A Tragic Story that Starts with a Prescription from a Doctor.

It was early one spring morning that Britt Doyle received the terrible news that his ex-wife Wynne had been found dead in her bed-and worse, his young son had been the one to find her.

Wynne Doyle seemed to have it all-wealth, education, a successful marriage, and a beautiful family. She had the talent and energy to succeed at any project she took on, from serving on a charity board to renovating her San Francisco home. But underneath a façade of confidence and well-being, she was struggling with addiction to prescription opiates and alcohol.

Over time, her husband became an expert at finding hidden pills and liquor bottles-in her shoes, under the mattresses, in the pockets of coats hanging in the back of the closet, even inside containers of rice in the pantry. Her children survived by learning to read her every mood. But their strategies were futile in the face of Wynne's slow descent into illness-a decades-long cycle of hospitalizations, treatments, and relapses that finally came to an abrupt end that spring night in 2015.

Both a memoir and a mea culpa, Sedated recounts the unraveling of a life that once was filled with promise, and a family's frantic efforts to prevent the inevitable. This unsentimental remembrance reveals intimate details behind this private tragedy-because we all need to know and share our experiences if we want to come to grips with the heartbreaking and humbling national epidemic of opiate addiction.
About the Author: Britt Doyle is a thirty-year veteran of the Capital Markets, having started his career as an institutional fixed income salesman for Security Pacific Asian Bank in Singapore directly out of college. After receiving an MBA in the late 1980s, he moved to the private client side of the business, working for various large investment banks, including Kidder Peabody, Merrill Lynch, and UBS. Most of his career, however, was spent as a member of Citigroup's elite Family Office division, where he developed the knowledge and skillset necessary to work with ultra-wealthy families on a variety of relevant topics. At Witt Global Partners, Britt's responsibilities will include sourcing and vetting alternative asset funds, and direct capital raises within the Family Office and Independent Wealth Advisor channel. Britt graduated with a BA in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and received an MBA from the University of Southern California, where he served as a founding member of the Student Investment Fund. Britt is an avid tennis player and former children's kenpo karate instructor. He is an Ambassador for Shatterproof, a national organization committed to protecting children from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, and also serves on the Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Advisory Board to the Marin County Board of Supervisors. He lives with his wife and four children in Marin, California.