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J. P. Beaumont's in an Arizona alcohol rehab center and none too happy. His roommate is a sleazy teenage drug dealer. The kid turns up shot dead with Beaumont's own .38. The local law comes after the recovering PI. The people responsible for killing the kid don't just want to frame J.P. for the murder, they want him to be the next victim.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her...
4) Clean
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Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
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272 p. ; 22 cm.
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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.
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Hazelden
Pub. Date
2014.
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xvi, 184 pages ; 22 cm
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Citing formidable recovery rates for people addicted to prescription opiates or heroin, a guide inspired by the experiences of addicts in long-term recovery outlines treatment approaches based on new understandings about opiate addiction.
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"Leaving Breezy Street is the account of a woman who had to make the best out of tough situations and limited options. A testimony on how the cycle of abuse can be perpetuated-but also broken. Proof of the transformation power of love between biological and chosen family. This is the raw truth of what American life can be like for so many people"--
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
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256 pages cm
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"Dan Peres wasn't born to be a media insider. As an awkward, magic-obsessed adolescent, nothing was further from his reality than the catwalks of Paris or the hallways of glossy magazine publishers. A gifted writer and shrewd cultural observer, Peres eventually took the leap-even when it meant he had to fake a sense of belonging in a new world of famed fashion designers, celebrities, and some of media's biggest names. But he had a secret: opiates."--Amazon.com....
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Addict in the House offers a pragmatic, step-by-step guide to dealing with a loved ones addiction, from accepting the reality of the disease to surviving what may be repeated cycles of recovery and relapse. Youll learn how to encourage your addicted loved one to get help without forcing it, and finally find the strength to let go of codependence.
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Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2012
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn't seen in a long while. Anders is smart, handsome, and from a good family, but he is deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted and all the people he has let down.
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OWLS Media
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a criminal court judge starts a running club on LA's notorious skid row and trains a motley group of addicts and criminals to run marathons, lives begin to change. Skid Row Marathon follows five runners as the rise from the mean streets of LA to run marathons around the world, fighting the pull of homlessness and addiction at every turn. Not everyone will succeed. Their story is one of hope, friendship, and dignity.
11) Clean
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Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
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1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Emily Wang is a woman whose past is riddled with drugs and regrets. As a result, her husband, Lee, is found dead in a desolate motel room in Hamilton, Ontario, and landed Emily with a six-month jail sentence. The only thing that she desires for the future is a loving relationship with her son Jay, who is being cared for by Lee's parents, Albrecht and Rosemary. While Rosemary blames Emily for Lee's death, Albrecht recognizes the importance of the bond...
12) Four good days
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Vertical Entertainment
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After leaving a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while spending the next four days with her mother.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
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The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
16) Fix
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Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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To keep Leo out of prison, his brother Milo and Milo's reluctantly-involved girlfriend Bella, have 15 hours to raise $5,000 to pay for his rehab. As the clock ticks, the unlikely trio races through Beverly Hills' mansions, East L.A. chop shops and Watts' housing projects, all in the hope to find the money they need by any means necessary.
17) Candy
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
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