Don't Bring Your Vibrator to Rehab - by Pam Gaslow (Paperback)

About the Book

After nearly a decade of sobriety, Pam Gaslow relapsed into a life of dependency on marijuana, a devastating downward spiral that shattered her. From bongs to pipes to flavored vape pens, she dove into a two-year-long 24/7 stoned void: a protracted journey to nowhere. Ultimately becoming sick from marijuana toxicity, Gaslow finally finds the willingness to save herself and seek treatment. Don't Bring Your Vibrator to Rehab is an emotionally raw memoir that reveals the terrifying and lonely world of addiction. She tells all with honesty, intelligence, wit, and a remarkable degree of self-deprecating humor.

Book Synopsis

Don't Bring Your Vibrator to Rehab is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals the terrifying and lonely world of addiction. After almost a decade of sobriety, Pam Gaslow relapsed into a life of dependency on marijuana, which nearly destroyed her. She recounts a devastating downward spiral that shattered her at forty-five years old. From bongs to pipes to flavored vape pens, she drifted and then dove into a two-year-long stoned void: a protracted journey to nowhere. Gaslow was the twenty-four-hour defunct addict living without purpose and barely able to function. And while she was aware that pot wouldn't kill her, she couldn't feel more dead inside.

At times hilarious and harrowing, Gaslow paints a raw portrait of a woman held hostage by her substance abuse. Eventually becoming sick from marijuana toxicity, she finally finds the courage to seek treatment. Her journey via rehab from an entirely checked-out, lethargic, hopeless, and suicidally depressed pothead to a sober woman with clarity and gratitude is told with honesty, intelligence, wit, and a remarkable degree of self-deprecating humor.

About the Author

She's designed catalogs for J.Crew, performed stand-up comedy, even worked as Henri Bendel's
only female security guard. Pam Gaslow has had an eventful life -- including once being threatened by her family with disownment over her Depressed Hot Girl blog -- and it's about to get even more so with her first-personal confessional "Don't Bring Your Vibrator to Rehab." It's a hilarious chronicle of her journey toward sobriety from a toxic marijuana addiction, told with candor, honesty, absurdism, and the trademark wit that has brought her to comedy club stages across the country. The New York-born writer is also a contributor to The Huffington Post, The Good Men Project, The Times of Israel, and Newsbreak. Gaslow, who also works as a mixed-media artist, once owned and designed children's clothing lines under the brands Pamela Jo (for girls) and Handsome Jack (for boys). Now based in Miami, she is sober and enjoys visiting petting zoos on weekends.