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Author
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Most books on recovery from addiction focus either on the addict or the family. While most alcoholics and addicts coming out of treatment have a recovery plan, families are often left to figure things out for themselves. The author takes a fresh approach to the recovery process by making family members and friends part of the reecovery team, beginning in the early stages of sobriety.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Wittels Wachs's younger brother Harris died of a heroin overdose, she didn't know how to make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance. Here she alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, and the first year after his death. Even in all its emotional devastation, this exploration of the love between siblings will make you laugh, cry ... and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit...
Author
Publisher
Acorn Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A window into the tragedy and impacts the opioid crisis is having on families across America. Part 1 of The Last Stop is a memoir about losing a son, David, to heroin addiction. Through David's letters, intimate scenes of an addict's lifestyle are exposed in real, raw, and vivid detail. Addiction turned David into a stranger who lied, manipulated, and denied his drug use for years. His heartbreaking journey deepens as he takes his family with him...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous...
8) S.O.B.E.R.*: *son of a bitch everything's real ; a story of addiction told by a mother and her son
Author
Publisher
Anita Devlin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
S.O.B.E.R.* offers a rare glimpse at the daily, all consuming relationship between family and addiction, told simultaneously from a mother's view and an addict's perspective.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening.
In town, Emory is the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. When she and Joey were in the car accident that killed...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Every autumn, Kenny Porpora would watch his heartbroken mother scribble messages on balloons and release them into the sky above Long Island, one for each family member they'd lost to addiction. As the number of balloons grew, his mother fell deeper into alcoholism, drinking away her sorrows every night in front of the television, where her love of Regis Philbin provided a respite from the sadness around her. When their house was foreclosed upon,...
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