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One. Little. Pill: My Journey from Addiction and Darkness to Purpose and Light
Addiction has no boundaries. Anyone can find themselves struggling. Deb Lawless-Miller didn’t fit any picture she held of what a drug addict would look like, and found it all too easy to deny that she had a problem. She became trapped in a web of to her parents, her husband and child, her boss, and to herself.
This deeply moving memoir takes us through three phases of her adult the chase, the crash, and the choice. She brings the reader alongside her into every scene, whether it’s forging prescriptions, going through withdrawals while in a courtroom, or entering rehab—but through it all, staying connected to her bottomless well of love for her young son.
One. Little. Pill . is a gripping story of the opioid crisis at a profoundly personal level. It is a true account of resilience, recovery, and the significance of a Higher Power.
One. Little. Pill. is not only an engaging chronicle of one woman’s journey through addiction and 12-Step recovery, it’s a beacon of hope for anyone who feels alone with substance use challenges or wants to help a loved one in that situation. Deb Lawless-Miller takes readers through every difficult step so candidly that her eventual spiritual awakening and transformation is completely relatable. The victory of lightness, healing, and purpose becomes a real possibility for anyone who can muster a little courage to make a change, one day at a time.
This deeply moving memoir takes us through three phases of her adult the chase, the crash, and the choice. She brings the reader alongside her into every scene, whether it’s forging prescriptions, going through withdrawals while in a courtroom, or entering rehab—but through it all, staying connected to her bottomless well of love for her young son.
One. Little. Pill . is a gripping story of the opioid crisis at a profoundly personal level. It is a true account of resilience, recovery, and the significance of a Higher Power.
One. Little. Pill. is not only an engaging chronicle of one woman’s journey through addiction and 12-Step recovery, it’s a beacon of hope for anyone who feels alone with substance use challenges or wants to help a loved one in that situation. Deb Lawless-Miller takes readers through every difficult step so candidly that her eventual spiritual awakening and transformation is completely relatable. The victory of lightness, healing, and purpose becomes a real possibility for anyone who can muster a little courage to make a change, one day at a time.
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Published May 12, 2024
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May 22, 2024
This might be the most honest, raw, and personal book on addiction I’ve ever read.
One. Little. Pill chronicles not just how addiction starts, but every step in between when trying to break free: the downward spiral, hitting rock bottom, denying rock bottom (even in rehab), the 12-step journey that repeats over and over again as you fight to stay sober, and how even when you do achieve sobriety, you must stay on guard or it will drag you under once more. I think those latter points are what really stuck out to me while reading.
There's an endless supply of addiction memoires, particularly from celebrities, where we focus so heavily on what led to the addiction and what it's like living as an addict. While that will forever be a vulnerable, crucial part of the addiction cycle, I've never quite gotten an understanding of what recovery feels like from those memoires. It almost feels like many of them treat sobriety as a magic wand solution, where they'll tell you how hard it was to become sober, but then kind of gloss over the struggle to remain sober. Yet, One. Little. Pill. doesn't hold back. We get to see the cravings, the despair, the anger, the fear, the strength required to drag yourself back up the hole once you notice you've started to slip back in. We honestly get to see how addiction works, what fuels it, and what fends it off, which is incredibly fascinating... at least to me.
I think for me, the main take away of OLP is that having an addiction is brutal. But living in sobriety can be broken down into one challenge at a time. Some that seem almost insurmountable, others so small that you barely register them, and some are the victories that come from not having a challenge and what addiction might whisper in your ear as a result. Yet, throughout it all, there's this feeling of hope and strength that's honestly inspiring. I think it's best summed up in the following AA prayer:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
One. Little. Pill chronicles not just how addiction starts, but every step in between when trying to break free: the downward spiral, hitting rock bottom, denying rock bottom (even in rehab), the 12-step journey that repeats over and over again as you fight to stay sober, and how even when you do achieve sobriety, you must stay on guard or it will drag you under once more. I think those latter points are what really stuck out to me while reading.
There's an endless supply of addiction memoires, particularly from celebrities, where we focus so heavily on what led to the addiction and what it's like living as an addict. While that will forever be a vulnerable, crucial part of the addiction cycle, I've never quite gotten an understanding of what recovery feels like from those memoires. It almost feels like many of them treat sobriety as a magic wand solution, where they'll tell you how hard it was to become sober, but then kind of gloss over the struggle to remain sober. Yet, One. Little. Pill. doesn't hold back. We get to see the cravings, the despair, the anger, the fear, the strength required to drag yourself back up the hole once you notice you've started to slip back in. We honestly get to see how addiction works, what fuels it, and what fends it off, which is incredibly fascinating... at least to me.
I think for me, the main take away of OLP is that having an addiction is brutal. But living in sobriety can be broken down into one challenge at a time. Some that seem almost insurmountable, others so small that you barely register them, and some are the victories that come from not having a challenge and what addiction might whisper in your ear as a result. Yet, throughout it all, there's this feeling of hope and strength that's honestly inspiring. I think it's best summed up in the following AA prayer:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
July 10, 2025
Bottomless well of love for her young son whom she mentions maybe five times in the first 4 chapters This is her story to tell but I felt it was poorly told and I never saw any of this relationship to her son or anyone else. The chapters are way too long and don’t have any logical place for ending or beginning. Maybe she just needed a better editor.
June 26, 2026
As someone who literally grew up in rooms re: mother, I found it to be an accurate read.
November 30, 2025
A very long advertisement for AA. she goes through the twelve steps in depth MULTIPLE times. I feel like didn’t include enough lot of her struggles, and she switches the tense multiple times, from past to present, present to past. Just not for me.
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