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Book List: Substance Abuse
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These books deal with the harsh realities of substance abuse and its effects on the main characters, as well as the people around them.

 

Nonfiction

The Dirt by Motley Crue

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Chasing a High by Kyle Keegan

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir by Patrick Moore

Leaving Dirty Jersey: a Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant 

My Bloody Life: the Making of a Latin King and Once a King, Always a King: the Unmaking of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez 

Lady Q: the Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen by Reymundo Sanchez and Sonia Rodriguez

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff & its companion book Beautiful Boy: a Father's Journey Through his Son's Addiction by David Sheff

The Heroion Diaries: a Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

 
Fiction

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

The 25th Hour by David Benioff

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Gym Candy by Carl Deuker

A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard by James Frey

St. Iggy by K. L. Going

Blood Brothers by S. A. Harazin

Crank , Glass , and Fallout by Ellen Hopkins

Stoner and Spaz by Ronald Koertge

Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte

Rx by Tracy Lynn

Recovery Road by Blake Nelson

Surf Mules by Greg Neri

Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby

Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen

Rooftop by Paul Volponi

Falling by Doug Wilhelm



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