Books available on addiction : F

	Falconer By John Cheever ISBN: 0679737863
In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut - a professor, drug addict, and a fratricide - struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction.

	Freedom from Addiction Workbook by Neil T. Anderson, Mike Quarles, Julia Quarles ISBN: 0830719024
Based on their best-selling book Freedom from Addiction, this interactive workbook by Dr. Neil T. Anderson and Mike and Julia Quarles will help anyone apply the powerful Steps to Freedom in Christ directly to the addictive lifestyle.

	Gentleman Junkie : The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs By Graham Caveney ISBN: 0316137251
There have been several solid conventional biographies of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), and this imaginative consideration of his "life and legacy" does not seek to replace them. Instead, British scholar Graham Caveney concentrates on Burroughs as a cultural phenomenon whose unsettling ability to depict personal degradation with modernist detachment first awed contemporaries in the beat generation and continued through the 1990s to inspire artists as diverse as grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, painter Keith Haring, and film director David Cronenberg. Even before Naked Lunch became a literary and legal cause célèbre - the book was ultimately judged not obscene in a landmark 1966 court decision - Burroughs was a legend in avant-garde circles for his epic drug use, unabashed homosexuality, and adventurous prose. In later years he became an elder statesman of the counterculture, an icon of excesses survived, revered for his unflinching portraits of the existential abyss. Caveney astutely examines the appeal for Americans of this complex figure whose highly experimental work had more in common with that of such Europeans as Jean Genet than with pals like Allen Ginsberg. The book's design reflects its genre-bending aspirations: Caveney's text jostles against reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, and other documents, all of it laid out on pages colored red, orange, yellow, and blue. Words, images, and colors form an inventive whole that pays fitting tribute to a man who lived entirely by his own rules.

	Glory Goes and Gets Some By Emily Carter ISBN: 1566891019
How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary, urban America, steering clear of self-pity and doctrinaire “happy-talk”? This linked short story collection shows how Glory goes and gets some. Emily Carter’s debut traces Glory’s stay in Minnesota’s recovery community, from halfway houses in blighted urban neighborhoods to well-funded treatment centers in bucolic pastures. From her addictions to heroin and alcohol in New York through her unlikely, tenuous, yet rewarding alliances with the full range of treatment mavens in the midwest, Glory gives us an uncensored and irreverent account of her experiences in twelve-step recovery—a process that, for all its faults, ultimately works for her. “That first six months, there were an awful lot of people I met who talked the talk, all the time. Their faces seemed to glow, and they’d go on about so-and-so ‘getting it,’ ‘getting’ the program, having that much-touted aura of serenity about them. It was my experience that such persons usually relapsed and stole their roommate’s stereo equipment, or charged five thousand dollars worth of lingerie at Daytons.” 'Glory Goes and Gets Some' is a streetwise and sardonic look at sex, HIV, addiction, and recovery.

	Go Ask Alice By Anonymous ISBN: 0881030228 (USA) ISBN: 0749310545 (UK)
This is the story of a 15-year-old American drug addict. Based on the pages of her diary, it tells how Alice discovered drugs, sex and the kind of freedom her parents only disapproved of. Sometimes she worries about what is happening to her; sometimes she resorts to subterfuge to avoid worrying her family; and sometimes she confides all her anxieties, joys and sorrows to the one friend she can trust - her diary.

	"H.": Autobiography of a Child Prostitute and Heroin Addict By "Christiane F." S. Flatauer (Translator) ISBN: 0851404855 (USA), 0552117722 (UK)
The autobiography of a 15-year-old heroin addict, as told to two reporters from Stern magazine. View film details

	Heroin : Drug Dangers By Mary Ann Littell ISBN: 0766017389
Discusses the dangers of using heroin, its resurgence in popularity in the 1990s, some famous people who have died from heroin overdoses, and how to get help if you have a problem.

	Heroin: Its History and Lore By Julian Durlacher ISBN: 1858688604
From the Back Cover Whether we like it or not, drugs are a part of our world. Drugs are both vilified - in newspaper headlines and public health broadcasts - and glorified - in movies, music, and fashion. They continue to fascinate and horrify in equal measure, but drug-taking is a subject that none of us can afford to ignore. Discussion about drugs is often hampered by preconceptions on both sides, for and against, but this series aims to contribute impartially to the debate. Each book in the series concentrates on a particular drug and describes its invention or discovery and its transition to illegal and "recreational" use, tells the story of its misuse, lists some of the tragedies and scandals caused by misuse of drugs, outlines the physical and mental effects and side-effects of drug misuse, explains how and why the drug has come to occupy the position it does in society today. The authors also expose some of the most popular myths about drugs, and explain the reasons behind drug-taking and drug addiction, while recognizing that the two do not always go hand in hand. Heroin is perhaps the most demonized drug today - and rightly so, given its addictive nature. Its association with needles and syringes, and hence with the spread of HIV, has reduced its status still further. And yet even the case against heroin is not entirely black and white: criminalization, rather than the substance itself, could be seen as a cause of many of the problems we associate with heroin addiction, such as crime, prostitution, and infection. On the one hand, in Switzerland a revolutionary experiment is being carried out to see if addicts can live normal, responsible lives when they have a regular and safe supply of heroin. At the same time, in other western countries, vast amounts of money are spent each year in trying to stop the supply of heroin from poorer countries where the opium poppy is a major cash crop. Clearly it is time to reconsider how we control the taking of heroin and what we hope to achieve by doing so.

	Hooked Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Rehab System By Lonny Shavelson ISBN: 1565846842
A powerful critique of our current drug-rehab system, through the stories of the addicts inside it. Lonny Shavelson's 1995 book on euthanasia, A Chosen Death, spoke to us at the right time: it engaged that most difficult issue with such personally moving stories that it was serialized in People magazine, leading to uncommon book sales for serious nonfiction. Now Hooked comes as we are finally waking up to the inadequacies of our current drug-rehab policies. With court-mandated rehab being debated across the country, Shavelson's in-depth look at the struggles of five addicts as they travel through the treatment maze makes a powerful case for reform. Highly readable and shaped by Shavelson's experiences as a journalist and physician, Hooked takes us through the anguishing "intake" and controversial House meetings, inside counselors' and judges' offices where many treatment decisions are made, and to prison cells where, under current policies, many addicts end up. It explores the links between drug addiction, mental illness, and trauma, including child abuse—links often ignored by current rehab efforts—and argues for an integrated approach that treats the roots of drug abuse, not just the behavior itself. Sure to play a major role in the national debates, Hooked offers a provocative, honest look at the seemingly intractable issue of drug addiction, and offers powerful alternatives to our current policies. Illustrated with 24 black-and-white photographs.

	How to stop time : heroin from A to Z By Ann Marlowe ISBN: 0465031501 (USA) ISBN: 1860495427 (UK)
Don't expect to probe the mind of a woman whose life was ruined by heroin, because Ann Marlowe won't take you down that road. Instead, her provocatively structured memoir, How to Stop Time: Heroin from A To Z, follows the life of an upper-class addict who makes no apologies for the pictures she fails to paint. Marlowe is the antithesis of the junkie stereotype. Throughout her seven-year addiction, she never shot up, never lived on the street, and never resorted to selling drugs or her body to sustain her habit. In short, she never bottomed out. As a result, readers with the preconception that all druggies end up on the dark side may put this book down and ask, "What's interesting about her addiction?" Ironically, it is precisely this absence of severity that makes Marlowe's memoir intriguing. The fact that her own game with heroin ends in a draw gives her an unusual perspective on the friends, lovers, and dealers whose luck ran out and who lost everything. The memoir's alphabetically arranged entries read more like loosely connected essays than actual chapters, at times giving the book a slightly disjointed feel. She doles out the details of her addiction in bits and pieces, interjecting snippets of her youth, an acute look at the drug "problem" in the United States, and the gradual progression of her habit along the way. She describes her addiction as a method of slowing down time in an effort to impose order on her chaotic life, and a way of becoming vulnerable and daring all in one moment. Declaring it an act of free will, Marlowe speaks of a life with heroin as few have envisioned: one of restraint, consciousness, self-discipline, and very little guilt.

	How to Quit Drugs For Good By Jerry Dorsman ISBN: 0761515178
Jerry Dorsman outlines all viable approaches to addiction treatment and, through a series of worksheets and checklists, helps readers select the recovery methods that will work best for them. In addition, the author details important facts about each drug and reveals the potential for addiction, the elements of addiction, and the typical problems the addicted person faces. Information is based on up-to-the-minute research as well as the author's own clinical experience counseling drug-addicted clients and their families.