'Meth Monster: Crankin' Thru Life'

Former Meth Addict Shares Painful Past in Gripping New Autobiography

"To say I loved meth is an understatement," writes D. C. Fuller. "For several decades, my life and everything in it revolved around meth use. Under its influence, anything was probable."

In his eye-opening new book, "Meth Monster: Crankin' thru life - A look into the abyss of an American drug pandemic" (published by AuthorHouse - http://www.authorhouse.com), Fuller recalls a life spent under the influence of amphetamines in vivid detail.

The child of a late '50s middle-class family, Fuller exhibited behavioral problems from a very young age:
By the age of five I was forbidden to play with the other kids or be in their yards because I was such a bad influence and continually caused one disaster after another ... [I was] shoved through a school system that simply allowed me to scrape by for the sake of getting me the hell outta their hair, resulting in an underwhelmingly non-directional, bound for failure, sworn to fun, loyal to none, party till ya puke, lunatic.
Fuller proceeded to spiral further and further downward as the years progressed. "Meth Monster" highlights the low points of a life dedicated to methamphetamine. By the time he was 39 years old, Fuller had spent over half of his natural life living outside the law and the norms society imposes on itself, under the influence of meth.

"After wasting 39 years of my life wandering aimlessly from bag to bag with only the next party as the driving force, destination unknown, I woke for the second time to emptiness, took stock of the nothingness (easy to do when your whole life fits in a rusted out van, with room to spare) and made a choice," Fuller writes.

Fuller realized that something had to give and drove away from the place he had thought he would spend the rest of his life. Two thousand miles away, in the only place he knew someone who wasn't using, Fuller stopped, "out of dope, luck and hope."

It took much more than he ever imagined, but Fuller eventually loosened the grip that meth had on his life. After overcoming his addiction, however, he had to wrestle with many years of detoxification, withdrawal and depression. Giving up meth didn't just mean quitting a drug; it meant quitting the only way of living he'd known his entire adult life.

Finally, after 12 years of being clean, Fuller is able to share his powerful story and tell the world about the all-consuming vacuum of meth addiction, and the "life and lives wasted in pursuit of that eternal buzz."

"With 40 million meth addicts in this country and thousands joining their ranks every day, meth has now invaded every town and is working on every home in not only this country, but around the world," writes Fuller.