Portrait of an Addict is a brutally honest account of my life which included substance abuse. I started using drugs, as a teenager, to escape the control of my mentally ill mother and physically abusive father. Struggling with life I make numerous attempts at sobriety. I would see people come into Alcoholics Anonymous and pull their lives together and I couldn't understand why I couldn't. It would take me years to realize and comprehend I was mentally ill. I went through many relationships and lost everything and everyone I loved. I would, marry a wealthy man that molested his daughter, a...