Resources
Resources
Helpful resources regarding recovery and empowerment.
Literature
- Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
This New York Times Best Seller and memoir has been described as “unblinking honesty and poignant, with laugh-out-loud humor.” It’s about giving up the thing you cherish most–but getting yourself back in return. - Party Girl: A Novel by Anna David
David’s reality-fiction novel is based on a Hollywood party girl and cocaine addict. Her partying doesn’t pay off, and ultimately, she loses her job and perhaps even her mind. She decides to quit her drug use but struggles with a new, sober identity. - BACK ON TRACKmarks: From Hopeless to Dopeless by Matt Peterson
Peterson shares the true story of his journey from opiate painkillers to heroin addiction. As the son of a southern Baptist preacher, he seemed like an unlikely candidate for drug addiction, but Peterson’s story shows how this disease is not selective but can be overcome.