Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Jack London and his Alcoholic Memoirs

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Meet John Barleycorn. In the early years of the 20th Century, writer Jack London was the equivalent of a rock star. A ruggedly good-...
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Author’s Debut is a Tough, Lyrical Addiction Memoir

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"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."  –Prof. Irwin Corey I’ve never made a ...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Addiction Inbox (D)Evolves Into Paperback

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A curated collection of blog posts in print. Online is where journalism is happening now, but it is a truism that most of the world’s r...
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...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Dawn or Dusk for Marijuana in the Emerald Triangle?

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New book chronicles Mendocino’s “ganjapreneurs” Every morning in California, thousands of marijuana growers wake up believing they are on...
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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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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

What It Means to Say Alcoholism is Genetic

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One woman’s journal. From Insanity to Serenity , by Tommi Lloyd Excerpts: "I was born in 1963 in Toronto, Canada, to a family s...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Review: Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

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“I’m a drug addict turned neuroscientist.” What’s it like to swallow 400 milligrams of dextromethorphan hydrobromide, better known as Romi...
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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 18, 2012

Book Review: Addiction Noir

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  The Next Right Thing by Dan Barden To date, I’ve only reviewed one novel here at Addiction Inbox—Steve Earle’s I’ll Never Get Out of ...
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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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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Book Review of "Drunken Angel"

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A hipster gets his shit straight—sort of. Addiction memoirs remain one of the most popular forms of autobiography on the shelves. But now...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Falling Down and Getting Up: Nic Sheff’s New Addiction Book

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  Sheff jumps back on the carousel, lives to tell about it. What would it be like to have written a drug memoir and an autobiography befo...
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