Addictions category: 667 books
by Tom Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
"Takes you to the gristle-chewing tracks of the gnarly Emerald City before the first wave of Sub Pop loving kids arrived.” Chris Estey, KEXP Radio, Seattle
In American Junkie, Tom Hansen takes us non-stop into a land of desperate addicts, failed punk bands, and brushes with sad fame,...
by Joshua Mohr
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
"To the short list of genuinely great addiction memoirs we can now add Sirens, a searing and at times hilarious account of Mohr's lost years in the dive bars and gutters of San Francisco. Like Mary Karr and Jerry Stahl, there is no line Mohr won't cross, either in his erstwhile quest for self-immolation,...
by Gregor Hens
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
By turns philosophical and darkly comic, an ex-smoker's meditation on the nature and consequences of his nearly lifelong addiction
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Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting...
A Common Struggle
A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles.
On...
Prison Baby
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman’s struggles—beginning with her birth in prison—to find self-acceptance
Prison Baby is a revised and substantially expanded version of Deborah Jiang Stein’s self-published memoir, Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus. Even at twelve years...
Back From The Edge Of Hell
The Autobiography Of Two Time World Heavyweight Champion Pinklon Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Back from the Edge of Hell is Pinklon Thomas’ amazing true story. Born into a stable family unit with loving, hard working, God fearing parents, Pinklon allows himself to be lured into the gangster lifestyle and becomes a heroin addict at age twelve. When fifteen, he quits school, commits armed...
Speed
Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster--And Overcoming Our Fear of Slowing Down
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
**MORE, BETTER…SLOWER.
Feeling rushed, out of control, and overwhelmed?
Feeling like you can’t keep up…and can’t stop?
It’s not just you.**
From the need to be constantly connected and the changing definition of “work hours,” to unrealistic expectations of instant gratification,...
Dopesick
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through...
Your Happiness Was Hacked
Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
“Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives—the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it.”
**—Dean Ornish, M.D....
The Age of Addiction
How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose “limbic capitalism” creates and caters to our bad habits.
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...
Dark Poetry, Volume 5: Gothic Twilight III
Dark Poetry, #5
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
DYSTOPIA! DYSPHORIA! DISSATISFACTION! DISSIPATION! EXTINCTION!
J J Ginty's 'poetic journal' is a delicious insight.
Gothic Twilight III is an organic outgrowth of Gothic Twilight II (Dark Poetry, Volume 4).
Presenting the thought-provoking (sometimes disturbing), poetic continuance...
Dark Poetry, Volume 4: Gothic Twilight II
Dark Poetry, #4
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
BEHOLD! … AS HE PARADES THE MOTLEY INCARNATIONS THAT DWELL WITHIN THE TWILIGHT OF HIS HAUNTED GOTHIC SOUL!
Gothic Twilight II is the fourth collection in J J Ginty's Dark Poetry series.
Pursuing on from the spectral dominions of Gothic Twilight (Dark Poetry, Volume 2). Here the author...
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...