Showing posts with label addiction books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction books. Show all posts
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Craving Relief

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Why is it so hard for addicts to say “enough?” One of the useful things that may yet come out of the much-derided DSM-5 manual of menta...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

How to Kick Everything

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Christopher Kennedy Lawford on r ecovery. Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s ambitious, one-size-fits-all undertaking is titled Recover to L...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Addiction Books For the Beach

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When 50 Shades of Grey doesn’t cut it. The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment Carlton K. Erickson 312 pages Pub...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Books By Addicts: A Collection

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The Up and the Down.   (Click titles for full review) Steve Earle and the Ghost of Hank Williams: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Aliv...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

“Addiction Fiction”

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Coming-of-Age Drug Novels Call it “addiction fiction.” In the past few years we have seen a blossoming of this genre, where the private...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Book Review: Writers On The Edge

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A compendium of tough prose and poetry about addiction. Here’s a book I’m delighted to promote unabashedly. I even wrote a jacket blurb ...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

A River of Rage and Redemption

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An interview with writer James Brown. “Who could blame a reader, after James Frey's discredited 'A Million Little Pieces,' fo...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Love, Loss, and Addiction

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Review of “This River” by James Brown. James Brown, author of “ The L.A. Diaries, ” has offered up another candid and courageous memoir in...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A (Belated) Review of "The Los Angeles Diaries"

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A powerful—and true—memoir of addiction. I’ll admit it: I don’t like drug memoirs. I didn’t like drug memoirs even before James Frey blew u...
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