Thank you. Everybody welcome to Dr. your podcast, appreciate your support the people that support us, including our guest,

when they promote their books.

Today's guest is no exception as William Moyers.

He has a new book.

First book, which I do suggest you get also is called Broken. It's his memoir.

That was his first book but there's some new life gets lived and he gets

chronicles gonna hear now in a new book called Broken Open.

His journey into the 19 years since Broken, which is really interesting to me.

Of course, Wayne Moyers, the VP of Public Affairs for Hazleton Betty Ford Foundation.

He has been a leader and a champion in the recovering community for a long time.

There's always a lot for he and I to talk about.

So William, thank you for being here.

Oh, Drew, thanks for having me. Thank you for letting me carry this message to

your audience. So let's start with, I guess we just start with Broken so you can sketch what's in Broken and then let's get on into Broken Open,

which would be available in September by the way.

Yeah, yeah. So I wrote Broken in 2005, 2006. It was my first book, a memoir. You know how hard it is to write books.

But I had a journalism background and so I wrote my book that was really a story about addiction and redemption, which is typically

what most addiction memoirs are, right? You go down and then you go up and you live happily ever after. But I wrote that book and it was very

popular as a New York Times bestseller and it really chronicled what it was like to grow up in a family of means and prominence my father the journalist Bill Moyers

He and my mother still living 70 years married. Wow. Wow all that stuff on and yet I had a brain that was susceptible to substances. I smoked marijuana as a teenager in the 70s and 15 years later and living in a crack house and dying in a crack house in Harlem.

That was that story, Drew.

Basically, what happens when addiction takes over?

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