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The Human Machine

A Journey Through Drug Addiction and Alcoholism

by Joel Berman

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A Journey Through Drug Addiction and Alcoholism

Michael “Curly” Sanford is a young man caught in a web of drugs and alcohol. A simple, happy life of adolescent leisure and adventure quickly deteriorates into an uncontrolled morass of incomprehensible demoralization as he moves from one city to another. He encounters situations with others arising out of their drunken rage, dalliance with street drugs, physical interactions and even experiences violence and death. Following the pattern of Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation, searching for his own 21st century version of “the meaning of life”, his intellectual and academic pursuits quickly become subverted by alcohol, drugs and sexual exploitation. He meets men and women from several walks of life, each facing their own demons, and sees life through the eyes of other men and women. The book moves rapidly down his path of self-destruction and has two opposing endings from which the readers may choose. He finds final solace when he realizes that, in spite of his disease of addiction, his troubles were basically of his own making and the solution lay in finally deciding to take action and work a program of recovery. His life or death depends on this. Serendipity as well as planned action struggle against one another in the life of this and every addict and alcoholic. The novel is an exciting, action-packed journey but also a meditation on drug addiction and alcoholism written by an author who has worked in the field of recovery for over thirty years.

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Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 295 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Aug 16, 2012)
ISBN10: 1432795961
ISBN13: 9781432795962
Genre: FICTION / Action & Adventure

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Joel BermanJoel Berman is a practicing surgeon and author in Southern California. He is the author of three medical books geared for the general public and 25 books of fiction and non-fiction, on subjects varying from murder mystery to historical novels and sagas. He has extensive personal and professional experience in the field of alcoholism and drug addiction and served on the Medical Board of California working with physicians in recovery from addictions. He is married and divides his time between medicine and writing.
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