesson is learned the author takes you on a trip to what he learned is Crazy Town. Intelligently and creatively written. The voice of pain and comedy ring through the pages with utter applause! Bravo Sir I am thoroughly entertained!
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About the author

 My qualifications for telling the personal story will become all too clear in the early chapters, but the reader may wonder by what authority I recount the history of meth. After all, my background is in software. The truth is that I began this book in the first place because at the time I initially became aware of the nightmare unfolding right under my nose, there was very little accessible information on methamphetamine. America had not yet awakened to the enormity of the problem, and even the so-called experts – the doctors, the licensed chemical dependency counselors, and (especially) the law enforcement professionals – knew very little about it. These were the people I initially turned to for help, which they were more often than not unable to give.

So I set out to do my own research, and, this being the information age, it was not, as they say, rocket science. At the risk of sounding a bit elitist myself, if a sub-literate, dentally deficient bumpkin can master the delicate and dangerous chemistry of meth production, is it not conceivable that a reasonably well-educated software professional could look up some facts about the product?

I wrote this book because I strongly believe it tells a story that needs to be told. It is an open-ended tale, still unfolding on both the personal and global fronts, even as I write this. But from my perspective, it does have a clear beginning.

The story begins close to home, with someone who was once very close to me. I won’t begin with “once upon a time,” as it has been thoroughly used up. And the vote is still out on whether a “happily ever after” will ever come to pass.

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