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Cargando... Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addictpor Joshua Lyon
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This compelling, honest book investigates the growing epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse among today's Generation Rx. Through gripping profiles and heartbreaking confessions, this memoir dares to uncover the reality--the addiction, the withdrawal, and the recovery--of this newest generation of pill poppers. Joshua Lyon was no stranger to substance abuse. By the time he was seventeen, he had already found sanctuary in pot, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms--just to name a few. Ten years later, on assignment for Jane magazine, he found himself with a two-inch-thick bottle of Vicodin in his hands and only one decision to make: dispose of the bottle or give in to his curiosity. He chose the latter. In a matter of weeks he'd found his perfect drug. In the early half of this decade, purchasing painkillers without a doctor was as easy as going online and checking the spam filter in your inbox. The accessibility of these drugs--paired with a false perception of their safety--contributed to their epidemic-like spread throughout America's twenty-something youth, a group dubbed Generation Rx. Pill Head is Joshua Lyon's harrowing and bold account of this generation, and it's also a memoir about his own struggle to recover from his addiction to painkillers. The story of so many who have shared this experience--from discovery to addiction to rehabilitation--Pill Head follows the lives of several young people much like Joshua and dares to blow open the cultural phenomena of America's newest pill-popping generation. Marrying the journalist's eye with the addict's mind, Joshua takes readers through the shocking and often painful profiles of recreational users and suffering addicts as they fight to recover. Pill Head is not only a memoir of descent, but of endurance and of determination. Ultimately, it is a story of encouragement for anyone who is wrestling to overcome addiction, and anyone who is looking for the strength to heal. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Joshua was a young gay man, who worked for Jane magazine and decided to find out more about prescription drug abuse, he talked his editor into giving him an allowance to purchase some pills online to see how easy it would be to aquire these drugs. A few days later, he had a package waiting at his door. Now Joshua has an addictive personality so of course he fell into the addiction trap once he decided to try the Vicodin. He found himself a new love.
The book follows him on his journey through the addiction of pain killers and his trip to rehab and his research along the way. He interviewed quite a few people throughout this journey.
What I really enjoyed about this book was he honesty. He knew he had a problem, but was unwilling to do anything about it because he had the mentality that he wasn't hurting anyone. He saw relationships fall apart due to this addiction with others that he was either friends with or that he interviewed. He found that it wasn't always an easy adventure to get the pills but he knew that he would never stop trying to get them, one way or the other.
This is a must read for those that are going through any type of addiction or know of someone who is! ( )