Millionaire Junkie
Jason Peter, Tony O'Neill
  • Published: 20 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781780572147
  • Imprint: Mainstream Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Millionaire Junkie

My Journey Down to Heroin - and Back

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A harrowing true story of how the American Dream can turn sour

Blighted by a neck injury at a young age, sports superstar Jason Peter was forced to retire prematurely. In just a few short years, Peter's brilliant career was in ruins as he found himself consumed by painkillers, then crack and finally heroin. His addiction transformed him from a pumped-up athletic gladiator to a small, wispish shell of his former self.

In Millionaire Junkie, Peter tells of the lost days and nights spent prowling the streets of Manhattan, flying cross-country with high-class call girls and doing piles of heroin and cocaine. It is a visceral, ragged-edged story of true glory, self-destruction, addiction and, finally, redemption.
  • Published: 20 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781780572147
  • Imprint: Mainstream Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the authors

Jason Peter

Jason Peter was an NFL first-round draft pick by the Carolina Panthers, where he played for five years. He is now married and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he co-hosts a radio programme for ESPN.

Tony O'Neill

Tony O'Neill is a poet and novelist, whose books include Digging the Vein and Songs from the Shooting Gallery. He lives in New York.

Praise for Millionaire Junkie

A portrait of a red-blooded jock as monster dope fiend . . . had Hunter Thompson been a football player instead of a fan, this is the book he'd have written

Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight and I, Fatty

An unflinching look at the dark side of a life devoted to pleasure . . . the book's power lies in his honesty in detailing the depths of his despair from seeking the next high

Publishers Weekly

A bleak if compelling read, but has a genuinely uplifting ending

Maxim

Peter's cautionary tale of success, stardom and the pressures of fame transcends continents and sport . . . stark and honest, it paints a bleak picture of drug addiction but offers salvation in the way he finally turned his life around

News of the World
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