Sviokla, Sylvester, III & Kerry Zukus. From Harvard to Hell…and Back: A Doctor’s Journey Through Addiction to Recovery. Central Recovery. 2013. 184p. ISBN 9781937612290. $16.95; ebk. ISBN 9781937612306. MEMOIR Sviokla, a Harvard...
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Dr. Sylvester “Skip” Sviokla, III, M.D. with Kerry Zukus . Central Recovery (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-937612-29-0 Sviokla, a recovered drug addict and alcoholic, today runs a successful clinic...
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Books about drug addiction and recovery took an awful beating several years ago when “A Million Easy Pieces” became a best seller, only to be ignominiously exposed as fiction. It not only embarrassed the people who recommended it to people in...
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I was a practicing Emergency Medicine Physician who had been blessed with just about every gift a person could desire. I had gone to Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. Although diverted from my original desire to become a General Surgeon...
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