Summary: Emily is a woman struggling with drug addiction. When her fading rock-star husband Lee overdoses on drugs, Emily finds herself abandoned by her friends and family. Custody of her young son Jay is granted to Lee's parents, Albrecht and Rosemary. Albrecht, however sensitive to Emily's plight, demands that she change her life before re-establishing a relationship with her son. Motivated by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Manufactured and marketed by Palm Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLEPacker, Alex J.
Summary: This book takes the principles of the 12 step recovery programs and applies them to the task of raising children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden Informational Educational Services 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.292 PACMartin, Charles
Summary: "When Kelly MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren't working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue. It didn't take long for Pockets to realize there were two Joe Sues: the Joe Sue the public saw with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction MartinSummary: Documentary film about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Against a background of social stigma, addiction recovery advocates are organizing to end discrimination and move toward recovery-based solutions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANOSummary: "In the heart of downtown Seattle is the Union Gospel Mission - a homeless shelter catering to the addicted and the abused. For these men and women, hope is a novelty, self-esteem a luxury, and recovery a faraway ideal. But within the UGM is one man, an ex-Army Ranger, who believes in them. Believes in life. Believes in mountains. And he will attempt to use one of the most treacherous peaks in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NEWJamison, Leslie
Summary: Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86 JAMSummary: A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Recovery Dharma is a peer-led movement and community that is unified by the potential in each of us to recover and find freedom from the suffering of addiction. This book uses the Buddhist practices of medication, self-inquiry, wisdom, compassion, and community as tools for recovery and healing. We welcome anyone who is looking to find freedom from suffering, whether it's caused by substance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Recovery Dharma 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 RECCarr, Erin Lee
Summary: "A celebrated journalist, bestselling author, and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he collapsed in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker at age twenty-seven, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence--1,936 items in total. What started as an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARR, ERIN LEE CARMoyers, William Cope.
Summary: The son of broadcaster Bill Moyers shares his personal battle with alcoholism and drug addiction, describing his privileged childhood, multiple relapses, and rise to a key player at the Hazelden Foundation, an addiction treatment center.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOYERS, WILLIAM MOYFaulkner, Mary
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.77 FAUSummary: Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOUSummary: Profiles Junior Alcantara, a 34-year-old man recovering from heroin addiction and dealing with the effects of chronic hepatitis C. Also looks at two other recovering addicts with hepatitis C. Medical doctors discuss the realities of heroin addiction and ways of treating it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIXLawford, Christopher Kennedy
Summary: Draws upon the collective life lessons and skills from people in recovery to help those who have never battled addictions change their habits for the better, improve their frame of mind, and recognize and manage unhealthy impulses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 LAWBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURNowinski, Joseph
Summary: "This book picks up where "rehab" leaves off, and where the real work of recovery from substance abuse begins. It is a practical guide not only for the newly sober, but for their loved ones as well"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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Summary: When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALHardin, Lara Love
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: Ricky Lam had it all -- a thriving film career, the adoration of countless fans, incredible wealth, and a cocaine and alcohol problem that almost destroyed him. Luckily, he also had his older brother Philip -- who strong-armed him into an addiction clinic. After 15 years, Ricky wants to mend the rift that erupted between the brothers during those dark days. But when tragedy strikes, erasing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011
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Biden, Robert Hunter
Summary: "When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIDEN, ROBERT HUNTER BIDGalaxy, Jackson.
Summary: Traces the story of the author's relationship with gray-and-white feline companion Benny, relating their shared healing experiences while offering advice on how to promote optimal human-cat bonds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2012