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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping memoir about the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery from a bold and talented literary voice. “Anyone who has ever felt broken and wished for a better life will find inspiration in Frey’s story.” —People
“A great story.... You can't help but cheer his victory.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
By the time he entered a drug and
2) Intervention
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment-and her interventionist is found dead at the airport-Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all. Barbara and her son set out to find Emily before Detective Kent Harlan arrests her for a crime he is sure she committed. Fearing for Emily's life, Barbara maintains...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial.
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Different Approach to the Twelve Step Program That is Neither Cult, Cure, nor Curse
Whether you're new to the road of recovery or not so new, sobriety isn't easy. This guide combines real-life stories and sensible advice to help you stay on the road of self-improvement.
Clean and sober twenty days or twenty years-it makes no difference. We all need a little help every once in a while. With it comes a journey that has a message-one of hope, motivation,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a gritty and cautionary tale, a former drug dealer must deal with ghosts from his past when he's reunited with one of his best customers.
Smoke used to supply Breanne with crack so she could block out an existence she couldn't escape from, and he was hungry enough to take anything she had to offer in exchange for his magic rocks. Fast-forward sixteen years and Breanne is back to tell him he is the father of her sixteen-year-old son.
10) Sway
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The author's memoir focuses on pivotal points in his life, beginning with his father's death in the September 11 World Trade Center terror attacks, and on through his own struggles with addiction and his road to recovery"--OCLC.
Author
Publisher
Central Recovery
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Poignant and moving stories from recovering addicts about how the unconditional love of their pets brought them from the horrors of active addiction to a life filled with hope and healing. Includes information on the disease of addiction with supporting medical research data throughout.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, [this book] turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about...