From Harvard to Hell...and Back (eBook)

A Doctor's Journey through Addiction to Recovery

Sylvester Sviokla, Kerry Zukus (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
260 Seiten
Central Recovery Press, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-937612-30-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A Harvard doctor loses everything but his life, which he now spends bringing the message of recovery to other addicts.

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A Harvard-educated doctor loses everything, but gains his life. Now he bring the message of recovery to other addicts.Dr. Sylvester Skip Sviokla lived life as a successful, driven, athletic, and brilliant graduate of Harvard Medical School, reveling in wealth and glamour as a celebrity doctor until addiction brought his life crashing down. This real-life Dr. House had it all (he thought) until addiction took everything. Miraculously, recovery gave him back his family, his self-respect, and much more.The media is filled with celebrity addiction stories, so people will be drawn to the authors experience as a doctor to the stars. Having attended the most famous university and medical school in the world, Dr. Svioklas story will also be relevant to a larger audience, including medical professionals and those seeking answers about addiction.Sylvester Skip Sviokla III, MD, is a 1967 graduate of Harvard College (where he was a two-year starter on the football team, culminating in his receiving one vote for the 1966 Heisman Trophy and an offer to try out for the Chicago Bears) and a 1972 graduate of Harvard Medical School. He was owner and medical director of Skip Sviokla Entertainment Medicine, Inc. and of Medical Weight Management, Inc., in Massachusetts.Kerry Zukus is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied composition and arranging while appearing as an actor in theaters all over New England.

Inhalt

Foreword by Jon E. Grant, MD

Chapter One: Pills on the Floor
Chapter Two: Golden Boy
Chapter Three: First Failure
Chapter Four: The Deepest Cut
Chapter Five: Doctor to the Stars
Chapter Six: Fat People, Fat Wallets
Chapter Seven: Idle Hands, Bulging with Cash
Chapter Eight: Mr. Skip
Chapter Nine: Down in the Gutter, Up on the Roof
Chapter Ten: On the Road to Rhode Island
Chapter Eleven: The Rebirth of Dr. Skip
Chapter Twelve: Epilogue and Resources

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
• Schlagworte: Addiction Recovery • Behavioral Health • drug dependency • Healing • Memoir • Twelve-step programs
• ISBN-10: 1-937612-30-9 / 1937612309
• ISBN-13: 978-1-937612-30-6 / 9781937612306