Once upon a time, there was a very kind, loving, generous, and caring man who did good works. Unfortunately, the ungodly hypocrites in authority did not like his radical ways of counseling and made it very difficult for him to hold on to his livelihood. All he wanted in this unprecedented, unheard of, crazy cruel spiritual journey is for someone to give him a break! The tumultuous pharmacy career finally catches up with Louie, and no one is willing to give him another chance or a break. Louie ends up a washed-up pharmacist, and he's ready to give up his fight, until something crazy happens in the final round.
In a vivid, candid memoir of his own addiction, a renowned neuroscientist articulates exactly how drugs speak to the brain, illuminating both the science of craving and the human condition
"Memoirs of a Drug Lord" is a memoir-novel that, at first, sets off with a mood of realism as a memoir ought to, but with less of that stale non-fictional format typical in most memoirs; the blurred lines between fact and fiction grow invigoratingly deceiving with each turn of the page, as the writer's zestful edge-sitting narration of tales, of depictions told from the Drug Lord's perspective himself; seizes the reader till the point of a contagiously fining want for more. For purposes of preserving his identity, and for the obvious fact that concealing the author's name to read as the pen name "Josh Royal" plays right into the entertainingly alluring snares that the writer entraps the reader with, and with great endearment; as the reader fails to resists their growing affections for the main character. This is not a story about drugs, but the story of a middle-class boy from an almost cult-like religious milieu, who overcame the many odious obstacles that life threw at him; and the use and sell of drugs became the very assets that propelled him to the status of that of a Lord in view of most of his fellow country folk. This is a book about love and hate, and falling into and out of both emotive states. This is a story about brotherhood, one that can stand the test of time. And things that were just meant to have happened, happened. "There came a point in my life when I totally stopped believing in the ideology that the more and harder I worked, the greater the reward I would earn, money wise or in terms of social satisfaction; without even speaking of the long sort after feeling of happiness. I made my first million dollars by the age of twenty four, and three years after that, I was worth more than ten million dollars. I never looked back after that, the money grew exponentially with time, and I wish I could sell the entire experience as an easy and smooth sailing, big money earning scheme, these illegal dealings I had begun to exploit; but despite it being a scheme, I learnt that nothing in life came easy, or without a fair exchange in the form of any resources akin to the respective persons. Although..."
An authority on opium paraphernalia traces the history of opium use while recounting his descent into addiction, describing how his experiments while researching an article led to a dangerous habit that prompted numerous rehabilitation efforts.
Traces the author's twenty-year stint as crystal meth addict, from his lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, an alcoholic artist, to his wild acid trips and experiences navigating through the dark underworld of cookers, users, club kids, dealers, and other unforgettable characters. Original.
A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming's experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion. A philosopher by training, Fleming combines meticulous observation of his life with a keen sense of the absurdity of his actions. He describes the intricacies of drug use and acquisition, their impact on the intellect and emotions, and the chaos that emerges as his tightly managed existence unravels into arrests, hospitalisations and family breakdown. His account is accompanied by searching reflections on his childhood, during which he developed acute obsessive compulsive disorder and became fixated on martial arts, music-making and bodybuilding. In confronting the pathos and comedy of drug use, On Drugs also opens out into meditations on the self and its deceptions, on popular culture, religion and mental illness, and the tortuous path to recovery.
"Based on detailed notes taken during a doctor's incarceration in the concentration camps and ghettos of Romanian-ruled Transnistria during the Holocaust, this memoir tells a gripping story of calculated murder, resistance, and survival. In the aftermath of the Romanian Holocaust, Transnistria, a little-known region north of Odessa, between the Dniester and Bug rivers, came to be known as "the forgotten cemetery." Between 1941 and 1944, an estimated 300,000 Jews were killed or died there from starvation and disease. This memoir by Dr. Arthur Kessler, based on daily notes he kept as a physician during his two-year imprisonment in Transnistria's Vapniarka concentration camp and Olgopol ghetto, provides a unique perspective of a Jewish medical doctor who witnessed murderous death as well as brave acts of resistance and survival. Introduced and annotated by historian Leo Spitzer and translated from German by the late Margaret Robinson, Dr. Kessler's memoir provides an engrossing account of his infamous discovery that Vapniarka's Romanian authorities routinely, and it seems knowingly, fed camp inmates a daily soup containing toxic chickling peas (Lathyrus sativus) that induced paralysis, kidney failure, and oftentimes death. It reveals the daring by which he, together with fellow inmate medical associates, saved hundreds of lives by organizing a hunger strike that resulted in the camp's dissolution and the prisoners' relocation to ghettos throughout Transnistria. Kessler's narrative continues with an account of privileges attainable by deportees with useful skills and provides illuminating details about informal systems and practices that enabled many to survive and to provide care to fellow victims of genocidal persecution. The memoir is illustrated with moving drawings produced by prisoners in the Vapniarka concentration camp and presented to Dr. Kessler in recognition of his brave work of healing"--
What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through the grimiest back-rooms of Manhattan's underbelly, through scenes of blank-eyed sex and squalor, into the febrile paranoia of a mind gone out of control.
