Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductiv...

The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller.This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you ar...

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE*After two prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies ...

A poignantly funny account of humorist and Greatest Living American Author Neal Pollack's years as a marijuana addict. Beginning innocently enough ...

Brian Pennie shouldnt be alive today. His drug addiction was so bad that he was deemed too much of a risk for detox. Determined to confront his dem...

Described as the Tony Hancock of journalism, for forty years Bernard wrote only about himself and the failures of his life with women, drink, doct...

Soul searching poetry for a new generation.Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Com...

A revelatory, moving narrative that offers a harrowing critique of the war on drugs from voices seldom heard in the conversation: drug users who ar...

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile,...

A bioethicists eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawala harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only ...

Your Life Can Be Different Do you feel ambushed by your obsessions? Addictions come in all forms: overindulging, overspending, overworking, and mor...