The Fifth Vital

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.