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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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Dopefiend: A Father's Journey from Addiction to Redemption
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Tim Elhajj (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
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The Mindful Addict: A Memoir of the Awakening of a Spirit
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Follow Me Down
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Sherri Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 950 ratings
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Becoming Normal: An Ever-Changing Perspective
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Picking Up the Pieces without Picking Up: A Guidebook through Victimization for People in Recovery
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Jennifer Storm (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Leave the Light On: A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery
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Jennifer Storm (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 79 ratings
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My Five-Year Recovery Planner: Looking to the Future, One Day at a Time
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Central Recovery Press (Editors)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 51,
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My First Year in Recovery: A Journal for the Journey
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Central Recovery Press (Editors)
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Recovery A to Z: A Handbook of Twelve-Step Key Terms and Phrases
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My Pain Recovery Journal
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Central Recovery Press (Editors)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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1,311 voters ·
list created August 7th, 2008
by Jessica Haider (votes) .
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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?
You could add them; it's easy to add books to lists. At the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."
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...