The Fifth Vital
“The Fifth Vital is a must-read for any individual or family struggling to get answers, find insight, and take a realistic look under the hood of addiction in America. Everyone needs a copy of this.”
Dr. Robin Barnett, Ed.D., L.C.S.W., L.C.A.D.C., CSAT, CCS - Behavioral health and addiction expert for MTV, CNN, HLN, NBC, FOX, ABC
An iBooks bestseller in Audiobooks
A USA Today bestseller
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.
Praise