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Facing the Dragon
David ParnellAmy Hagberg
其他書名
How a Desperate Act Pulled One Addict Out of Methamphetamine Hell
出版Health Communications, Inc., 2010-12
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsPsychology / SuicidePsychology / Psychopathology / AddictionSelf-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / DrugsSelf-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / GeneralSocial Science / Disease & Health Issues
ISBN07573152329780757315237
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8JyjAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋After more than twenty-three years addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, David Parnell put an SKS assault rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger.

The blast took off half his face, yet somehow he survived. They called Parnell the "miracle man" at the Nashville hospital where he'd been pronounced clinically dead. Following an afterlife experience where he briefly experienced hell, David woke up in the hospital, and he was changed forever, both physically and emotionally.

In Facing the Dragon, readers will witness the slow, agonizing metamorphosis of a good-looking high school athlete into a violent, drug-dealing, psychotic wife beater whose children were terrified of him. In graphic detail, they will relive his suicide attempts and then walk alongside him as he endures countless surgeries to reconstruct his decimated face and learns how to cope with his hideous disfigurement.

Now thirty-nine, Parnell is clean and sober and is making the most of the second chance he's been given, bringing his message about the dangers of meth and other drugs to schools, prisons, churches, and antidrug organizations around the world as a full-time lecturer.

By experiencing the nightmare of his life-—and his brief glimpse of hell--readers will find hope and healing when facing their own life-threatening dragons.