Addictarium - Original, Complete IV Part Novel: A Heroin Abuse & Recovery Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (998 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01L4LDUVO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 581 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Thought Provoking, fast-paced and original
From the beginning drama ensues, when her closest confidante and companion, Karen Frodge, is pimped out and eventually back on the needle. When photography student, wild child, and self-anointed "creative, nomadic Spirit," Danielle Martino finds herself curled in a ball on the cold tile floors of her filthy rank bathroom in the tiny studio she rents with her fiancé and partner-in-crime, she knows it's time to quit abusing heroin. But when he ends up her very own counselor, it becomes obsession for the pair, and in a place filled with corrupt staff members, and deranged and disturbed residents, he is everything Martino believes she needs during her year in Safe Haven's phase 2 building.. Severely impaired from shooting "bad dope," and already partially blind from the infection that the poisoned bag has caused, she is forced to hitch a greyhound bus to New York City, and to abandon her care-free, American-bohemian, drug infested life-style.Upon her arrival to Manhattan, she is immediately admitted to
Depth to Addiction - Good, quick read Danielle Martino is our heroin(e) and addict. Her thought processes, decisions and vulnerabilities are bared as the main character in Nicole D'Settemi's Addictarium.The novel outlines life at The Village, an addiction treatment facility in New York, where it seems that everyone is doing anything but getting better. Drugs, sex, death, scandal and toxic, twisted re. "Sad but true" according to J Kahele. I have read many addiction books but never have I read a book that defines truth as well as this book did.The author did not hide behind a screen when she details the story of Danielle. It was sad, abusive and raw.Every character was finely detailed in their actions and defined perfectly.Great read.. Gritty I had a hard time reading this book. It is a difficult story that is being told. Even with the author stating it is fiction based upon experience, it is still a painful story. The main character is Danielle. She has been in rehab for a year and is now in the part acclimating her return to society. The book opens with Danielle continuing drug use and getting invol