drug addicts

Harm reduction is a philosophy that accepts the idea that drug use is inevitable and that making it safer is a more realistic approach to drug addiction. Examines issues with the concept of harm reduction and discusses if making risky behavior safer is the right solution.

Presents the memoir of Domenica Ruta and the relationship she had with her drug addict mother.

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.

Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. But by the age of 32 he had become a drug addict, an armed robber, and-- after a DEA drug bust-- a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he began to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that has tormented him for years, and prepare for what will be a profoundly challenging, but eventually deeply satisfying and successful re-entry into society at large.

Relates the story of a young man and a new minister who fifty years earlier encountered a terrible tragedy and while the minister renounces his ministry the young man leaves his hometown only to fight the demons inside of him with addiction, but these two men once again meet up and the young man realizes that revival has more than one meaning.

"Explores the history of alcohol, its effects on the body, the laws and policies concerning it, the ramifications of addiction, and the road to recovery"--Amazon.

"When word got out that Tiffany Jenkins was withdrawing from opiates on the floor of a jail cell, people in her town were shocked. Not because of the twenty felonies she'd committed, or the nature of her crimes, or even that she'd been captain of the high school cheerleading squad just a few years earlier, but because her boyfriend was a Deputy Sherriff, and his friends--their friends--were the ones who'd arrested her. [This book] . . . spans Tiffany's life as an active opioid addict, her 120 days in a Florida jail where every officer despised what she'd done to their brother in blue, and her eventual recovery"--Provided by publisher.

Offers a look inside a heroin treatment program and features true-life stories.

Discusses addiction including symptoms, treatments, and how to cope with it.

Former professional skateboarder Brandon Novak discusses how his drug addiction cost him his career and ruined his life, but how with the support system of his friends--which includes Bam Margera and others--was able to overcome his dependence on heroin.