Most books on addiction or A.D.D. talk down to you. They explain “symptoms” and “strategies” in polished clinical tones that never touch the raw edges of reality. Rusty does the opposite. He throws you straight into the storm — the racing thoughts, the restless nights, the desperate search for peace that leads to self-medication.

The Recovery Code: The Noise Beneath the Addiction by Rusty Johnson does something radically different. It doesn’t hand you a script; it hands you a machete and a torch. It doesn’t try to fit you into a box — it blows the box apart and shows you that survival means writing your own code