In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as a crystal meth and heroin addict. Now in this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic...
Drug addicts
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Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:A young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. Canadian constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters investigate whether this is a drug deal gone wrong or something more sinister.
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Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. While this should be an open-and-shut drug case, restraint marks on the victim suggest that the...
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Auteur:Sheff, NicSommaire:Drug addict Nic Sheff always believed he could quit whenever he needed to, until a violent relapse one summer convinced him otherwise. Here is his raw, compelling story of the depths of addiction and the road to recovery.
- Auteur:Trejo, DannySommaire:
On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He's been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he's a...
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Auteur:Woods, JaneSommaire:A CNQ Editors’ Book of the Year. Does faith insist upon the spotless soul? Can intellectual integrity and an honest search for the holy in this world survive a collision with religious mania? Is heavenly forgiveness possible this side...
- Auteur:Krilanovich, GraceSommaire:
A band of hobo vampire junkies roam the Pacific Northwest of the 1990s as a girl with drug-induced ESP searches for her missing foster sister.
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Auteur:Matheson, GrantSommaire:Before opioids destroyed Grant Matheson's career, he was a pillar of his community. Respected physician, loving husband, devoted father, and trusted friend. Grant was a straight-laced kid who grew up to be a clean-living adult. No...
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Auteur:Coleman, JaQuavisSommaire:Hazel has nothing and no one in her life; the only thing she "owns" is an insatiable addiction to heroin. Her addiction brings her to the slums, where she quickly learns the tricks of surviving--of hustling and getting her street smarts...
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Auteur:Mitchell, Tracey HeltonSommaire:After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good.
- Auteur:Thompson, Kelly S.Sommaire:
With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters’ relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an...
- Auteur:Ward, JesmynSommaire:
The searing and profound odyssey of a Southern family. Confronting the realities of life in the rural South, Ward gives us an epochal story, a road novel through Mississippi's past and present that explores the bonds of family as tested...
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Auteur:Bourgois, Philippe I.Sommaire:This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors...
- Auteur:Marston, DonnaSommaire:
Small informative book about a Mother's journey of what she learned and how she healed through the years of her son's drug addiction and recovery.
- Auteur:Bentley, TyroneSommaire:
With a drug addict mother and a drug lord father, Aphtan learns how to fend for herself at an early age. Being the princess of an empire has its perks-until her father gets arrested. From stealing clothes and food to committing fraud,...
- Auteur:Heather, O'NeillSommaire:
Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father Jules is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby...
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Auteur:Grey, AndrewSommaire:A Love Means... Story Bart van Andren, aka Spider, has been running away from life with a lot of chemical help. When he wakes up in a hospital, he discovers he’s picked up a champion. Duane must see something in Bart no one else ever...
- Auteur:Moore, LizSommaire:
A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has suddenly gone missing amid a series of mysterious...
- Auteur:Kindred, DaveSommaire:
Jared Kindred left his home and family at eighteen, choosing to wander America on freight trains and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred...
- Auteur:Fournelle, KimSommaire:
Maintenant en parfait contrôle de ses pouvoirs après avoir reçu l’éducation de Karmina, Tyffanie prend la mission des Dieux entre ses mains. Elle se lance dans la quête qu’ils lui ont octroyée sans se poser plus de questions, mais la...
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