Wasted

By Mark Johnson

Subjects: Biography, Recovering addicts, Childhood and youth, Adult child abuse victims, Johnson, Mark, -- 1970- -- Childhood and youth., Drug use

Description: Mark Johnson's father had 'LOVE' tattooed across his left hand, but that didn't stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school with broken fingers and chipped teeth, but no one ever thought of investigating their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks, and kept on falling. For years. Constantly in trouble at school, Mark began stealing at the age of seven, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin aged eleven. A sensitive, intelligent boy, he could never stay on the right path, and though Art College beckoned, he ended up in Portland prison instead. With searing honesty, Wasted documents Mark's descent into the depths of addiction and criminality.