Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug Addiction by Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter, PsyD.

In MAINLINING PHILLY: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug Addiction, Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter, PsyD., tells her disturbing but inspirational story of growing up as the child of drug addicts. Meeting Dr. Geri-Lynn, a Philadelphia native for the first time, it would be easy to assume she’s the product of the elite schools and glossy social life of the Mainline. But in fact, Geri-Lynn grew up in Kensington, her father and her mother both lifelong drug addicts. She saw first-hand the torment of addiction. The violence of the “life.” The despair that there could be no way out except death by overdose. Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter is a clinical psychologist who works with individuals struggling with drug addiction and severe mental illness. She is the child of parents who suffered from drug addiction. She has also witnessed countless addicts who lived and died in her parents’ wildly dysfunctional and often criminal inner circle during her childhood in one of Philadelphia’s roughest areas. For more information, please visit https://drgerilynn.com/.