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Addiction
Addiction
by Barbara Gottfried Hollander
by Barbara Gottfried Hollander
Presents general information about addiction, including some of the different types of addiction, their causes, how they are treated, and how people with addictions cope with their symptoms.
Presents general information about addiction, including some of the different types of addiction, their causes, how they are treated, and how people with addictions cope with their symptoms.
Suggested Age: 14+
Available in the RJSHS Library
Lush
Lush
by Natasha Friend
by Natasha Friend
In addition to dealing with the normal stresses of a thirteen-year-old life, Samantha is forced to face the harsh reality of alcoholism within her own family as she tries to cope with her father's addiction and its devastating effects on those she loves the most.
In addition to dealing with the normal stresses of a thirteen-year-old life, Samantha is forced to face the harsh reality of alcoholism within her own family as she tries to cope with her father's addiction and its devastating effects on those she loves the most.
Suggested Age: 12+
Available in the RJSHS Library
Solo
Solo
by Kwame Alexander
by Kwame Alexander
From award-winning and bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes Solo, the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, who is being crushed between the scathing tabloids exposing his former rock-star-father's addictions and a protected secret that threatens his own identity. The answers to his past and future change everything he thought to be true.
From award-winning and bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes Solo, the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, who is being crushed between the scathing tabloids exposing his former rock-star-father's addictions and a protected secret that threatens his own identity. The answers to his past and future change everything he thought to be true.
Suggested Age: 14+
Available in the VRES and RJSHS Libraries
We All Fall Down
We All Fall Down
by Nic Sheff
by Nic Sheff
Sheff writes candidly about stints at in-patient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
Sheff writes candidly about stints at in-patient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
Suggested Age: 15+
Available in the RJSHS Library
Clean
Clean
by Amy Reed
by Amy Reed
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
Suggested Age: 14+
Available in the RJSHS Library
Smacked
Smacked
by Eilene Zimmerman
by Eilene Zimmerman
Drawing on extensive research and interviews to paint a picture of drug dependence today in a moneyed, upwardly mobile world, a journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband's unexpected death from drug abuse.
Drawing on extensive research and interviews to paint a picture of drug dependence today in a moneyed, upwardly mobile world, a journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband's unexpected death from drug abuse.
Suggested Age: Advanced
Available in the RJSHS Library
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