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Crack'd Up, Crackhead Tales of Addiction and Recovery
If the cookies in your conversation are not the ones you eat... you may be a crackhead. In Crack'd Up you meet the comedian. Inspired by the humor of Jeff Foxworthy, this character captures a jail cell audience with laughter and truth.
If you are not sure you are a crackhead, check out Crack'd Up, Crackhead Tales of Addiction and Recovery. When you take that first hit of crack, you rarely foresee a future traveling in and out of jails and/or institutions. JSO Spiritual Retreats 1 & 2 and Chez JSO, Today's Word and Dog Lady are tales from the jail cell.
Looking for Oz takes place in a lockdown rehab. Worse than jail sometimes, there's life on the streets shuffling through the endless pursuit of the next hit. CeeCee and Ez E, Jessie and Cherrie and Sweet Pea are prime examples of where crack can take you.
If your jit drives your car more than you do... you may be a crackhead. The life of an addict is more than the addict's tale; it encompasses dealers as well as users. Whitebread, Southside T and The Avon Lady give a different perspective on the addict as they see them. Lee gives you a unique slant of a dealer in love with an addict and the trials that come with living with a user. If you are sitting in your million-dollar mansion, family and friends have deserted you, bankrupt, life in disgrace, contemplating suicide but only after you finish one more hit... you may be a crackhead.
Crack addiction is a growing epidemic that touches not only the addict but families and society as a whole. For those readers, Crackd Up, Crackhead Tales of Addiction and Recovery provides a realistic portrait of the addict from that first hit into the revolving cycle of jails, institutions and finally death. However, that is not the end; there is hope. Recovery is Possible and many crackheads do succeed in attaining a life of recovery.
While the images within Crack'd Up can be disconcerting for the addict in recovery, an active addict can identify with the scene, which is what is hoped for. If an addict can identify with the story, they can also internalize that they too can find recovery just as many of these characters have. There is humor, hope and tragedy just as we all experience in life.
A perfect gift for the friend or family member in jail or rehab. Society's Children, The Meeting, Sandi and even Crack'd Up, offer ideas of what the rooms of recovery can offer for the addict ready to seek change. By providing stories of people in the rooms who have succeeded; stories where peoples lives have been changed for the better along with stories of relapse and death; the hope is that the reader will want to avoid the pitfalls of relapse and find out what really goes on in those rooms they've just read about. Maybe they too, can be finally free from the compulsion of using.
While there are no instructions, no self-help hints and no biblical passages, there is mention of the rooms and a Higher Power. It is our belief that the reader will gain self-awareness of his/her addiction and want to investigate further. Crack'd Up, Crackhead Tales of Addiction and Recovery is meant to be a tool, not the answer; a key but not the door. Without your help, more addicts will continue to make their way through the revolving door of our jails and institutions. Why not try a new title by someone who has lived through it and now is living a life in recovery living life on life s terms without drugs and alcohol.
If you are not sure you are a crackhead, check out Crack'd Up, Crackhead Tales of Addiction and Recovery. When you take that first hit of crack, you rarely foresee a future traveling in and out of jails and/or institutions. JSO Spiritual Retreats 1 & 2 and Chez JSO, Today's Word and Dog Lady are tales from the jail cell.
Looking for Oz takes place in a lockdown rehab. Worse than jail sometimes, there's life on the streets shuffling through the endless pursuit of the next hit. CeeCee and Ez E, Jessie and Cherrie and Sweet Pea are prime examples of where crack can take you.
If your jit drives your car more than you do... you may be a crackhead. The life of an addict is more than the addict's tale; it encompasses dealers as well as users. Whitebread, Southside T and The Avon Lady give a different perspective on the addict as they see them. Lee gives you a unique slant of a dealer in love with an addict and the trials that come with living with a user. If you are sitting in your million-dollar mansion, family and friends have deserted you, bankrupt, life in disgrace, contemplating suicide but only after you finish one more hit... you may be a crackhead.
Crack addiction is a growing epidemic that touches not only the addict but families and society as a whole. For those readers, Crackd Up, Crackhead Tales of Addiction and Recovery provides a realistic portrait of the addict from that first hit into the revolving cycle of jails, institutions and finally death. However, that is not the end; there is hope. Recovery is Possible and many crackheads do succeed in attaining a life of recovery.
While the images within Crack'd Up can be disconcerting for the addict in recovery, an active addict can identify with the scene, which is what is hoped for. If an addict can identify with the story, they can also internalize that they too can find recovery just as many of these characters have. There is humor, hope and tragedy just as we all experience in life.
A perfect gift for the friend or family member in jail or rehab. Society's Children, The Meeting, Sandi and even Crack'd Up, offer ideas of what the rooms of recovery can offer for the addict ready to seek change. By providing stories of people in the rooms who have succeeded; stories where peoples lives have been changed for the better along with stories of relapse and death; the hope is that the reader will want to avoid the pitfalls of relapse and find out what really goes on in those rooms they've just read about. Maybe they too, can be finally free from the compulsion of using.
While there are no instructions, no self-help hints and no biblical passages, there is mention of the rooms and a Higher Power. It is our belief that the reader will gain self-awareness of his/her addiction and want to investigate further. Crack'd Up, Crackhead Tales of Addiction and Recovery is meant to be a tool, not the answer; a key but not the door. Without your help, more addicts will continue to make their way through the revolving door of our jails and institutions. Why not try a new title by someone who has lived through it and now is living a life in recovery living life on life s terms without drugs and alcohol.
150 pages, Paperback
Published May 5, 2008
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