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Booklist by Topic: Addiction, Opiates |
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FICTION
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Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh - W.W. Norton Format: Paperback
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Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter.
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Demon Copperhead: A Novel
BARBARA KINGSOLVER - Harper Format: Book
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Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot... |
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Cherry: A novel
Nico Walker - Knopf Format: Book
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Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love.... |
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Patrick Melrose: The Novels
Edward St Aubyn - Picador Format: Paperback
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By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his reader the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose's story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five... |
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NON-FICTION
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Addict in the Family: Support Through Loss, Hope, and Recovery
Beverly Conyers Format: Book
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For families of addicts, fear, shame, and confusion over a loved one’s addiction can cause deep anxiety, sleepless nights, and even physical illness. The emotional distress family members suffer is often compounded by the belief that they somehow caused or contributed to their... |
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Gabor Mate - North Atlantic Books; 1 edition Format: Book
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Based on Gabor Mat's two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver's skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Mat presents... |
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The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin
Tracey Helton Mitchell - Seal Press Format: Book
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After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good. With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells... |
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy - Little, Brown and Company Format: Book
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In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it's a heartbreaking trajectory... |
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari - Bloomsbury Format: Book
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New York Times BestsellerIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people... |
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff - Houghton Mifflin Co Format: Book
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Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff's son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning... |
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