DRxug of Choice: Pick Your Poison
DRxug of Choice: Pick Your Poison
by Christopher Duquette
What happens when the life that once made you feel most alive begins to consume you?
Against the intoxicating backdrop of New York City nightlife, Christopher Duquette entered a world of freedom, ambition, self-discovery, excess, and extraordinary highs. Beneath the glamour, however, was a far more complicated journey.
DRxug of Choice: Pick Your Poison is Duquette’s candid and deeply personal memoir of living at the extremes and confronting what remains when the lights come up.
Drawing upon experiences with nightlife, addiction, identity, mental health, personal autonomy, and survival, Duquette revisits difficult chapters with remarkable openness. His story does not end with the fall.
It becomes a story of surviving, rebuilding, and choosing life differently.
Through painful experience and hard-won self-examination, Duquette sought to reclaim independence, dignity, self-worth, and purpose. The fulfillment once pursued through the outside world gradually became a search for something more enduring: self-awareness, acceptance, balance, recovery, and the courage to move forward.
Readers will encounter a memoir exploring:
identity and self-discovery
New York City nightlife and club culture
addiction and the consequences of excess
mental health and survival
recovery and resilience
reclaiming dignity and self-worth
personal transformation and reinvention
finding meaning after life’s darkest passages
At once candid, unconventional, and intensely personal, DRxug of Choice: Pick Your Poison asks an enduring question:
When everything you thought you wanted has been stripped away, what will you choose next?
For readers drawn to memoirs of survival, recovery, identity, and hard-won self-knowledge, Christopher Duquette left behind an unflinching account of confronting darkness and discovering that rebuilding a life is itself an act of courage.
Christopher Duquette passed away in March 2026. His memoirs remain part of his literary legacy, preserving the experiences, struggles, transformations, and distinctive voice he chose to share with readers.
Sometimes the most important choice is choosing to keep going.
