The Footsteps of My Life The Light from the Inside Podcast Companion |
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| Author:
| Fontes, Leo
Martinez, Isaias |
| General Editor:
| Fontes, Leo
Clim, L. A. |
| Illustrator:
| Clim, L. A. |
| Translator:
| Caballero, Sarai |
| Contribution by:
| Bernal, Adalia
Figueroa, Gabriel
Rosales, César |
| Series title: | The Footsteps of My Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 979-8-3698-0992-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $13.02 |
Book Description:
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Isaias Martinez was born like many of his time and race, into poverty, and although he recalls lacking nothing early in life, he failed to realize that as a young teen. He'd soon join a local Santa Maria, California gang and accept them as his new family, only to realize he had chosen to accept others who had even less to offer. Upon breaking away from the gang a few years after, he fell even harder as an addict to heroin and methadone, yet still managing to survive five...
More DescriptionIsaias Martinez was born like many of his time and race, into poverty, and although he recalls lacking nothing early in life, he failed to realize that as a young teen. He'd soon join a local Santa Maria, California gang and accept them as his new family, only to realize he had chosen to accept others who had even less to offer.
Upon breaking away from the gang a few years after, he fell even harder as an addict to heroin and methadone, yet still managing to survive five drug overdoses, gunshots, knife attacks, psychiatric hospitalizations, multiple run-ins with the law, and incarcerations. Nothing could make him change, or recognize all the pain and suffering he had subjected his loved ones to, for many years.
His lifestyle and choices would soon wear down his wife and daughter, and the presiding Prop-36 drug court judge who handled many of his cases was ready to lock him up for good and throw away the key.
But one day he saw the Light, and it was what finally was able to bring change to his life and save him. Mr. Martinez did not credit the multiple rehab programs and alternate prescriptions designed to counter the cravings of other meds. So, what was it?