Download or read book A Life of Kayos written by Chekesha Kay Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's said that in America every 11 minutes, another life is lost to an opioid overdose. But not everybody dies. Living with the addiction is harder. This epidemic affects old and young, rich and poor. It stretches across genders, races and state lines, both the religious and the agnostics. Can you believe it? Ask Chekesha 'Kay' Ellis, an amazing young girl who sang in the church choir growing up, but found herself giving birth to a son in the back of an ambulance. Growing up in New Jersey, Kay Ellis was living well: a top-notch new job, the most expensive clothes, and being a model came with many friends and an amazing social calendar. But at 24, she had an accident and started using opioids for pain. What began as treatment became an unleashed pimp and prostitute relationship within herself with this new drug. This was the start of the addiction. The monster within, now known as substance abuse disorder. In this prequel to her forthcoming unapologetic memoir, Chekesha 'Kay' Ellis gives us a glimpse into the trappings of opioids. She opens up about her background and early life in church. She shares about getting into modeling, being beautiful and staying beautiful and how in a moment your life can change - for the worst. She was deaf and couldn't hear the cries of her new baby. Could the incentives provided to doctors by pharmaceutical companies have led to the opioid crisis we see today? How did a former model become a pill hustler and junky, simultaneously? Is it possible to come back from a dead place and really live? You've got to read this first installment from Chekesha 'Kay' Ellis - the woman, the model, the disc jockey, the survivor. This short read introduces you to the epidemic from the inside. It's just enough to whet your appetite for her full expose, coming soon. A Life of Kayos: My Opioid Journey through Hell, Hope and Healing is mesmerizing, revealing and necessary.

Download or read book A Life of Kayos written by Ashley Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's said that every 11 minutes another life in America is lost to an opioid overdose. But not everybody dies. Living with addiction can be harder. What's now an epidemic of pain pills and controlled substances affects old and young, rich and poor. It stretches across genders, races, state lines, and religions. Growing up in PA, Kay was a fashion model, living well with a top-notch new job, the most expensive clothes, many friends, and an amazing social calendar. But at 27 she had an accident and started using prescription opioids for pain without being educated of the risks. What began as treatment became a decade of deception and disaster as she joined the millions of casualties in the opioid epidemic. Her fall was the start of addiction, the monster within, and substance use disorder. Her determination was the start of opioid recovery, the will within, now her desire to serve her community and bring hope to those personally struggling or loving someone struggling with addiction and opioid abuse. Lorcet 10/650 contained hydrocodone (an opioid pain reliever) and acetaminophen (an analgesic pain reliever like Tylenol) that blocked pain receptors in the brain and became more widely prescribed by doctors beginning in the 1990s, before information was widely available about its risks and side effects. Could the incentives provided to doctors by pharmaceutical companies have led to the opioid crisis we see today? How did a hard-working, compassionate, licensed therapeutic support staff become a pill hustler addicted to prescription pain killers? Is it possible to come back from a dead place and really live? You've got to read this brief memoir from Kay Ellis- the woman, the model, the disc jockey, the survivor. This short read personally introduces you to the epidemic from the inside, to just how easily a person can slip from upstanding citizen to desperate prescription drug abuser. A Life of Kayos: My Opioid Journey through Hell, Hope & Healing is memorable, revealing, and necessary. Kay works with: *Mobilize Recovery which trains people to advocate within their own communities. They work with people in recovery, harm reductionists, families and allies impacted by substance use. Anyone who wants to make a difference in their community on drug policy and recovery advocacy. Their initiative is a response to the ongoing drug epidemic, which is the biggest public health crisis of our time. MobilizeRecovery.org *Recovery Advocacy Project as a NJ State Lead for a network of people and organizations across the country advocating and training on local, grassroots levels for addiction recovery policies. RecoveryVoices.com *Shatterproof as a Volunteer Ambassador, a national nonprofit dedicated to reversing the addiction crisis in the United States. It works to eradicate stigmas associated with substance use disorder or addiction. Shatterproof.org *Inclusivity Caucus, an organization that is working to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive safe space for individuals from all pathways of recovery, including harm reduction. Through Inclusivity Caucus BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), LGBTQIA+, and people living with disabilities are invited to the table to voice the need for culture change within the recovery community. Members work together and create change in the recovery community where all forms of diversity are seen and valued. She is the founder of ChaseNoMore.org which serves as a bridge to help people across America by pointing them to resources that can assist with treatment and recovery. Visit her website and request one on one consultation or invite her to speak at your event.

Download or read book My Book of Life by Angel written by Martine Leavitt and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen-year-old Angel meets Call at the mall, he buys her meals and says he loves her, and he gives her some candy that makes her feel like she can fly. Pretty soon she's addicted to his candy, and she moves in with him. As a favor, he asks her to hook up with a couple of friends of his, and then a couple more. Now Angel is stuck working the streets at Hastings and Main, a notorious spot in Vancouver, Canada, where the girls turn tricks until they disappear without a trace, and the authorities don't care. But after her friend Serena disappears, and when Call brings home a girl who is even younger and more vulnerable than her to learn the trade, Angel knows that she and the new girl have got to find a way out.

Download or read book The Changing of the Guard written by Roel C. Nedd and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intent of the heart. (Hebrew 4:12) THE WAR AGAINST RULING SPIRITS The CURSE MUST BREAK! DEMONS SHALL FLEE OR BE UPROOTED DEMON SHATTERING PRAYER POINTS THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD IS AN INSPIRED, INSPIRATIONAL, INFLUENTIAL, STUDY MANUAL AND A WITNESSING AND DELIVERANCE TOOL THAT EMPHASIZES THE NECESSITY FOR SPIRITUAL REFORM. IT GRANTS GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF SALVATIONS PLAN AND HELPS BELIEVERS TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE AND TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE AS IT IS WRITTEN. MANY SHALL BE PULLED OUT OF THE DUMPSTER BEING GIVEN A FUTURE AND A HOPE. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain. (Isaiah 40:4)

Download or read book Anatomy of a Girl Gang written by Ashley Little and published by Arsenal Pulp Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, intense novel told in multiple voices about five members of a teenage girl gang.

Download or read book Person and Community written by Kwasi Wiredu and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Life written by David L. Cook and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about love, life, and humanity. You will read some things that may make you cry. You will also read some things that will make you laugh until your stomach hurts. There are some serious and there are some humorous topics. You will read some fiction and some nonfiction, and you wont want to put it down. I have written over 1,000 articles, songs, poems, and short stories and also have produced three albums and wrote the lyrics. I have also written four plays, and this makes my 103rd book. This is titled When You Are Love That Is the Best Gift of All.

Download or read book Harvester World written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book SOUL EXISTENCE REVEALED Volume 3 written by Angel Vela and published by Spirituality non-fiction. This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Self Made Woman written by Alexzandra de la Iglesia and published by Alexzandra de la Iglesia. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Alexzandra de la Iglesia, like each of us has been on a journey of self discovery and the re-creation of her own life. Along the way she has uncovered empowering truths and profound insights. She has gathered this life changing knowledge into a humorous and insightful book that she is sharing with the world.No matter how difficult your current situation may be, hope and opportunity await you. As you move through these pages and apply these simple steps your life as you know will be changed forever.

Download or read book The Dash written by Phyllis Elaine Hotsenpiller Hays and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-23 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phyllis Hotsenpiller Hays (momma) grew up in a rural Ozark community. She was the last of four and came seven years later than the rest. Momma grew up on a farm rebounding from the horrible times of the Great Depression. Her daddy and brother worked the farm and daddy also worked in town. Momma loved her big brother and learned everything about farming from him. Momma also loved reading. When the chores were done she would while away the summer days under a big oak tree reading one of Americas classic novels. Her sisters took care of the domestic chores but one by one they married and left home leaving Momma with more responsibilities. Momma loved being on the farm and tagging along with her brother to the rodeo. Momma loved riding horses and became a trick rider in the rodeo. Life was good for Phyllis Hotsenpiller until age 13 when her daddy became ill with a brain tumor and after long suffering with horrible headaches he died. Mommas momma, Grandma Hotsenpiller, was a good Christian woman and never turned her back on a single soul. But her momma could not handle the weight of losing her husband and not knowing what to do with the farm. Momma worked the farm until the farm sold and momma was sent to live with her oldest sister. In the blink of an eye Mommas life was forever changed and she was now forced to grow up all at once.

Download or read book The Chain written by Samir Edward Morcos and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should wisdom be judged by the answers we give to life's greatest questions? Or conversely, should wisdom be judged by the profundity of our questions? In The Chain, author Samir Morcos inspires us to begin our search for insight by first acknowledging our ignorance. He then guides us through the philosophical and theological maze he refers to as a puzzle. One piece of the puzzle may trigger us to question how our bodily form came into existence. Another piece may activate our curiosity about the ebb and flow of the ocean's tides. Everywhere we look, from the color of our eyes to the people in our lives, we see questions, and we are propelled by our inner longing to seek satisfying answers. The Chain reveals startling revelations about age-old reflections. It takes its readers on the journey of their lives-and beyond Life challenges inspired author Samir Edward Morcos to become intensely interested in some tough topics, like guilt, evil, and truth. His drive to unravel the uncertainty of the universe, and to share what he has learned, impelled him to write The Chain. While he lives in the real world, he is inspired by the ethereal.The Chain will clear your confusion through logic, wisdom, and knowledge. Morcos was born in Cairo, Egypt, and now lives in Fairfax, Virginia. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheChain.htm

Download or read book Go Hard written by Craig Null and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed account of the life of Coach Walter "Kayo" Emmot, who served as head coach of the Independence (Kansas) High School Bulldogs Under his strong leadership, Kayo's teams compiled a win streak of 49 consecutive games, a Kansas state record at thet time. The text is carefully annotated with foot notes and end notes

Download or read book Pep Comics Vol 1 1940 written by MLJ Magazines Inc. and published by John Davies. This book was released on with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pep Comics is the name of an American comic book anthology series published by the Archie Comics predecessor MLJ Magazines Inc. (commonly known as MLJ Comics) during the 1930s and 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title continued under the Archie Comics imprint for a total of 411 issues until March 1987. Pep Comics was the comics title that introduced the superhero character The Shield, the first of the super-patriotic heroes with a costume based on a national flag (pre-dating Captain America by over a year), The Comet, who was the first superhero to die, and Archie Andrews, who eventually became the main focus of the company's extensive range of publications. This Volume contains 15 Issues of this great collection.

Download or read book God what happen to our good Men written by Rina L. Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my life as a woman who wanted to have a good man but could not find one on my own. I am a single mother with four children who had a horrible past that infected my thinking pattern towards men in general. Some folks with this type of insecurity go and see therapist, but decide to consult God about this issue. In result of finding God I found the truth why many of women are single, and the main reason is that we hold on to a lot of hurt that mess with our mind and thinking. When I began to contact God for myself, when I was out the sight of church, my family, and friends I was faced alone in the mirror with myself. And as I confront issue that was pulled up by seeking God it showed me the true answer to what I and many women ask God. What happen to the good men, is a book about my life that will inspire some and encourage other but important give you courage to face you. I also show the importance of why having a relationship with God for yourself is necessary. And in the end you will see that God's yoke is easy, and burden is light. When I tried to find a good man on my own, I was picking the wrong one because of me, not the men. But when I finally decide to detach myself from my own issues and come outside myself I got free and love found me.

Download or read book Graphic Sports written by Joe Aggrey and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 1997-06-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paul Newman written by Shawn Levy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post “A graceful tribute to a one-of-a-kind man.”—The Seattle Times “Newman’s life was never dull, and Levy re-creates it in vivid detail.”—Parade Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s Fool. But Newman was also an oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared about the craft of acting, the sexy leading man known for the staying power of his marriage, and the humble celebrity who made philanthropy his calling card long before it was cool. Unlike his father, a successful entrepreneur, Newman bypassed the family sporting goods business to pursue an acting career. After struggling as a theater and television actor, Newman landed the lead role of boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me when, in a tragic twist of fate, James Dean was killed in a car accident. Part of the original Actors Studio generation, Newman demanded a high level of rigor and clarity from every project. The artistic battles that nearly derailed his early movie career would pay off handsomely at the box office and earn him critical acclaim. He applied that tenacity to every endeavor both on and off the set. The outspoken Newman used his celebrity to call attention to political causes dear to his heart, including civil rights and nuclear proliferation. Taking up auto racing in midlife, Newman became the oldest driver to ever win a major professional auto race. A food enthusiast who would dress his own salads in restaurants, he launched the Newman’s Own brand dedicated to fresh ingredients, a nonprofit juggernaut that has generated more than $250 million for charity. In Paul Newman: A Life, Shawn Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of the actor’s life, from his merry pranks on the set to his lasting romance with Joanne Woodward to the devastating impact of his son’s death from a drug overdose. This expansive biography is a portrait of an extraordinarily gifted man who gave back as much as he got out of life—and just happened to be one of the most celebrated movie stars of the twentieth century.