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Substance Abuse & Addiction
Fiction and nonfiction that tell of someone's addiction to/abuse of drugs or alcohol.
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Hole in My Life
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A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age
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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
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Edie: American Girl
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Not Dead And Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers- A Memoir
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Bad News (Patrick Melrose, #2)
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You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption
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Keep Her Sweet
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Helen Fitzgerald (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Medicine Burns: And Other Stories (High Risk Books)
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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Catherine McKenzie (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 5,153 ratings
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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
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Paula Spencer (Paula Spencer, #2)
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Roaring Drunk: An Idiots Guide on Becoming an Alcoholic
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Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
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New Animal
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The Bitch Posse
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Anger Guide: A Blueprint for Twelve Structured Sessions
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Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate
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Money
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Clockers
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Veronica
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Raise the Bottom: How to Keep Secret Alcoholics from Damaging Your Business
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Something's Wrong in My House
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Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
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Family Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Families Impacted by Addiction
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| 625 |
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After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation
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| 625 |
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Maybe I'll Call Anna
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3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings
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| 625 |
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Teens Under the Influence: The Truth About Kids, Alcohol, and Other Drugs- How to Recognize the Problem and What to Do About It
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Katherine Ketcham (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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| 625 |
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The Berenstain Bears and the Drug-Free Zone (Big Chapter Books)
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3.72 avg rating — 206 ratings
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| 625 |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
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A Hole in the Sidewalk: The Recovering Person's Guide to Relapse Prevention
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Matthew Flinders' Cat
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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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4.09 avg rating — 107 ratings
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| 631 |
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Children of Light
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| 631 |
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The Wisdom of the Rooms - Volume Three
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All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge
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American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
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John Temple (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
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| 631 |
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Violeta
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 103,220 ratings
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| 639 |
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Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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3.79 avg rating — 103 ratings
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| 639 |
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Just Love Her: A Mother's Journey of Healing Through Her Daughter's Drug Addiction
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Out of Step: Faces of Straight Edge
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| 642 |
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Sweat: A Practical Plan For Keeping Your Heart Intact While Loving An Addict
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Denise Krochta (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
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Gabriel Kuhn (Editor)
3.86 avg rating — 326 ratings
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| 642 |
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The Alcoholic
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Meditations in Green
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Skate
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Michael Harmon (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids about Drugs and Alcohol
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Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
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Slaying the Addiction Monster: An All-Inclusive Look at Drug Addiction in America Today
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Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change
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| 646 |
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Transcendent Kingdom
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 159,607 ratings
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Relapse Toolkit
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| 652 |
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Iced
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Ray Shell (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 351 ratings
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| 652 |
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Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism & Drug Addiction (A Hazelden Guidebook)
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Jeff Jay (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 213 ratings
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| 652 |
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Straight Edge: Subkultur, Ideologie, Lebensstil?
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Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
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3.72 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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| 657 |
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Double Duty: Help for the Adult Child
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| 657 |
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Scarface
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Straightedge Youth: Complexity and Contradictions of a Subculture
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2.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
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| 660 |
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The Devil's Playground
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| 660 |
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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
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Stephen Fried (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
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| 660 |
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Treffpunkt im Unendlichen
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3.89 avg rating — 144 ratings
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With The Light Of Truth
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| 660 |
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Proof of Angels
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Mary Curran Hackett (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 161 ratings
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| 665 |
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Snow Bodies: One Woman's Life on the Streets
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3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Past The Present 1982-2007: A History Of 25 Years Of European Straight Edge
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| 667 |
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Pretty
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Jillian Lauren (Goodreads Author)
3.16 avg rating — 871 ratings
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| 667 |
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Anger Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Anger
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 667 |
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Straight Edge A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History
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The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe's Dad Finds Recovery
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POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse
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| 672 |
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The Speed Queen
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Stewart O'Nan (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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Depression Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Depression
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| 674 |
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder, #6)
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4.17 avg rating — 5,854 ratings
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The Missing Piece: Solving the Puzzle of Self
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
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The Truth Begins with You: Reflections to Heal Your Spirit
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In Hanuman's Hands: A Memoir
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Cheeni Rao (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Double duty: chemically dependent : dual dynamics within the chemically dependent home
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Bright Burning Things
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Repeat After Me
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The Incantation of Frida K.
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"It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood": Inspirations for Inner Healing
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Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal Lies and Secrets
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My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses
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Pills-A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History & Consumption
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Jim Hogshire (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment and Fear
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It Will Never Happen to Me!
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The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
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Death of a Valentine (Hamish Macbeth, #25)
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Valencia
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Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (Agatha Raisin, #21)
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The IHOP Papers
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Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)
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Narcotics Anonymous: White Booklet
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The Beautiful: Collected Poems
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Miracles happen: The birth of Narcotics Anonymous in words and pictures
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Sponsorship
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An Introductory Guide to Narcotics Anonymous
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Neil and Me
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You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again, by Julia Phillips. The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut. P
how about "Dope" by Sara Gran, and "The Last Opium Den" by Nick Tosches?
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This list is so important and incredible. Disability Consciousness with a scope on addiction as a mental/phsycial disability is an incredible and misunderstood (fractured) lens to read through. Fitzgerald is an easy author to sensationalize for addiction, however much of it is circuited by the jazz age culture - I'd argue the American Dream is an allegory for an addictive mindset one that traps pursuers into something that devours them completely.
Added Morphine, an autobiographic story by Bulgakov. It's not sensationally written, but a kind of scary precision which horrifies even more.
These two are on the list but not (in my opinion) as highly ranked as they should be-Drinking: A Love Story (Caroline Knapp) and The Night of the Gun (David Carr-wow, do I miss him and his writings).
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Dave Carr's memoir, The Gun in the Night, both excellent. Also the MOYERS book, forget the title...