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Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud: Relapse and the Symptoms of Sobriety
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Scott Stevens (Goodreads Author)
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Naked Lunch
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3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 32,531 ratings
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Cottonmouth Kisses
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Clint Catalyst
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Prozac Nation
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 26,552 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Hunter S. Thompson
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 117,982 ratings
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
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Nikki Sixx
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,286 ratings
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
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Jack Kerouac
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 3,786 ratings
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Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
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Sebastian Horsley
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Junky
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 21,132 ratings
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The Shores We Walk
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Rocky Existence
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Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
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Nic Sheff
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 12,605 ratings
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Go Ask Alice
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 103,967 ratings
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Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Caresses Soft as Sandpaper
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Scar Tissue
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Anthony Kiedis
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 17,822 ratings
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Permanent Midnight
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Jerry Stahl
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Valencia
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,558 ratings
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Will Work for Drugs
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Lydia Lunch
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
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Thomas de Quincey
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
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Lit: A Memoir
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Mary Karr
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 9,604 ratings
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Full Force
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Mid Ocean
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 120 ratings
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A Million Little Pieces
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 118,456 ratings
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Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
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Mary Woronov
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Drug Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
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Chris Thrall (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Elephant Tree
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R.D. Ronald
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 2,189 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Drug Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
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Chris Thrall (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Story of Junk
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Linda Yablonsky
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
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Bill Clegg
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 1,396 ratings
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Godspeed
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Lynn Breedlove
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Diary of a Drug Fiend
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Aleister Crowley
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Brainstorms: An Expression of Depression (Little Episodes Volume 2)
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Melvin Burgess
4.7 of 5 stars 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Guilty But Insane
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Poppy Z. Brite
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Fukt 2 Start With: Short Stories & Broken Werd
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Zombie Room
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
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Sex, Drugs, and Being an Escort
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Tommy Lee
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 10,756 ratings
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User: A Novel
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Bruce Benderson
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Crystal Diary
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Frankie Hucklenbroich
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Speed Queen
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Stewart O'Nan
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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David Sheff
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 20,669 ratings
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Beauty Queen
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 600 ratings
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Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir
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James Salant
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 733 ratings
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The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness
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Natalie Jeanne Champagne (Goodreads Author)
4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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I am Ozzy
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 7,273 ratings
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More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,942 ratings
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98 Wounds
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Justin Chin
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction
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Marni Mann (Goodreads Author)
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 532 ratings
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City of Night
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Rx
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3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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Leaving Las Vegas
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Crystal Clear: The Inspiring Story of How an Olympic Athlete Lost His Legs Due to Crystal Meth and Found a Better Life
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Eric Le Marque
4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller
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Cookie Mueller
4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Dry
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 44,584 ratings
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Facing the Dragon: How a Desperate Act Pulled One Addict Out of Methamphetamine Hell
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David Parnell
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings
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35 Cents
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
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Marc Lewis
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
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Bill Clegg
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Shuck
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Medicine Burns: And Other Stories
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Adam Klein
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Running Away from Me
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Up from Down: A True Story of Recovery from Addiction
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
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Rich Roll
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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Lips Unsealed: A Memoir
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3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Divine Innocence
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Rainbow Colored Eyes (Playland of the Kings #1)
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unSweetined
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
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What the Early Worm Gets
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Scott Stevens (Goodreads Author)
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 351 ratings
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سنگر و قمقمههای خالی
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Professional Idiot: A Memoir
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Stephen Glover
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Junkie: Bekenntnisse eines unbekehrten Rauschgiftsüchtigen
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 21,132 ratings
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Dreamseller
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Speed Needles
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2.5 of 5 stars 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Permanent Obscurity: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Almost Transparent Blue
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3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
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Zoo Station [A Memoir] The Story of Christiane F.
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Christiane F.
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 5,314 ratings
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Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict
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Joshua Lyon
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Cherry
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 4,272 ratings
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Professional Idiot: A Memoir
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Dopefiend: A Father's Journey from Addiction to Redemption
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4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Truth According to an Insane Black Dopefiend
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Nita
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Confessions Of A Dopefiend
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Fabulous Hell
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3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7,816 ratings
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Squandering the Blue: -- Stories
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Kate Braverman
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Lithium for Medea: A Novel
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 148 ratings
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3.13 of 5 stars 3.13 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Corpse Delectable
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Back in 5 Minutes - an expression of depression
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Tweaked
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3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 169 ratings
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What's Left of Us
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 110 ratings
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We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
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Nic Sheff
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 918 ratings
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