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That's What Junkies Do
- Narrated by: Shanon Weaver
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
That's What Junkies Do is a brutally honest, often dark journey of one man's struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction. The story starts innocently enough in 1980's Brooklyn, NY, with a young boy, Thomas Figlioli, making a bad choice so he could gain the respect of a group of kids he looked up to and admired. Alcohol gives him the courage to be the person he always wanted to be. His fear and insecurity leaves and his lifelong struggle begins.
Being a good student, Thomas lands a scholarship to Pace University in Pleasantville, New York, where his alcohol use and hard partying ways increase with each passing day. When things start to turn sour in Pleasantville, he moves back to Brooklyn for a geographic change. It is back in his old hometown that his life starts to unravel at a steady and almost torturous pace. After losing a promising career in the financial industry, his life turns even darker, eventually being hospitalized in a psych unit for alcohol and cocaine use. Once released he immediately reverts to the same ways. Thomas's life becomes a vicious cycle of addiction, graduating to harder and more damaging drugs. There is nothing he won't do and nobody he won't hurt. When thoughts of ending it all become a better choice than living how he is, Thomas finally asks for help and gets it through a program of 12 step recovery. He comes back to life only to fall back into his old ways a few short years later.
Now, a grown man and upstanding citizen, with a career, a fiancé and people who count on him every day, Thomas secretly navigates his way through a seven-and-a-half-year struggle with various prescription medications, eventually finding his way back to recovery and the life he always prayed for when times were at their worst.
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- Happy Guy
- 23-09-22
Unbelievably believable
Just... Wow. Listened to it three times on the trot while at the gym, walking etc. Best narrator I've ever heard and a 'story' that's both sad and beautiful in its own way. Highly recommended.
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- Nicola Gerrard
- 17-04-24
Outstanding
The delivery was easy to follow, The content was wonderfully honest and relatable. The message profound and inspiring.
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- Louise arnold
- 25-02-24
amazing honesty
wow prescription drugs was never my thing but recovery and your story has shown me it doesn't matter what substance. I was on the roller coaster all the way with you. your a inspiration and a credit to the 12 step program. There is a solution, we do recover!
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- Sarah Leitch
- 22-02-22
Absolutely Fantastic! 👌🏾
I completed this within 24 hours! The narrator is just fantastically awesome, plain and simple... & the actual story itself, with the sincere truths about the terrible disease of addiction is beyond words - you will not be disappointed.
This is only the second ever review I've given for ANYTHING & I've listened/read/purchased A LOT! But I felt compelled to do so.
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- S. Rowe
- 04-11-21
Gripping
So glad I happened upon this book & placed it in my wish list to eventually purchase.
A Beautifully narrated autobiography. This listen brought me to tears in places as I could literally feel his pain and the torment that is addiction.
A reminder that no matter how low someone’s life gets there’s always hope!
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- C Dubb
- 22-11-21
Eye opening and real
Loved it, great narration, almost diary like biography. The struggle with addiction and relapses have you rooting for him.
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- Sharon
- 07-01-22
Heart Wrenching
Loved the honesty humour and insight.
The narrator was fantastic.
So much admiration for Thomas and his mother must be a diamond as heartbreaking to watch your children spiral out of control and you are helpless to stop it.
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- Kholds73
- 05-08-22
fantastic
Great book if you have ever been in his shoes . I recommend it highly
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- Pen Name
- 21-01-24
Harrowing and mostly convincing, but...
I’m really glad that this person escaped their various addictions: gambling, alcohol, coke, opiods.
I sincerely mean that. I wish him well.
The stories are harrowing and mostly convincing.
But inevitably in the latter parts of the narrative, ‘god’ arrives and tries – unsuccessfully at first – to save him, ‘god’ prevails in the end though, phew.
So, in spite of the world-wide daily mass slaughter of innocents, the school shootings, all the painful terminal illnesses people are forced to suffer, this ‘god’ had the time to sort out the life of some random junkie.
Is that the premise? Seriously?
Hey, whatever gets you through the night. If it works, it works.
But maybe don’t share this nonsense.
The narrator is really good.
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