Substance Abuse category: 962 books
Running with Monsters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Celebrity Rehab star and Thelonious Monster frontman Bob Forrest's memoir about his drug-fueled life in the L.A. indie rock scene of the '80s and '90s and his life-changing decision to become a drug counselor who specializes in reaching the unreachable.
Life has been one strange trip for Bob...
Recovery
Freedom from Our Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery
“This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is...
Escape from Bellevue
A Memoir of Rock 'n' Roll, Recovery, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Read Christopher John Campion's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Indie rock raconteur Chris Campion-one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward-recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobriety
Chronicling more than...
Orphan Spirit
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Author Maria Star developed in a schizophrenics womb for nine months. After Maria was born, she was given to the Childrens Aid Society and subsequently experienced life in six foster homes before being adopted. In Orphan Spirit, she narrates the story of her life and how her early abandonment affected...
Death Grip
A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Death Grip chronicles a top climber's near-fatal struggle with anxiety and depression, and his nightmarish journey through the dangerous world of prescription drugs. Matt Samet lived to climb, and craved the challenge, risk, and exhilaration of conquering sheer rock faces around the United States...
Ashes to Ashes
America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.
Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature,...
From A Dark Place
How A Family Coped With Drug Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
When the Husband family realised that their son Paul was addicted to heroin, they did everything they could to help him but it seemed that every step in the right direction would be followed by another relapse as Paul lied to them, stole from them, and come close to losing his life.
This illustrated...
Out of the Wreck I Rise
A Literary Companion to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
“There’s still time to change things.”—Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World
Addiction is easy to fall into and hard to escape. It destroys the lives of individuals, and has a devastating cost to society. The National Institute of Health estimates seventeen million adults in the United States...
Dirty
A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to explore the causes and consequences of our nation's drug crisis. In these pages we get to know the kids, the parents, the therapists, and...
Life Without Ed : How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2003
A unique new approach to treating eating disorders Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these...
The Sober Diaries
How one woman stopped drinking and started living
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
A bravely honest and brilliantly comic account of how one mother gave up drinking and started living. This is Bridget Jones Dries Out.
Clare Pooley is a Cambridge graduate and was a Managing Partner at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies, and yet by eighteen months ago she'd become...
With or Without You
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY**
Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town...
Mientrás tú bebías
Un relato de luz y esperanza para los familiares de un enfermo alcohólico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Pocos meses antes de su boda, Marian recibe una noticia que la obliga a emprender un viaje inesperado para acompañar a su hermano y a sus cuatro sobrinos en el funeral de su cuñada. Jamás imaginó que este viaje cambiaría por completo el rumbo de su vida. Una serie de encuentros y desencuentros...
Addiction and Grace
Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Addiction and Grace offers an inspiring and hope–filled vision for those who desire to explore the mystery of who and what they really are. May examines the "processes of attachment" that lead to addiction and describes the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. He also...