White Rabbit a Doc Story of He

by Martha A. Morrison

Book Overview

The harrowing true story of Morrison's 17 dark years of alcoholism and drug addiction and her arduous struggle back to health. The author has appeared on Donahue, Today, and Good Morning America. 30 photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517568160
• ISBN13: 9780517568163
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A starkly honest look at a physician addict

Morrision's book should be required reading for all medical students. Here she was - first a straight A student, then voted resident of the year, and finally a well-thought of psychiatrist,when she was in the midst of a horrendous alcohol and drug addiction that had been going on for years. I work with physicians who are addicts, and she paints a dark portrait of them: they, unlike the rest of us, can just write themselves all the prescriptions they want, until they are stopped. And then it is like a runaway mack truck hitting a massive brick wall. She also is great at laying out all the reasons (excuses) for her drinking/drugging: people don't understand individuals like her, she is so far above the rest of us, so creative, so brilliant, so . . . fill in the blank. And, finally, when she is confronted, she does undergo treatment successfully, and describes what that is like, the difficulties and the triumphs. A marvelous book; it is the only one I know written from the perspective of a formerly drug-addicted physician.