rehabilitation

An account of a teenager's drug addiction and his recovery.

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.

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.

Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.

Dr. Michael Stein provides an account of the treatment, relapse, and long-term recovery of Lucy, a young woman who came to him for help in ridding herself of a prescription drug addiction, and provides insights into how doctors think about addiction, their decision-making process, and how addiction should be regarded and treated.

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.

Presents the author's first-hand account of his recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, beginning with his enrollment in a Minnesota rehabilitation center after a two-week blackout and ending with his rejection of all Twelve Step programs.

Torey Hayden worked hard to release Sheila, a six year old abandoned child, from her non-speaking nightmare. The full story was told in Hayden's first book, One Child. She then lost touch with Sheila until she encountered her seven years later, now a gangly teenager. Sheila was still troubled and searching for answers. Once again Sheila found the help she needed as Torey helped in her transition from teenager to young womanhood.