"Now that you are 18, you're going to skull 18 glasses of wine."
That is how my 25-year descent into hell with alcohol started. Over half my lifetime. I had watched my parents drink their life away throughout my childhood, and hated it. Yet, I followed the exact same path.
This book is my life story, from my student years until the collapse of my family.
It is the account of how dependency sneaked in. It is the real-life story of shame, lies, sadness, the loss of self-control, how alcohol impacted my personal and professional life, and the failed attempts to quit, until the one spur that led me to cold turkey.
"This wonderful story should not only inspire those afflicted by the disease of alcoholism, but also educate those closest to him, and the public at large." Pr Laurent Karila, French addictologist and psychiatrist, spokesman of the association SOS Addictions.
This story is the testimony of a man who does not claim he knows how to cure an illness that is still not completely understood, regardless of its prevalence in our society. But this book does convey a message of hope and positivism.