Any recommendations for “addiction” books?

Published May 23, 2013

Question by auseralostsoul: Any recommendations for “addiction” books?
I like to read books about drug addiction, eating disorders, everything relating to that. 🙂 Has anyone read any really good books like Go Ask Alice, Cut, any of them?

Best answer:

Answer by patriotnutrients
snowblind is a classic story about the cocaine culture and one man’s descent into it.. if you are looking for a book about how to get out of an addiction problem, then check out jack trimpey’s “rational recovery”

Answer by Romili
i like books on those subjects, i read go ask alice, u shud read ‘portrait of a teenage alcoholic’, ‘a child called it’

Bill – Recovery Story – Bill’s story of addiction and recovery.

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