The Fifth Vital
By Mike Majlak & Riley J. Ford
- Release Date: 2020-05-05
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
Mike Majlak was a seventeen-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.
Reviews
Read this book if opioid addiction is in your life to any capacity
5By Yo to 1Really rang true. This man speaks truthMikes the Schmidt
5By HTF4x4I’ve been watching mike since he met Logan and through all that I spent the last 6 years in his old school and am glad to say I’m 169 days 100% sober and this book was amazingThank You!
5By CMONG11Your words of wisdom have helped a lot of people. Thank you for sharing your experience! Thank you for sharing the ups and down and the battles you faced and still face and how you overcome them daily! Also thanks for giving my wife a shout out on twitch! cmong11 #buddyforlifeWow
5By shout out debbyPhenomenalWell told and great crazy experiences
5By Kingvic02I enjoyed reading all the experiences Mike went through and had to overcome. I watch a lot of Impaulsive (Logan Paul’s podcast) which the Co-host is Mike and reading this book allowed me to understand him on another level. Thanks for the book mike was a pleasure to hear your story.Thoughts
5By ksvs is hwksvkI finished the book and it’s a really interesting story about Mike and how far he had come from the drug addiction to the media success. I highly recommend it for allPotential Movie
5By Occoo33Great story definitely would make a remarkable movie. Just reviewing to support Mike!Best book
5By iadaan15I don’t know what to say I have so much to say but oh my ducking god it’s so good like whatAmazing
5By bdetesbest book i’ve ever read. truly inspiring.Excellent work
5By Thynes18You and I come from the same place, Mike. Thank you for sending me the message that anytning is possible.