A Harvard-educated doctor loses everything but gains his life. Now he bring the message of recovery to other addicts. Dr. Sylvester Skip Sviokla lived life as a successful driven athletic and brilliant graduate of Harvard Medical School reveling in wealth and glamour as a celebrity doctor until addiction brought his life crashing down. This real-life Dr. House had it all (he thought) until addiction took everything. Miraculously recovery gave him back his family his self-respect and much more. The media is filled with celebrity addiction stories so people will be drawn to the author s experience as a doctor to the stars. Having attended the most famous university and medical school in the world Dr. Sviokla s story will also be relevant to a larger audience including medical professionals and those seeking answers about addiction. Sylvester Skip Sviokla III MD is a 1967 graduate of Harvard College (where he was a two-year starter on the football team culminating in his receiving one vote for the 1966 Heisman Trophy and an offer to try out for the Chicago Bears) and a 1972 graduate of Harvard Medical School. He was owner and medical director of Skip Sviokla Entertainment Medicine Inc. and of Medical Weight Management Inc. in Massachusetts. Kerry Zukus is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied composition and arranging while appearing as an actor in theaters all over New England.