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From very cheap to recovery?the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering struggle with dependency and the hard-won fight for recovery
William Cope Moyers has come a long, good way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house. His father had put together a search party. His worried family waited at home where Moyers had left them when he embarked on just one more binge. From that lowly, drug-hazed night, Moyers went on to be an executive at the Hazelden Foundation and travels all over to talk about dependency and treatment.
Broken tells the story of what happened between then and today?from growing in the privileged son of Bill Moyers to his descent into alcoholism and drug addiction, his numerous stabs at getting clean, his many relapses, and exactly how he were able to survive. Harrowing and wrenching, Broken paints an image of a man with every advantage who nonetheless found himself spiraling into a dark and life-threatening abyss. But unlike other memoirs of its kind, Broken emerges into the clear light of Moyers?s recovery as he dedicates his life to changing the politics of addiction. Beautifully written with a deep underlying spirituality, this is a missive of hope for the scores of Americans struggling with addiction?and an honest and inspiring account that proves the spiritual insight that we are strongest at the broken places.
