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Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Argues that addicts do not have to hit bottom and interventions do not have to be confrontational, explaining, step by step, how to intervene in a loving and effective way, getting a loved one ready to accept help for alcohol or drug addiction.
5) Save Me
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English
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When Mark - a young gay man addicted to sex and drugs - hits bottom, his concerned brother checks him into a Christian retreat in the New Mexico desert. Run by a compassionate husband and wife team, Gayle and Ted have made it their life's mission to cure young men of their 'gay affliction' through spiritual guidance. But after Mark bonds with fellow resident Scott and their relationship evolves, they are forced to confront their true selves. Featuring...
7) Run away
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English
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"You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark...
8) Dark Places
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English
Description
Keri Walker thinks she has hit rock bottom. A drug addicted prostitute, Keri has seen the darkest side of life... until her life takes a turn for the worse. During one more in a long line of illicit sex-for-money transactions, Keri must defend herself and inadvertently kills her attacker.
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English
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ACTS OF WORSHIP is a story of addiction, friendship loss and redemption focusing on the relationship between Alix (Ana Reeder), a young homeless addict and Digna (Michael Hyatt), a successful photographer in Manhattan's Lower East Side. When Digna discovers Alix unconscious on the stairs of her building, she steps in and offers help despite her own fears. Digna befriends Alix and attempts to set her on the path to recovery but not before their emotional...
10) All fall down
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her mother's barely dealing at all. As she struggles to hold her home and work life together,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This is excellent reportage which says all that needs to be said in the best and simplest way possible. -- Kirkus James Mills, a reporter for Life magazine, drew upon his firsthand experience of New York City's junkie underworld to create this harrowing, fictionalized account of the tragic love affair between two junkies. Mills spent months with Bobby, a small-time street hustler, and Helen, a middle-class Midwesterner reduced to prostitution. Mills's...
13) Ulee'S Gold
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English
Description
A solitary beekeeper experiences heartache and danger as he struggles to protect his troubled family.
14) In My Pocket
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English
Description
Under his best friend's influence, Stephen Jameson (Gregory Smith - Rookie Blue, The Patriot) falls into the vortex of drug addicts and loses himself in the grungy L.A club scene. Forced by his family to quit his college med-school, Stephen enters into Second Chances Rehabilitation Center. In this dark environment, he encounters many twisted personalities, each one of them leading him to the wrong path repeatedly, preventing him from divorcing his...
15) Consent
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Language
English
Description
A wealthy Manhattan family's inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol, and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them.
16) generation Um…
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Language
English
Description
After partying in New York City last night, John and his beautiful girlfriends Mia and Violet form an intimate bond as their deepest secrets from their past are revealed.
17) Long way home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On the surface, Cameron Douglas's life seemed golden: descended from Hollywood royalty, son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas; born into a life of wealth, privilege, and comfort; growing up in mansions in California and Mallorca and a luxurious apartment in New York City. It was a life of near unlimited potential. But by the age of thirty, that life had taken a hellish dive. Douglas became a drug addict, a thief, and--after a DEA drug bust--a...
18) The truth about addiction and recovery: the life process program for outgrowing destructive habits
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Emphasizes self-help and treatment through coping with stress and achieving one's goal as a recovery method from addictive behaviors.
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