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Drinking
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Caroline Knapp |
Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor… |
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Drunken angel
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Alan Kaufman |
"Alan Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of the alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the PTSD that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that brought him back. So… |
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Lit
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Mary Karr |
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suic… |
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Barefoot to Avalon
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Payne, David |
After witnessing his younger brother's tragic death in an auto accident in 2000, the author found that his life was spiraling out of control. From a cocktail hour indulgence, his drinking became a fu… |
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Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
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John Callahan |
Cartoonist John Callahan's dark (but still inspiring) memoir of his troubled family history, and his battles to recover from alcoholism and to function in life as a quadrapalegic. |
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The End of My Addiction
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Olivier Ameisen |
What if you there were a cure for addiction--a medication that eradicates the need for a fix? This is the story of Olivier Ameisen, a brilliant physician and cardiologist who developed a profound add… |
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