Amazing, amazing book about a boy who starts off as a stoner in college and goes through this downward spiral to heroin addicted felon in jail. It's a true story, his actual journal as he goes along. He meets a girl, Jenifer, and to watch the progression of the drug is like taking a page from any addict's life. There's comedy, sex, love, it's a great great story. You'll relate, you'll laugh, you'll cry. Just read it.

 

A fabulous true story of an alcoholic crack addict, and his quest for sobriety. It's been getting alot of attention because it was on the book club list of the famous female talk show host. This James Frey is an excellent writer, and keeps you glued to his writing. In an interview he said he wrote it in a style where you would become addicted to the book. It sure worked.

This is an amazing song a friend of mine wrote.  Since I've been in recovery he rewrote it for me, this is the version.  It is incredibly inspiring and I believe anyone can relate to it. Enjoy!

Book Description
For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goinse lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie! --

 

Stars Matt Dillon, Heather Graham and William S. Buroughs. Funny, especially if robbing a drugstore ever sounded like a good idea to you. But serious as well. Very good movie.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the prophetic storytelling of this man..quite simply..should. He manages to have his finger on the pulse of every generation from the 60's on. Although he would categorically deny this, I would beg to differ with the man himself. If you're looking for a conventionally good voice..look elsewhere..Dylan managed to break down the sterotypical need for one and became listened too for what he had to say...along the way you either fell in like with his odd vocal tone or didn't.

I did.

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Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. Her character is supposed to be loosely based on Courtney Love. Really good.

 If you have ever been dope sick with goosebumps, chills but sweating, puking and shiting all over because you are too sick to get up then you will relate to this book. If you haven't been there but want to know what you could be looking forward to, then read this book.

...first I tried to do just a little,but a little got more and more. Just keep trying to get a little better, said a little better than before... The vicious cycle of heroin addiction and why "using just once" just doesn't work.

An awesome book about the history of punk from 1965-1980. It's cool because instead of the authors just putting their spin on how it was, it's told with stories from the mouths of the people who were there: Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, DeeDee Ramone, Jim Caroll, etc. (coincidentally all heroin addicts). It covers the drug use and death of many important people in music.

The chores goes, "There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes."

 

A sad ballad about a soldier returning from the war with a drug habit.

 

 

Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat." This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well."

With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice--for not only the main characters but those in the background as well--brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) --Brangien Davis--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.