The author describes his childhood in California, his addiction to crystal meth and heroin at a young age, his relapse after eighteen months of sobriety, and his path to recovery.
Discusses the dangers of using heroin including its addictive properties, the challenges of treatment and recovery, and efforts to prevent its use and abuse.
Chronicles how sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought highly addictive black tar heroin to the United States, and looks at a pharmaceutical company's marketing campaign of OxyContin.
From front cover: "A great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin's death defying journey into the interior of heroin addiction in the 1960s and back out again".
A photographer in her late forties chronicles her friendship with a young man she has known since his childhood and tries to help him overcome a heroin addiction.
An exploration of heroin that discusses its effects on the body and brain, its negative effects on health, and offers advice on seeking help for an addiction.
