women alcoholics

"Hugh "Shuggie" Bain spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Hismother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for hissiblings. Dreaming of a house with its own front door and ordering happiness on credit as her husband philanders, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good but finds solace in drink. As she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety, Agnes's addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close toher-- especially her beloved Shuggie"--Adapted from dust jacket.

In graphic novel format, this book follows author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and from work, punctuated by recollections of sexual encounters as well as memories of her battle with alcoholism, addiction, and recovery. As she moves through the world navigating banal, familiar, and sometimes uncomfortable interactions with the familiar-faced strangers she sees daily, Williams weaves together a collection of flashbacks.

An autobiography of Glennon Doyle Melton discussing her life of secrets and addiction, and how she committed herself to living without secrets and recovery.

The author discusses her relationship with alcohol, telling how she began drinking at the age of fourteen and continued drinking for the express purpose of getting drunk, bolstering her courage, or medicating her moods, and sharing the reasons why she decided to give up alcohol nine years later.

The author discusses her relationship with alcohol, telling how she began drinking at the age of fourteen and continued drinking for the express purpose of getting drunk, bolstering her courage, or medicating her moods, and sharing the reasons why she decided to give up alcohol nine years later.

Studies the role alcohol plays in women's lives and discusses why women are so vulnerable to alcohol abuse.

Hildy Good, a successful real-estate broker, good neighbor, mother, and grandmother living in a small town on Boston's North Shore, is also an alcoholic, and after an intervention staged by her family, feels lonely and persecuted; she thinks that moderation is the key to her drinking problem, and in addition finds herself embroiled in the underbelly of her New England town, where secrets and scandal seethe.

Jennifer Storm chronicles her battle with drug and alcohol addiction, describing how she used her addictions as a way of dealing with personal traumas and failures, and shares how she managed to get her life back on track.