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The Fifth Vital

Written by: Mike Majlak, Riley J. Ford
Narrated by: Mike Majlak
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USA Today best-selling book!

Mike Majlak was a 17-year-old from a loving middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting Oxycontin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends.

Unable to escape the noose of addiction, he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever loved him. Alone, with nothing but drugs to keep him company, darkness closed in, and the light inside him - the last flicker of hope - began to dim. His dreams, potential, and future were all being devoured by a relentless addiction too powerful to fight.

Despair filled him as he realized he wasn't going to survive. Somehow, he did. He not only survived, he thrived. Now, he's a social media personality with millions of followers and an entrepreneur, marketer, podcaster, YouTuber, and author who hopes to use his voice to shine a light for those whose own lights have grown dim. This is his story.

©2020 Mike Majlak and Riley J. Ford (P)2020 Mike Majlak and Riley J. Ford
Addiction & Recovery Entertainment & Celebrity Addiction Memoirs

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AMAZING READ

I have nothing to say. it's and amazing read. thanks for this Mike Majlak ❤️

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Loved it Mike✌️

I could connect with his story so much as I was an addict too and has been a man with wrong choices all my life.

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It's lies? Maybe.

Lot of people are claiming this book is made up with stories gathered from other people's lives. It could be true. The story of Ashley Kauffman is strongly similar to this real incident in 2012. Dates are changed by Mike but he can say anything under the pretext of disclaimers.
https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2015/03/man_who_witness_said_shot_hero.html

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