Pain Inspired My Book: Overcoming Alcohol Addiction Differently/ Dr. Dustin on The CJ Moneyway Show

of life, and when in reality all it is is just big alcohol companies making tons of money off of, off of your body and your mind and your spirit.

Yeah, I mean, I, I, I agree with you 100%, Doc. Hey, so, uh, so Dustin, man, tell us what inspired you to write, uh, You're Doing Great and Other Lies Alcohol Told Me. And what do you hope, uh, readers to gain from it?

Yeah, pain. Pain inspired me. Uh, there's no better, no better, uh, teacher and motivator than pain. And it was like, I was, I was, number one, I was getting it all out. I was getting this story out about my life and about my family, all this stuff. I was getting it out to my kids. I got two daughters that I want to know exactly what alcohol has done to our family, to me. Uh, you know, why I divorced— why I got divorced with their mother. And so it's all out there. So it was kind of like journaling, and it was incredibly healthy on that front. But then it's also, of course, to help other people, to be like, okay, I've been down this path, I've researched it all, I've had it in my family like crazy, I've got a doctorate in psychology, I, I know how to overcome this in a very different way than AA. This is a very different approach from Alcoholics Anonymous. And I don't— like I said, I don't say the word alcoholic ever. I say addicted to alcohol. You're either addicted or you're not. And then once you're not and you don't have those cravings anymore, you're cured. You don't have to sit there and white-knuckle it.