The Fifth Vital - Mike Majlak & Riley J. Ford

The Fifth Vital

By Mike Majlak & Riley J. Ford

  • Release Date: 2020-05-05
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 5
5
From 764 Ratings

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

    5
    By Yo to 1
    Really rang true. This man speaks truth
  • Mikes the Schmidt

    5
    By HTF4x4
    I’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 amazing
  • Thank You!

    5
    By CMONG11
    Your 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 #buddyforlife
  • Wow

    5
    By shout out debby
    Phenomenal
  • Well told and great crazy experiences

    5
    By Kingvic02
    I 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

    5
    By ksvs is hwksvk
    I 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 all
  • Potential Movie

    5
    By Occoo33
    Great story definitely would make a remarkable movie. Just reviewing to support Mike!
  • Best book

    5
    By iadaan15
    I don’t know what to say I have so much to say but oh my ducking god it’s so good like what
  • Amazing

    5
    By bdetes
    best book i’ve ever read. truly inspiring.
  • Excellent work

    5
    By Thynes18
    You and I come from the same place, Mike. Thank you for sending me the message that anytning is possible.