Take a Pause

The main purpose in writing Take a Pause is to help people understand the mind of an addict. This book is designed to help an addict quiet his or her mind and also to help those who are in a relationship with an addict to understand the nature of this problem on a personal level. It is the authors hope that his life experience will empower you, the reader, to achieve harmony in your life. Mark Tucker, now seven years sober, straps readers in for a road trip through his experience of addiction, which began in his teens. He pulls to a stop roughly two decades later, after a few recoveries and relapses and 40 misdemeanor convictions, 11 felony convictions, and four prison sentences. What you will take away from this reading is a message of hope. That no matter how far down the scale of life you have fallen, there is a way back up and you can rise above your circumstances.

Bio:

My name is Mark Tucker. 

Mine is a story of addiction, murder and hope. I am a recovering heroin addict of 20 years. I have served 4 prison sentences due to heroin and have even been held hostage by the Mexican mafia. 

James Moran, the 8th most wanted man in America held me at gun point and eventually shot himself in the head in my car after murdering 2 other people. I’m an example of just how debilitating that kind of addiction can be, and what it means to recover. 

I have been clean since 2012 and now speak in the same prisons I once resided in. My message is hope and that “Recovery is Possible.”Through my intimate experience on the streets of Seattle and Portland, I can connect with the addict who still suffers and give them a better design for living. 

My fight is not against drugs or prison recidivism, my fight is for recovery and freedom from addiction. I am having a positive impact on the communities, prisons and treatment centers I speak in. Many people have found recovery as a result of hearing my story.