ex-drug addicts

Former addict Rain Thomas can't shake her remorse for giving up her baby when she was 16, after learning that the baby's father had died in Iraq. On her way to a job interview, she borrows a pair of reading glasses, and through a small crack in one lens sees a boy running down the aisle of a subway car, screaming. Without the glasses, she sees no boy. She begins hearing voices and her day gets even stranger. Worried that she might be going insane, Rain begins questioning what is real and what is a nightmare.

Journalist Patrick Moore describes twenty years of his life as a crystal meth addict, in which he details being raised by an alcoholic artist grandmother, hallucinations in Los Angeles, anonymous sex in New York City's eighties clubs, colorful characters, and more.

Ricky Rice, a middle-aged, small-time hustler, and the sole survivor of a suicide cult, is working as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until a letter arrives summoning him to Vermont, where he joins with a group of people searching for the source of the disembodied voice they have all heard at some point in their lives and that may or may not be God.

Carl Hart, a neuroscientist, recalls his journey of self-discovery, examining the relationship among drugs, pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society.