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Author :Spellman Bernard Smith AKA Sir Dog Jr. Publisher :Page Publishing Inc ISBN 13 :1684565073 Total Pages :57 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (845 download)
Book Synopsis Saga of a Crack Addict by : Spellman Bernard Smith AKA Sir Dog Jr.
Download or read book Saga of a Crack Addict written by Spellman Bernard Smith AKA Sir Dog Jr. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saga of a Crack Addict is a book that can be described as being as much as a textbook as it's a novel. The purpose is to share and educate you of a man who found something that proved to be more than he could handle. Hopefully, you won't try this. It's actually more powerful than a locomotive.
Book Synopsis Saga of a Crack Addict by : Spellman Bernard Smith AKA Sir Dog Jr.
Download or read book Saga of a Crack Addict written by Spellman Bernard Smith AKA Sir Dog Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saga of a Crack Addict is a book that can be described as being as much as a textbook as it's a novel. The purpose is to share and educate you of a man who found something that proved to be more than he could handle. Hopefully, you won't try this. It's actually more powerful than a locomotive.
Book Synopsis The War on Drugs IV by : James A. Inciardi
Download or read book The War on Drugs IV written by James A. Inciardi and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very readable introduction presents a series of perspectives and reflections on the worlds of drug-taking, drug-seeking and public policy. It looks candidly at the world of drug and alcohol use, abuse, and control, presenting many sides of major issues, the history and patterns of abuse, and coverage of the major drugs (heroin, cocaine, crack, prescription drugs, marijuana, amphetamines, hallucinogens, and club drugs).
Book Synopsis The Night of the Gun by : David Carr
Download or read book The Night of the Gun written by David Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.
Book Synopsis What Are the Odds? by : Lindell Publishing
Download or read book What Are the Odds? written by Lindell Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis S Street Rising by : Ruben Castaneda
Download or read book S Street Rising written by Ruben Castaneda and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country's premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix. Castaneda's remarkable book, S Street Rising, is more than a memoir; it's a portrait of a city in crisis. It's the adrenalin-infused story of the street where Castaneda quickly became a regular, and where a fledgling church led by a charismatic and streetwise pastorwas protected by the local drug kingpin, a dangerous man who followed an old-school code of honor. It's the story of Castaneda's friendship with an exceptional police homicide commander whose career was derailed when he ran afoul of Mayor Marion Barry and his political cronies. And it's a study of the city itself as it tried to rise above the bloody crack epidemic and the corrosive politics of the Barry era. S Street Rising is The Wire meets the Oscar-winning movie Crash. And it's all true.
Book Synopsis The Man I Was Destined to Be by : Michael Tandoi
Download or read book The Man I Was Destined to Be written by Michael Tandoi and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael was twenty-seven years old, his lengthy battle with drug addiction resulted in a seven-year prison sentence. It would take three years and the death of his father before he realized that his former life prevented him from becoming the man his father hoped he would be. Walking the road to recovery enabled him to change his life and become the man he was destined to be.
Download or read book Beautiful Things written by Hunter Biden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter Biden recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today
Book Synopsis I Am a Heroin Addict by : Ritchie Farrell
Download or read book I Am a Heroin Addict written by Ritchie Farrell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of compelling honesty. The writing is so powerful, so brutally sure of voice and experience that the reader is immediately jolted straight into the hellish existence of addiction." - Mary McGarry Morris, New York Times Bestselling Author "I am a Heroin Addict" was previously published as "What's Left of Us" by Kensington in 2009. However, there was no heroin epidemic at the time. Today, the opioid epidemic has become America's worst health crisis ever. Accidental drug overdoses killed more people in 2015 than HIV/AIDS at its 1995 peak. Heroin is a Beast, and that Beast has infiltrated every town and city in America. The Beast has come for your sons and daughters. The Beast is hunting for your fathers and mothers. And that Beast has only one mission, to bury as many Americans as possible. Farrell's ultimate goal is that his life story brings hope to all those suffering through the insidious trap of opioid addiction. "I am a Heroin Addict" is the story of how Ritchie Farrell survived a 10-bag-a-day heroin habit to become a bestselling author, WGA screenwriter, and recipient of the prestigious du-Pont-Columbia Award for excellence in journalism. "In the stripped-down, busted-and-back voice of a man with absolutely nothing left to hide, Farrell gives us this deeply moving tale of addiction and redemption. I am a Heroin Addict is a rush of blood to the head and heart, the kind that only true art can deliver." Andre Dubus III, New York Times Bestselling Author "How Ritchie Farrell survived his life, I'll never know." - Scott Silver, Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter of 8 Mile and The Fighter "A wild ride from start to finish. Riveting." - Chris Cooper, Academy Award Winning Actor "Ritchie Farrell's raw and visceral writing grabs you, slams you into the soul of an addict, and doesn't let go until you experience the courage it takes to wage a life-or-death war against your inner demons." Harry Ufland, Producer of The Last Temptation of Christ "It is a testament to Farrell's stunning writing power that he carries you on this rollercoaster ride of ugliness and beauty. Don't miss it." - Phyllis Karas, New York Times Bestselling Author
Book Synopsis THE Dummyboi SAGA by : Alan K. Stanley
Download or read book THE Dummyboi SAGA written by Alan K. Stanley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dummyboi Saga... In this laugh now, cry later, coming of age tale; a teenage gangster, Sigger P. Stanley, while nearing adulthood, behaves well beyond his years, operating as a soldier inside a local drug cartel. Strategically, he navigates his way through adolescence, fighting to win battles in the high-stakes vintage war of good against evil. But which side is he on? Set in the poverty stricken inner-city of Southside Goings (Donald County), Little Sigger showcases his deep desires for money and women, his fascination with love, and his never-ending chess game with the streets. Will he stay honorable and loyal to his gang, aligning with the visions his leaders have for him? Or will his ambition for control and independence of self lead him down a path headed straight for the grave?
Book Synopsis Great White Surf Saga: Books 1 - 5 by : Nikki Chartier
Download or read book Great White Surf Saga: Books 1 - 5 written by Nikki Chartier and published by Nicole Chartier. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haley Sullivan is on a mission to chase her forever down on the West Coast. But falling in love wasn't part of that mission... especially since she's falling for the enemy... Dive into the world of Great White Surf in Crescent Cove, California! Fall in love, find your tribe, chase your dreams, and live like Shark with the first FIVE books of this YA/NA contemporary coming of age series! Fans of Outer Banks and Surviving Summer will love this friend-focused series with glimpses of romance, surf culture, and beach vibes! Great White Surf Saga Chasing Forever Down (#1) Rough Waters (#2) Always Summer (#3) With You Around (#4) Deep Blue Forever (#5) Chasing Swells (#6) Chasing Aloha (#7) Chasing Islands (#8) More books coming soon!
Book Synopsis Through the Crack by : Charrita D Danley
Download or read book Through the Crack written by Charrita D Danley and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Crack is the heart-warming story of three women who are bound to one another by the common blood that flows through their veins. Though Vickie Morgan-Stevenson believes in God, she has no true relationship with Him. In her state of addiction, she tells lies, cheats and steals to support her habit. Ultimately, her life becomes the battleground of war between the Truth of God and the Lie of the Enemy. Vickies single, saved and sanctified sister, Vanessa Morgan, has her middle-class lifestyle in the city disrupted when she is forced to accept her sisters addiction and put her own life on hold. Upon her return to the Mississippi Delta, she assumes Vickies responsibilities, including caring for her eighteen year old daughter, Vonshay, who finds her life in turmoil as she grapples with the choices her mother has made. The novel traces the womens journey from addiction to recovery as it exposes their individual desires to avoid being smothered by family responsibilities and relationships. The characters faith in God sustains them through the laughter and the tears as they learn the true meaning of unconditional love.
Book Synopsis Street Corner Symphony by : Robert L. Glover
Download or read book Street Corner Symphony written by Robert L. Glover and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drugs, guns, and violence-all are a part of American urban culture. Street Corner Symphony shares the dark side of the urban experience and how one man becomes ensnared in its web. Regardless of race, color, or creed, many families become embroiled in this culture, turning their American dream into a nightmare. Author Robert Lee Glover shares his personal story of tragedy and triumph through the urban landscape of drugs and violence. But Glover also points out the things in life that make us great, and how we are at our best when life seems to be at its worst. Street Corner Symphony will give hope to those with family members involved with drugs and assure them that it is not their fault. Glover's intimate journey through the horrors of drugs is also filled with redemption and spiritual awakening. Most importantly, Glover stresses that there is still hope for all of us, no matter what we have done or the life we have led. With strength, faith, and optimism, anything is possible.
Book Synopsis Fellows in Arms: A 21st Century Teaching Saga by : Aaron Roston
Download or read book Fellows in Arms: A 21st Century Teaching Saga written by Aaron Roston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-02-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story begins as war stories often do: as a call to arms. In the wake of 9/11, Aaron Roston joined the New York City Teaching Fellows program, created to parachute elite career-changers into the schools euphemistically known as hard-to-staff. Thousands answered the call; few were chosen. 25 members of Roston's class began their service in 2002; by the summer of 2005, only 7 remained in the system. FELLOWS IN ARMS is the view from the sharp end of educational reform, and dramatizes what the term teacher accountability really means. The story of idealistic teachers in urban school settings has become cliche. But FELLOWS IN ARMS is different: It uses memoir, history and reportage to create a narrative that finds humor and drama in equal measure. No dry policy book, this is the maddening, sometimes tragic, often comic saga of what ensued when the school bell sounded.
Download or read book Chancers written by Susan Stellin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful memoir of addiction, prison, and recovery, a reporter and a photographer tell their gripping story of falling in love, the heroin habit that drove them apart, and the unlikely way a criminal conviction brought them back together. Books for a Better Life Award Finalist • LitHub Best Book of the Month When Susan Stellin asked Graham MacIndoe to shoot her author photo for an upcoming travel book, she barely knew him except for a few weekends with mutual friends at a summer house in Montauk. He was a gregarious, divorced Scotsman who had recently gotten sober; she was an independent New Yorker who decided to take a chance on a rough-around-the-edges guy. But their relationship was soon tested when Susan discovered that Graham still had a drug habit he was hiding. From their harrowing portrayal of the ravages of addiction to the stunning chain of events that led to Graham’s arrest and imprisonment at Rikers Island, Chancers unfolds in alternating chapters that offer two perspectives on a relationship that ultimately endures against long odds. Susan follows Graham down the rabbit hole of the American criminal justice system, determined to keep him from becoming another casualty of the war on drugs. Graham gives a stark, riveting description of his slide from brownstone Brooklyn to a prison cell, his gut-wrenching efforts to get clean, and his fight to avoid getting exiled far away from his son and the life he built over twenty years. Beautifully written, brutally honest, yet filled with suspense and hope, Chancers will resonate with anyone who has been touched by the heartache of addiction, the nightmare of incarceration, or the tough choice of leaving or staying with someone who is struggling on the road to recovery. By sharing their story, Susan and Graham show the value of talking about topics many of us are too scared to address. Praise for Chancers “Stellin and MacIndoe, in entries sometimes akin to fighters in the ring, tell the story of their lives as MacIndoe rides a roller-coaster life of drug addiction and prison. . . . [Chancers] grabs in a voyeuristic way and propels page-turning to find out what happens next in a saga no soap opera could create.”—The Buffalo News “Emotionally resonant and evenly structured, their tandem chronicle resists overly romanticizing their bittersweet interactions to focus on the dedication and devotion necessary to make their already-complicated relationship survive the fallout of critical hardships. An emotionally complex and intensely personal binary memoir of addiction and sustainable love.”—Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis Empire of Pain by : Patrick Radden Keefe
Download or read book Empire of Pain written by Patrick Radden Keefe and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.
Book Synopsis Voices of Mental Health by : Martin Halliwell
Download or read book Voices of Mental Health written by Martin Halliwell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental health at a time when health activists, advocacy groups, and public figures were all speaking out about the needs and rights of patients; and the concept of voice in literature, film, memoir, journalism, and medical case study that connects the health experiences of individuals to shared stories. Together, these three dimensions bring into conversation a diverse cast of late-century writers, filmmakers, actors, physicians, politicians, policy-makers, and social critics. In doing so, Martin Halliwell’s Voices of Mental Health breaks new ground in deepening our understanding of the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium.
