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Cracked: putting broken lives together again : a doctor's story
By Drew Pinsky. 2003
Radio show advice doctor details his work as medical director of a Southern California drug addiction rehabilitation facility. Pinsky clinically…
describes the frightening process of detoxification, patients' underlying physical and psychiatric problems, the raw emotions displayed in the clinic, and his own recurrent struggles with despair. Some strong language. 2003The spirits of America: a social history of alcohol
By Eric Burns. 2004
Broadcast journalist briefly summarizes alcohol's history prior to American colonization, then traces to modern times the role of America's "first…
national pastime." Describes early medicinal uses and draws on anecdotes of bootleggers, temperance advocates, and other notable characters to explore political and economic motivations behind prohibition. 2004My name is Bill: Bill Wilson : his life and the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
By Susan Cheever. 2004
Biography of Bill Wilson (1895-1971), cofounder of the worldwide organization to combat alcohol addiction. Relates Wilson's Vermont background, seventeen-year alcoholic…
journey from euphoria to desperation, struggles to quit drinking, and meeting with Bob Smith leading to creation of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. Explains the twelve AA recovery steps and traditions. 2004Fatal romance: a true story of obsession and murder (St Martin's True Crime Library)
By Lisa Pulitzer, Lisa Beth Pulitzer. 2001
A real-life account examining what led lawyer and former marine Jeremy Akers in 1999 to murder his estranged wife, a…
romance writer, at their Washington, D.C., home in front of their children. The author describes the couple's unhappy marriage and the events culminating in Akers's suicide. Some violence and some strong language. 2001Former first lady Betty Ford, who founded a nonprofit addiction recovery facility in 1982, profiles six women and their battles…
against substance abuse. Ford chronicles their lives before and after treatment while commenting on addiction, the healing process, and her own personal recovery. 2003American Lung Association 7 steps to a smoke-free life
By Edwin B. Fisher, Edwin B Fisher. 1998
Guide to quitting smoking based on the American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking program. Recommends identifying individual reasons for addiction…
to personalize a plan that can be used with other cessation techniques. The seven-step process addresses how to cope with cravings, keep off extra weight, avoid setbacks, and survive after "quit day." 1998Zelda Fitzgerald: her voice in paradise
By Sally Cline. 2003
English literary scholar reexamines the life of the Jazz Age writer, painter, and ballerina whose artistic efforts were overshadowed by…
the celebrity of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and undermined by encroaching mental illness. Cline illuminates Zelda's character, explores her sometimes enigmatic self-expression, and reevaluates her legacy. 2002The Twelve steps and twelve traditions of Overeaters Anonymous
By Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. Staff. 1993
Discusses the disease of compulsive eating and a solution by using a twelve-step program of recovery. Also includes an introduction…
to the twelve traditions used in providing group and individual support. 1990Finders keepers: the story of a man who found $1 million
By Mark Bowden. 2002
Fleshing out a series of magazine articles he wrote fifteen years earlier, the author recounts the 1981 story of unemployed…
dock worker and methamphetamine addict Joey Coyle, who found over one million dollars that had fallen off the back of an armored truck. Some strong language. 2002Teens under the influence: the truth about kids, alcohol, and other drugs : how to recognize the problem, and what to do about it
By Katherine Ketcham, Nicholas A. Pace. 2003
Resource guide to help parents combat adolescent substance abuse. Detailed passages explain teenage addiction, biological and environmental factors, and the…
short and long-term effects of specific drugs. Provides information about diagnosis, intervention, treatment options, the recovery process, and strategies for coping with relapses. 2003Sickened: the memoir of a Munchausen by proxy childhood
By Julie Gregory. 2003
Author recalls childhood of constant visits to doctors seeking cures for ailments invented by her mother, who suffered a psychological…
disorder (Munchausen by proxy) causing caregivers to falsify illness in dependent persons to gain attention. Learning about this condition in college, Gregory realizes her mother's abuse. Some violence and some strong language. 2003Reefer madness: sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market
By Eric Schlosser. 2003
In three separate reports, the author of Fast Food Nation (RC 51561) describes the growth and impact of a vast…
underground economy in the United States. "Reefer Madness" examines the marijuana trade; "In the Strawberry Fields" discusses illegal migrant workers; and "An Empire of the Obscene" reviews the pornography industry. Bestseller. 2003A million little pieces
By James Frey. 2003
Memoir by a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, whose parents checked him into a Minnesota rehabilitation clinic as a last-step…
measure when he was twenty-three. Discusses his experiences there, including treatment methods he accepted and rejected to regain sobriety. Strong language. Bestseller. 2003Details five murderous criminals, including a Buffalo, New York, plastic surgeon who recklessly operated in his basement, causing the death…
of a young mother. Once released from jail, he poisoned his wife with a near-fatal dose of arsenic. Sequel to Empty Promises...(DB 51901). Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2003Artificial paradises
By Charles Baudelaire, Baudelaire, Stacy Diamond. 1996
A modern English translation of the works of Baudelaire, a nineteenth-century French symbolist poet, writing on the effects of hashish,…
opium, and wine--the mind-altering drugs of his era. Contains Baudelaire's response in 1860 to Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (RC 24561). 1996Finding fish: a memoir
By Antwone Quenton Fisher, Antwone Q Fisher, Mim E Rivas, Antwone Q. Fisher, Mim E. Rivas. 2001
African American producer and screenwriter Antwone Fisher describes growing up a ward of the state in Cleveland in the 1950s.…
Born in prison to a single mother, he recounts betrayal by his foster mother, homelessness at age seventeen, the kindnesses of teachers and social workers, and years with the U.S. Navy. Some strong language. 2001Call me crazy: A Memoir
By Anne Heche. 2001
Memoir of thirty-one-year-old celebrity actress. Covers her abused childhood, therapy sessions, career, and success. Describes her lesbian affair with comedienne…
Ellen DeGeneres and her bout of insanity. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2001Battling demon rum: the struggle for a dry America, 1800-1933 (American Ways)
By Thomas R Pegram, Thomas R. Pegram. 1998
Traces the history of the temperance movement in America from colonial days to the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Probes…
the relationship between politics and the anti-liquor movement. Analyzes the power of the Anti-Saloon League and causes of the eventual failure of the Eighteenth Amendment. 1998Beyond the influence: understanding and defeating alcoholism
By Katherine Ketcham, William F. Asbury, Mel Schulstad, Arthur P. Ciaramicoli. 2000
Using scientific research, the authors make the case that alcoholism is a medical disease resulting from abnormalities in brain chemistry.…
Explains how to diagnose the condition and proposes that treatment programs include psychological and spiritual elements. Investigates fallacies promoted by the liquor industry. Foreword by former Senator George McGovern. 2000A man named Dave: a story of triumph and forgiveness
By David J Pelzer, Dave Pelzer. 1999
In this sequel to A Child Called It (DB 45004) and The Lost Boy (DB 46336), the author joins the…
air force and starts a family, while still suffering from the effects of his past abuse. His relationships with his son and second wife help Dave heal. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 1999