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The LA Diaries: Drunken Each of the 24hrs in a Day
The best addiction memoirs reflect on the running and gunning with just the right amount of thoughtful remove, which is exactly what makes James Brown’s ‘The LA Diaries’ so important. The title is...
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David Carr’s Gritty Memoir: The Night of the Gun
Macho and swashbuckling journalists—and, despite the pantywaist Ivy Leaguers that old-timers bemoan, there are still plenty of them, including women, in journalism’s ever-dwindling ranks—will have to...
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The Morning After: Lit by Mary Karr
Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner’s descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness–and to her astonishing resurrection. Karr’s longing for a solid family seems secure when her...
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The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty
Regret, unfiltered anger, disappointment, hope, compassion, practical drug-coping information, dispiriting hookups, Jeff Buckley player-hating, Thanksgiving overdoses, Buzz Bin sausage making,...
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The Permanent Midnight of Another Life Form
Jerry Stahl recounts in his blistering 1995 memoir, ”Permanent Midnight,” drug addiction turned him into a skittish, distracted, hugely self-involved individual. But since he happened to be working in...
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The Story of How Bill Clegg Lost It All
“Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man” is a mesmerizing bummer. Reading it is like letting the needle down on a Nick Drake album. It’s the story of how Bill Clegg lost it all — his clients, his...
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Drinking: A Love Story
In “Drinking” Caroline Knapp writes about the disturbing incongruities of her life as what she calls a “high-functioning alcoholic”: she was an award-winning journalist, an Ivy League graduate from a...
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5 of the Best Books About Addiction You’ll Ever Read
Sex, food, envy, drugs, dreams, drink: addiction is never simple and is rarely forgotten by those who survive it. Addiction is a very patient disease. These 5 writers learned that, and lived to tell...
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Buzz Aldrin’s Descent From Astronaut to Alcoholic
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took those famous steps that were watched by hundreds of millions, they instantly became two of the most famous people on the planet. In “Magnificent Desolation: The...
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6 More of the Best Books Books About Addiction & Recovery
If you’ve already read through the last 5 books and memoirs about addiction & recovery, here’s 6 more. Hopefully you can gain some insight so you can avoid going to that great rehab in the sky. 1....
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When David Foster Wallace Went to Rehab
At the end of 1989, David Foster Wallace was admitted to McLean Hospital, the psychiatric hospital associated with Harvard University, for substance addiction. He was twenty-seven years old and...
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Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support This is your stage. Tell your story. And we’ll amplify it! We believe that by sharing our stories of recovery, we can empower others to overcome addiction. We...
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William Burroughs on Heroin Addiction
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support El Hombre Invisible, the Cosmonaut of Inner Space, Bill Lee, William S. Burroughs; the gaunt faced author of Naked Lunch & Junky, talks about his addiction to...
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