Drugs

Deze boeken verkennen veranderde bewustzijnstoestanden en middelengebruik door middel van rauwe persoonlijke verhalen, culturele geschiedenissen en filosofische onderzoeken naar psychoactieve ervaringen. Of ze nu de verwoestende greep van verslaving, tegenculturele bewegingen of de grenzen van menselijke waarneming onderzoeken, deze werken confronteren de complexe realiteiten van drugs in de samenleving en in individuele levens.

Drugs Boeksamenvattingen

You Are But Dust

door Hannah Clayton

At her sister's funeral, Samarra meets Death: a charming man offering to end her pain.

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👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💀 Personified Death 🌀 Addiction Spiral 🖤 Grief As Horror 🌫️ Hallucinatory Reality

Immersief

You Are But Dust

At her sister's funeral, Samarra meets Death: a charming man offering to end her pain.

door Hannah Clayton 2025 302 pagina's

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👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💀 Personified Death 🌀 Addiction Spiral 🖤 Grief As Horror 🌫️ Hallucinatory Reality

The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

door Allen Carr • 2005

Remove the desire to drink, and quitting becomes not a sacrifice but a celebration.

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🍺 Alcohol Addiction 🔄 Addiction Reframing 🎉 Joyful Sobriety 🚫 Abstinence Mindset 🛑 Quitting Alcohol

The Easy Way to Stop Drinking Samenvatting

Immersief

The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

Remove the desire to drink, and quitting becomes not a sacrifice but a celebration.

door Allen Carr 2005 272 pagina's

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🍺 Alcohol Addiction 🔄 Addiction Reframing 🎉 Joyful Sobriety 🚫 Abstinence Mindset 🛑 Quitting Alcohol

Persuader

door Lee Child • 2003

Reacher rescues a boy and joins a crime family to catch the man he left for dead.

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🪖 Ex-Military Protagonist ⚖️ Vigilante Justice 💊 Drug Smuggling 🕵️ Undercover Mission 🕴️ Family Crime Empire

Persuader

Reacher rescues a boy and joins a crime family to catch the man he left for dead.

door Lee Child 2003 496 pagina's

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🪖 Ex-Military Protagonist ⚖️ Vigilante Justice 💊 Drug Smuggling 🕵️ Undercover Mission 🕴️ Family Crime Empire

The Power of the Dog

door Don Winslow • 2005

A DEA agent helps a Mexican cop who becomes the drug lord he'll hunt for decades.

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🖤 Drug War Saga 👮 Obsessed Lawman 👑 Family Crime Dynasty 🕵️ High-Stakes Informant 🌃 Cynical Noir Tone

The Power of the Dog

A DEA agent helps a Mexican cop who becomes the drug lord he'll hunt for decades.

door Don Winslow 2005 542 pagina's

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🖤 Drug War Saga 👮 Obsessed Lawman 👑 Family Crime Dynasty 🕵️ High-Stakes Informant 🌃 Cynical Noir Tone

Boy Swallows Universe

door Trent Dalton • 2018

In 1980s Brisbane, a boy finds a red telephone that spills his family's deadly secrets.

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🖤 Dark Coming-Of-Age 🕶️ Literary Noir 👬 Brotherly Bond 👴 Criminal Mentor 👥 Family Secrets

Boy Swallows Universe

In 1980s Brisbane, a boy finds a red telephone that spills his family's deadly secrets.

door Trent Dalton 2018 474 pagina's

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🖤 Dark Coming-Of-Age 🕶️ Literary Noir 👬 Brotherly Bond 👴 Criminal Mentor 👥 Family Secrets

In het rijk van de hongerige geesten

door Gabor Maté • 2007

Addiction begins in childhood trauma, not moral failing. Healing needs compassion, not punishment.

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🧠 Addiction Psychology 💔 Trauma And Addiction 🩹 Harm Reduction 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🌱 Addiction Recovery

In het rijk van de hongerige geesten

Addiction begins in childhood trauma, not moral failing. Healing needs compassion, not punishment.

door Gabor Maté 2007 522 pagina's

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🧠 Addiction Psychology 💔 Trauma And Addiction 🩹 Harm Reduction 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🌱 Addiction Recovery

Down the Drain

door Julia Fox • 2023

An Italian girl follows her erratic father to New York. Survival will mean constant reinvention.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 💉 Addiction Recovery 🌍 Immigrant Childhood ⛓️ Sex Work 🔥 Raw And Unflinching

Down the Drain

An Italian girl follows her erratic father to New York. Survival will mean constant reinvention.

door Julia Fox 2023 318 pagina's

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 💉 Addiction Recovery 🌍 Immigrant Childhood ⛓️ Sex Work 🔥 Raw And Unflinching

A Street Cat Named Bob

door James Bowen • 2012

An injured ginger stray saves a struggling busker from heroin, one shoulder ride at a time.

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🧑‍⚕️ Addiction Recovery 🐈 Human-Animal Bond 🏠 Homelessness Memoir 🏡 Animal Rescue 🐱 Cat Memoirs

A Street Cat Named Bob

An injured ginger stray saves a struggling busker from heroin, one shoulder ride at a time.

door James Bowen 2012 280 pagina's

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🧑‍⚕️ Addiction Recovery 🐈 Human-Animal Bond 🏠 Homelessness Memoir 🏡 Animal Rescue 🐱 Cat Memoirs

Dark Alliance

door Gary Webb • 1998

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Dark Alliance

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

door Gary Webb 1998 601 pagina's

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Boulevard

door Flor M. Salvador • 2020

Two damaged teens, one secret boulevard, and a love that can't stop the coming storm.

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😢 Tragic Romance 🧲 Opposites Attract 💔 Damaged Hero 🔺 Love Triangle 💊 Substance Abuse

Boulevard

Two damaged teens, one secret boulevard, and a love that can't stop the coming storm.

door Flor M. Salvador 2020 316 pagina's

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😢 Tragic Romance 🧲 Opposites Attract 💔 Damaged Hero 🔺 Love Triangle 💊 Substance Abuse

The Black Ice

door Michael Connelly • 1993

A cop's suicide note lures Harry Bosch into a border drug war and a deadly masquerade.

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📋 Police Procedural 🕶️ Hardboiled Detective 💀 Fake Death 🌵 Border Noir 💊 Drug Cartels

The Black Ice

A cop's suicide note lures Harry Bosch into a border drug war and a deadly masquerade.

door Michael Connelly 1993 439 pagina's

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📋 Police Procedural 🕶️ Hardboiled Detective 💀 Fake Death 🌵 Border Noir 💊 Drug Cartels

Tweak

door Nic Sheff • 2008

Eighteen months sober, one relapse, and he's back on the street. A meth memoir with no filter.

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🖋️ Addiction Memoir 💎 Crystal Meth 🔄 Cycle Of Relapse 🚶 Street Life 👶 Early Onset Addiction

Tweak

Eighteen months sober, one relapse, and he's back on the street. A meth memoir with no filter.

door Nic Sheff 2008 336 pagina's

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🖋️ Addiction Memoir 💎 Crystal Meth 🔄 Cycle Of Relapse 🚶 Street Life 👶 Early Onset Addiction

A Scanner Darkly

door Philip K. Dick • 1977

An undercover agent addicted to a brain-splitting drug is assigned the target: himself.

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🏙️ Near-Future Dystopia 📖 Literary Sci-Fi 🎭 Dual Identity Crisis 👁️ Surveillance Paranoia 💊 Addiction Spiral

A Scanner Darkly

An undercover agent addicted to a brain-splitting drug is assigned the target: himself.

door Philip K. Dick 1977 217 pagina's

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🏙️ Near-Future Dystopia 📖 Literary Sci-Fi 🎭 Dual Identity Crisis 👁️ Surveillance Paranoia 💊 Addiction Spiral

I Forgot to Die

door Khalil Rafati • 2015

How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🌑 Heroin Addiction 🏚️ Homelessness

I Forgot to Die

How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.

door Khalil Rafati 2015 183 pagina's

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🌑 Heroin Addiction 🏚️ Homelessness

Fearless

door Eric Blehm • 2012

Addiction. A jail cell. Then a spot on SEAL Team Six. The transformation of Adam Brown.

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🦭 Navy Seals 🎖️ Military Biography 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🌅 Redemption Arc ✝️ Christian Testimony

Fearless

Addiction. A jail cell. Then a spot on SEAL Team Six. The transformation of Adam Brown.

door Eric Blehm 2012 257 pagina's

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🦭 Navy Seals 🎖️ Military Biography 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🌅 Redemption Arc ✝️ Christian Testimony

Demon Copperhead

door Barbara Kingsolver • 2022

Born to an addict mother, Demon navigates Appalachian foster care and the opioid epidemic.

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🏔️ Appalachian Fiction 💊 Opioid Crisis 📖 Modern Retelling 👦 Orphaned Protagonist 🫂 Found Family

Demon Copperhead

Born to an addict mother, Demon navigates Appalachian foster care and the opioid epidemic.

door Barbara Kingsolver 2022 560 pagina's

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🏔️ Appalachian Fiction 💊 Opioid Crisis 📖 Modern Retelling 👦 Orphaned Protagonist 🫂 Found Family

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

door Hunter S. Thompson • 1971

Journalist and attorney tear through Vegas on a drug-fueled hunt for the American Dream.

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📰 Gonzo Journalism 💊 Drug Trip 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🇺🇸 1970s America

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Journalist and attorney tear through Vegas on a drug-fueled hunt for the American Dream.

door Hunter S. Thompson 1971 204 pagina's

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📰 Gonzo Journalism 💊 Drug Trip 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🇺🇸 1970s America

That Was Then, This Is Now

door S.E. Hinton • 1998

Bryon and Mark were like brothers, until Mark's drug dealing forced an impossible choice.

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🏚️ Gritty Realism 💔 Doomed Friendship 🏠 Found Family ⚖️ Moral Awakening 🕰️ 1970s America

That Was Then, This Is Now

Bryon and Mark were like brothers, until Mark's drug dealing forced an impossible choice.

door S.E. Hinton 1998 159 pagina's

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🏚️ Gritty Realism 💔 Doomed Friendship 🏠 Found Family ⚖️ Moral Awakening 🕰️ 1970s America

Naked Lunch

door William S. Burroughs • 1959

A junkie fleeing the law plunges into a surreal city where addiction drives every transaction.

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🚫 Transgressive Fiction 🥁 Beat Generation ✂️ Experimental Novel 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎛️ Control Systems

Naked Lunch

A junkie fleeing the law plunges into a surreal city where addiction drives every transaction.

door William S. Burroughs 1959 289 pagina's

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🚫 Transgressive Fiction 🥁 Beat Generation ✂️ Experimental Novel 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎛️ Control Systems

Marching Powder

door Rusty Young • 2003

A prison where inmates buy cells and a British smuggler leads tours for backpackers.

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⛓️ Prison Memoir 🧳 Drug Smuggling 💰 Prison Economy 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎒 Backpacker Encounters

Marching Powder

A prison where inmates buy cells and a British smuggler leads tours for backpackers.

door Rusty Young 2003 401 pagina's

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⛓️ Prison Memoir 🧳 Drug Smuggling 💰 Prison Economy 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎒 Backpacker Encounters

Tremendous

door Joey "Coco" Diaz • 2023

Homeless at twenty-one, sleeping in a rocket ship. How Joey Diaz traded crime for stand-up.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 💊 Addiction Memoirs 🔫 Criminal Past 🏙️ Street Hustle 💔 Childhood Trauma

Tremendous

Homeless at twenty-one, sleeping in a rocket ship. How Joey Diaz traded crime for stand-up.

door Joey "Coco" Diaz 2023 280 pagina's

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 💊 Addiction Memoirs 🔫 Criminal Past 🏙️ Street Hustle 💔 Childhood Trauma

Basketball Junkie

door Chris Herren • 2011

33rd NBA pick, he started for the Celtics while shooting heroin. The words that broke him open.

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🏅 Sports Memoirs 💊 Addiction Memoirs 🌅 Recovery Narratives 💉 Heroin Addiction 🏀 Basketball Careers

Basketball Junkie

33rd NBA pick, he started for the Celtics while shooting heroin. The words that broke him open.

door Chris Herren 2011 308 pagina's

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🏅 Sports Memoirs 💊 Addiction Memoirs 🌅 Recovery Narratives 💉 Heroin Addiction 🏀 Basketball Careers

True Hallucinations

door Terence McKenna • 1993

In 1971, five seekers entered the Amazon. The mushrooms talked back, and time unraveled.

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🧠 Psychedelic Memoirs 🌿 Shamanic Initiation 👽 Alien Intelligence 🔮 Speculative Cosmology ☯️ I Ching Divination

True Hallucinations

In 1971, five seekers entered the Amazon. The mushrooms talked back, and time unraveled.

door Terence McKenna 1993 256 pagina's

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🧠 Psychedelic Memoirs 🌿 Shamanic Initiation 👽 Alien Intelligence 🔮 Speculative Cosmology ☯️ I Ching Divination

El Narco

door Ioan Grillo • 2011

US drug habits and a broken state turned Mexican bootleggers into a paramilitary insurgency.

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📜 Drug War History 🕵️‍♂️ Organized Crime 💰 Cartel Economics 🛡️ State Corruption ⚔️ Insurgency

El Narco

US drug habits and a broken state turned Mexican bootleggers into a paramilitary insurgency.

door Ioan Grillo 2011 336 pagina's

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📜 Drug War History 🕵️‍♂️ Organized Crime 💰 Cartel Economics 🛡️ State Corruption ⚔️ Insurgency

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

door Jack Herer • 1992

Cannabis was outlawed not for public safety, but to protect timber, oil, and newspaper empires.

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🌿 Cannabis History 🏭 Industrial Hemp 🚫 Drug Prohibition ♻️ Renewable Resources 💊 Medical Cannabis

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Cannabis was outlawed not for public safety, but to protect timber, oil, and newspaper empires.

door Jack Herer 1992 291 pagina's

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🌿 Cannabis History 🏭 Industrial Hemp 🚫 Drug Prohibition ♻️ Renewable Resources 💊 Medical Cannabis

Slash

door Slash • 2007

The story of Guns N' Roses: squalor, stadiums, and the addiction that burned it down.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 💔 Band Breakups 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎵 Music Industry 🕶️ 80s Rock Scene

Slash

The story of Guns N' Roses: squalor, stadiums, and the addiction that burned it down.

door Slash 2007 458 pagina's

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 💔 Band Breakups 💉 Heroin Addiction 🎵 Music Industry 🕶️ 80s Rock Scene

Psychedelics

door David J. Nutt • 2023

Psychedelics quiet the brain's default patterns; a single dose can lift depression for months.

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🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🧠 Neuroplasticity 🩹 PTSD Recovery ✨ Mystical Experience 🔗 Addiction Recovery

Psychedelics

Psychedelics quiet the brain's default patterns; a single dose can lift depression for months.

door David J. Nutt 2023 307 pagina's

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🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🧠 Neuroplasticity 🩹 PTSD Recovery ✨ Mystical Experience 🔗 Addiction Recovery

The Dirt

door Tommy Lee • 2001

One authorized biography, four versions of every disaster, and zero effort to agree on the facts.

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📖 Oral History 🎸 Rock Memoirs 🥂 Fame And Excess 🤘 Glam Metal 💉 Addiction Recovery

The Dirt

One authorized biography, four versions of every disaster, and zero effort to agree on the facts.

door Tommy Lee 2001 431 pagina's

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📖 Oral History 🎸 Rock Memoirs 🥂 Fame And Excess 🤘 Glam Metal 💉 Addiction Recovery

Go Ask Alice

door Beatrice Sparks • 1971

A lonely teen's diary begins with hope, but a spiked drink sends her into drug addiction.

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📓 Diary Format ⚠️ Cautionary Tale 🏃‍♀️ Runaway Teen 🖤 Confessional 🌑 Dark And Gritty

Go Ask Alice

A lonely teen's diary begins with hope, but a spiked drink sends her into drug addiction.

door Beatrice Sparks 1971 185 pagina's

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📓 Diary Format ⚠️ Cautionary Tale 🏃‍♀️ Runaway Teen 🖤 Confessional 🌑 Dark And Gritty

Pryor Convictions

door Richard Pryor • 1995

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Pryor Convictions

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

door Richard Pryor 1995 261 pagina's

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Empire of Pain

door Patrick Radden Keefe • 2021

How one family created the opioid crisis, then hid behind the world's great museums.

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💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏢 Corporate Crime 👑 Family Dynasties 💉 Opioid Epidemic 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Empire of Pain

How one family created the opioid crisis, then hid behind the world's great museums.

door Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 535 pagina's

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💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏢 Corporate Crime 👑 Family Dynasties 💉 Opioid Epidemic 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Heroine

door Mindy McGinnis • 2019

A softball catcher starts OxyContin to heal. She keeps using it to hide.

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🖤 Teen Addiction 🦴 Sports Injury 💊 Opioid Addiction 🥎 Athlete Protagonist 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Heroine

A softball catcher starts OxyContin to heal. She keeps using it to hide.

door Mindy McGinnis 2019 419 pagina's

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🖤 Teen Addiction 🦴 Sports Injury 💊 Opioid Addiction 🥎 Athlete Protagonist 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Dope

door Benjamin T. Smith • 2021

State agents, not traffickers, first unleashed the worst violence of Mexico’s drug war.

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🇲🇽 Mexican Drug War 💰 Drug Trafficking ⚔️ War On Drugs 🏛️ State Corruption 🕴️ Organized Crime

The Dope

State agents, not traffickers, first unleashed the worst violence of Mexico’s drug war.

door Benjamin T. Smith 2021 464 pagina's

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🇲🇽 Mexican Drug War 💰 Drug Trafficking ⚔️ War On Drugs 🏛️ State Corruption 🕴️ Organized Crime

Savages

door Don Winslow • 2010

To free their kidnapped girlfriend, two pot growers must rob the cartel that took her.

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🔫 Narco Thriller 🌴 California Noir 💕 Throuple 🎖️ Ex Military Hero 🔪 Kidnapping Ransom

Savages

To free their kidnapped girlfriend, two pot growers must rob the cartel that took her.

door Don Winslow 2010 302 pagina's

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🔫 Narco Thriller 🌴 California Noir 💕 Throuple 🎖️ Ex Military Hero 🔪 Kidnapping Ransom

The Sober Truth

door Lance Dodes • 2014

Addiction is not a disease, AA works 5% of the time, rehab is a 90k mirage.

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🍺 AA Criticism 🧠 Anti-Disease Model 🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy 💰 Rehab Industry Critique 📋 Evidence-Based Treatment

The Sober Truth

Addiction is not a disease, AA works 5% of the time, rehab is a 90k mirage.

door Lance Dodes 2014 192 pagina's

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🍺 AA Criticism 🧠 Anti-Disease Model 🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy 💰 Rehab Industry Critique 📋 Evidence-Based Treatment

Your Knife, My Heart

door K.M. Moronova • 2025

She's a mafia killer. He destroys every partner. One cell, no escape, and a fatal attraction.

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⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forced Proximity 💀 Deadly Trials 🖤 Trauma Bonding 💊 Addicted Hero

Your Knife, My Heart

She's a mafia killer. He destroys every partner. One cell, no escape, and a fatal attraction.

door K.M. Moronova 2025 304 pagina's

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⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forced Proximity 💀 Deadly Trials 🖤 Trauma Bonding 💊 Addicted Hero

The Basketball Diaries

door Jim Carroll • 1978

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

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🖤 Addiction Memoir 🗽 1960s New York 🏀 Sports As Salvation 🏚️ Gritty Realism 📓 Teenage Diarist

The Basketball Diaries

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

door Jim Carroll 1978 224 pagina's

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🖤 Addiction Memoir 🗽 1960s New York 🏀 Sports As Salvation 🏚️ Gritty Realism 📓 Teenage Diarist

You'd Be Home Now

door Kathleen Glasgow • 2021

When a fatal crash exposes her brother's addiction, she becomes the family's invisible caretaker.

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💊 Sibling Addiction 🤫 Secret Relationship 📢 Slut-Shaming 💉 Opioid Crisis 🕊️ Survivor Guilt

You'd Be Home Now

When a fatal crash exposes her brother's addiction, she becomes the family's invisible caretaker.

door Kathleen Glasgow 2021 387 pagina's

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💊 Sibling Addiction 🤫 Secret Relationship 📢 Slut-Shaming 💉 Opioid Crisis 🕊️ Survivor Guilt

The Compass of Pleasure

door David J. Linden • 2010

Drugs, food, sex, and charity run through the same brain circuit. What that means for addiction.

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🧠 Dopamine And Reward 💉 Addiction Neurobiology 🍔 Food And The Brain 🔄 Compulsive Behaviors 🧩 Neuroplasticity

The Compass of Pleasure

Drugs, food, sex, and charity run through the same brain circuit. What that means for addiction.

door David J. Linden 2010 240 pagina's

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🧠 Dopamine And Reward 💉 Addiction Neurobiology 🍔 Food And The Brain 🔄 Compulsive Behaviors 🧩 Neuroplasticity

Crime & Punishment

door Russell Marks • 2015

Prison punishes disadvantage, not crime. The alternatives that reduce reoffending work elsewhere.

4.08

🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 🇦🇺 Australian Politics 🤝 Restorative Justice 🧠 Therapeutic Jurisprudence 💰 Justice Reinvestment

Crime & Punishment

Prison punishes disadvantage, not crime. The alternatives that reduce reoffending work elsewhere.

door Russell Marks 2015 226 pagina's

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🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 🇦🇺 Australian Politics 🤝 Restorative Justice 🧠 Therapeutic Jurisprudence 💰 Justice Reinvestment

A Million Little Pieces

door James Frey • 2003

Rehab said he was powerless. He disagreed. A raw recovery memoir built on total self-reliance.

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💊 Addiction Memoir 🎯 Radical Accountability 🔑 Choice-Based Recovery 💔 Trauma And Addiction ✍️ Unflinching Memoir

A Million Little Pieces

Rehab said he was powerless. He disagreed. A raw recovery memoir built on total self-reliance.

door James Frey 2003

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💊 Addiction Memoir 🎯 Radical Accountability 🔑 Choice-Based Recovery 💔 Trauma And Addiction ✍️ Unflinching Memoir

Less Than Zero

door Bret Easton Ellis • 1985

Home from college, Clay drifts through LA parties where the glamour hides something rotting.

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🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💸 Rich Kid Ennui 👁️ Passive Narrator 💊 Drug-Fueled Descent 🫥 Numb Detachment

Less Than Zero

Home from college, Clay drifts through LA parties where the glamour hides something rotting.

door Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pagina's

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🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💸 Rich Kid Ennui 👁️ Passive Narrator 💊 Drug-Fueled Descent 🫥 Numb Detachment

The Black Hand

door Chris Blatchford • 2008

He was the Mexican Mafia's most brutal enforcer. Then he became its greatest target.

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🇲🇽 Mexican Mafia 🕴️ Organized Crime ⛓️ Prison Gangs 🚪 Gang Defection 🕵️ Criminal Informants

The Black Hand

He was the Mexican Mafia's most brutal enforcer. Then he became its greatest target.

door Chris Blatchford 2008 352 pagina's

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🇲🇽 Mexican Mafia 🕴️ Organized Crime ⛓️ Prison Gangs 🚪 Gang Defection 🕵️ Criminal Informants

Crank

door Ellen Hopkins • 2004

At her addict father's, a good girl tries meth and fractures into a reckless double.

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💉 Addiction Fiction 🎭 Verse Novel 👥 Dual Identity 🌀 Good Girl Unraveling 💔 Toxic First Love

Crank

At her addict father's, a good girl tries meth and fractures into a reckless double.

door Ellen Hopkins 2004 537 pagina's

4.16

100.000+ beoordelingen

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Health and Safety

She found transcendence in raves and drugs, then captivity in her partner's mental collapse.

door Emily Witt 2024 264 pagina's

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door Harlan Coben • 2014

Father's grave: only ashes. Mickey Bolitar hunts a secret rescue network, a missing boy, a killer.

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Found

Father's grave: only ashes. Mickey Bolitar hunts a secret rescue network, a missing boy, a killer.

door Harlan Coben 2014 326 pagina's

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Your body runs on cannabinoids. A guide to using cannabis for pain, nausea, and neuroprotection.

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Cannabis Pharmacy

Your body runs on cannabinoids. A guide to using cannabis for pain, nausea, and neuroprotection.

door Michael Backes 2013 320 pagina's

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A secret phone, hidden blood, a decade of lies: a Tour winner tells all.

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From addiction to sobriety in 365 days: a daily rebuild that succeeds when willpower collapses.

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The Addiction Manifesto

From addiction to sobriety in 365 days: a daily rebuild that succeeds when willpower collapses.

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4.72

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door Meredith Westgate • 2021

A photographer and dancer meet in Malibu rehab, each unsure whose memories are really theirs.

3.43

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The Shimmering State

A photographer and dancer meet in Malibu rehab, each unsure whose memories are really theirs.

door Meredith Westgate 2021 320 pagina's

3.43

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