Someone you love is destroying himself. Or maybe that someone is you.

You have tried everything - the conversations, the ultimatums, the

promises, the programs. You have lain awake at night asking questions

that have no answers and praying prayers that feel like they hit the

ceiling. You have watched addiction take a person you knew and replace

him with someone you don't recognize. And you have wondered, more

times than you can count, whether there is a way through this - or

whether "through" is just a word people say when they don't know what

else to offer.

This book was not written by a counselor, a clinician, or a

theologian. It was written by a man who was introduced to drugs at

thirteen, arrested at seventeen and sentenced to life in prison, and

who spent the next three decades watching addiction destroy everything

it touched - including himself.

It is a straightforward examination of what God's Word says about how

the mind turns away from God, how it turns back, and why the substance

was never the real problem. The gaze was.