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Overcoming Addiction
Check out these inspirational stories from people who have hit rock bottom and lived to tell the tale.
Broken: my story of addiction and redemption by William Cope Moyers with Katherine Ketcham
Fall to pieces: a memoir of drugs, rock 'n' roll, and mental illness by Mary Forsberg Weiland
Guts: the endless follies and tiny triumphs of a giant disaster by Kristen Johnston
Drinking: a love story by Caroline Knapp
The heroin diaries: a year in the life of a shattered rock star by Nikki Sixx ; with Ian Gittins
Long past stopping: a memoir by Oran Canfield
An officer and a junkie: from West Point to the point of no return by Michael Winder
The night of the gun: a reporter investigates the darkest story of his life, his own by David Carr
Scar tissue by Anthony Kiedis ; with Larry Sloman
Pill head: the secret life of a painkiller addict by Joshua Lyon
Portrait of an addict as a young man: a memoir by Bill Clegg
Trainwreck: my life as an idoit by Jeff Nichols
Lit: a memoir by Mary Karr