James F. Gauss, Ph.D.
May 5, 2025
Bond Slaves: Confessions of Hard Core Bikers
This book is full of wisdom and inspiring testimonies. definitely a good book if you’re looking for inspiration or to be fasinated [sic] by how deep God chases after those who are lost. I recommend this book to anyone who is or knows someone whose had some rough times, for anyone that’s looking for a good read or someone who’s just wanting to know more about the love of Christ.
Scottie
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of the Bond Slaves.
Thud! Larry’s forehead hit the top of the desk in front of him. It was a familiar early morning sound to both him and his former wife. The force of the fleshly impact was part of his morning routine and caused him to sit straight up and awake out of his groggy, drug-induced lethargy. The noise was loud enough to wake his wife in the next room.
“I had my one son (he didn’t know it [that Larry was doing drugs]), I had him wake me up before he went to school and I would start shootin’ cocaine probably about 6:30 in the morning to 7:30 or 8:00 and then I’d start going through the withdrawal from the heroin [from the previous day],” Larry confessed. But that was just the beginning of his typical daily drug and alcohol diversion. “Then I would do a massive amount of heroin [until, in a drug-induced stupor, his body would slump forward and his head would bang on the desk].” When his wife heard the sound she wanted to know what was going on. “I didn’t want her to know I was up already doing drugs, so I’d say, ‘I’m just gettin’ something ready for us.’ So then I’d start doing dope,” he continued. “And then when my drug partner came over – my drug dealing partner – at about ten o’clock, I had a whole separate set of stuff in my shop where I built bikes. And we’d go down and we’d have to get high. By noon,” he admitted, “I had consumed several hundred dollars worth of drugs.”
That was pretty much Larry’s daily routine right up until he went to bed, particularly during the last one and half years that he was a user, with the exception that along about two o’clock each afternoon he would start consuming 100-proof vodka on the rocks.
“When I got sober [14 years ago], I realized that from the time I was 15 years old there were five days between then and [age] 31 that I wasn’t stoned,” he said with remorse. “And those days I was drunk. So there was not a day, not a sober breath in over 15 years.”
Larry got started on drugs and alcohol at such an early age, not due to peer pressure, but he said, “More than anything I wanted approval from people. I really didn’t fit in as the star athlete, or the smartest kid, or the most popular kid, or the most handsome kid, or the funniest kid. But when I smoked pot,” he recalled, “I fell into a very select group of people. It was very select; it was very confidential. You were doing something that you weren’t supposed to do and there was a draw. The problem,” he professed, “is my addictive nature wants to go all the way. And that’s where I went from smoking pot to doing acid and getting drunk everyday as a teenager to shootin’ drugs at 17. And that just started a whole career,” he said with a voice of soft regret.
“I figured if beer is good, then 100-proof vodka must be better. You know, if pot is good, then heroin and cocaine must be the elite.” From his sober and Christ-centered perspective he can now see that it was all just a sinkhole of entrapment which caused him to spiral deeper and deeper into the pit of hopelessness. “Everything I’ve done in my life has been excessive,” Larry confessed. “That’s why I feel what I’m doing for the Lord, doing this [ministry] fits my nature.”
Larry, however, came close to never making it to God’s promised land of redemption. “When I quit doing heroin,” Larry declared, “I was up to between one-half gram and a gram of uncut heroin a day; which had a street value of $2,000 a day.”
His drug habit brought him to the brink of death at least three times that he could remember. “I’ve ODed [overdosed] before on Speed [typically methamphetamine],” he acknowledged. “I’ve done so much Speed that I fell asleep. I’ve had a near heart attack on cocaine. I’ve ODed on heroin twice,” he continued, “to where they had to revive me; where I stopped breathing.”
To support his expensive habit, he worked mostly odd jobs: bounced at a bar, construction; built motorcycles, or sold drugs. His jobs were usually short-lived.
“As soon as I made enough money selling drugs; as soon as I made more money in a day than I would in a week, I’d quit my job,” he admitted. “And I’d be selling drugs ‘til my drug habit would ruin that. I’d have to go back and get another job.”
Larry was intimately aware of the hellish life and consequences in which he lived. The drug-induced deaths of two friends could not slow him down. . . .
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