Author : Luke Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925228924
Ice Age
Luke Williams
Ice Age A Journey Into Crystal Meth Addiction
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The Ice Age
Luke Williams
Author : Luke Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0369313291
The Ice Age by Luke Williams Pdf
A topical, insightful investigation into a drug that has taken a ferocious grip on societies around the world - told by a man intimately acquainted with it. Luke Williams was a freelance journalist and former drug addict researching addiction to crystallised methamphetamine (commonly known as crystal meth or ice) when the worst possible thing happened - he became addicted to it himself. Over the next three months, he was seduced by the drug and descended into psychosis. This confronting and illuminating story charts Luke's recovery from the drug, and his investigation into its usage and prevalence in Australia and the western world. In examining what led to his addiction, Luke also explores the social problems that surround ice, scrutinising whether its abuse is in fact an epidemic, with what we're experiencing now merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg, or yet another moral panic about the underclass. Luke traces the history of methamphetamine from its legal usage in the early 20th century to its contemporary relevance as one of the most foreboding and talked-about illicit drugs in the world. His search for answers sees him exploring meth labs, interviewing addicts and law-enforcement officials, and witnessing firsthand the effects of the drug on individuals, families, and the healthcare system. Combining memoir with reportage, The Ice Age is a vital, compelling first-person account, and an investigation into a drug that is fast becoming the subject of national discussion throughout the western world.
Ice Age: a Journey Into Crystal Meth Addiction
Luke Williams
Author : Luke Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198329960X
Ice Age: a Journey Into Crystal Meth Addiction by Luke Williams Pdf
A revelatory work of intimate investigative journalism mixed with memoir: William Burroughs for the Breaking Bad generation.Journalist Luke Williams had moved into a house with an old friend and meth dealer in outer-suburban Melbourne researching addiction to crystal methamphetamine when he accidentally became addicted to it himself. Over the next three months, he descended into psychosis. He believed his parents were trying to poison him, that a pedophile ring was being run from the local café and that he was bound to become a rap star. He became transfixed with violent fantasy and masturbation for days on end. He ended up living on the streets, then into Australia's what was most notorious boarding house - The Gatwick.Ice Age tells the story of Luke's fall as well as the fate of two other addicts - Smithy and Beck (both parents of young children) while simultaneously explaining how and why crystal meth has become a problem in Australia and all over the western world.Shocking. Honest. Engrossing.Shortlisted for the Nib Waverley Prize Longlisted Walkley Book Prize Longlisted for a CWA Dagger Award Highly Commended Australian Drug Foundation Media Awards'[An] unblinking account ... shot through with little slivers of acid humour.' (Andrew Anthony, The Observer)'Williams is a talented writer... Ice Age is a vivid, detailed and balanced account of methamphetamine use [and] a remarkable, original and compelling journey. To quote the king of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson: buy the ticket, take the ride.' (Andrew McMillen, The Weekend Australian).'The intensity of Williams's focus on Australia's meth problem is ultimately not a flaw but a virtue - it's what makes The Ice Age vividly memorable...In documenting his addiction, Williams thrusts the book into the realm of celebrated drug memoirs, from Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, to William Burroughs' novelized Junky and Hunter S Thompson's part-autobiographical, part-fictional Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.' (Chris Harvey, The Telegraph)'The Ice Age finds a steady rhythm between the vivid, surreal, violent and sorrowful memories of what Williams experiences while addicted, and thoroughly researched sections on history, law, policing and psychology that qualify the book as an excellent reference work ... At his worst, Williams could lie to himself and everyone else with a flair that may have been natural or drug-inspired, or a mixture of both. In this book, he reaches towards the truth. As both an ex-addict and a journalist, he appears to have found it.' (Sean Bell, Scotland Herald)
Never Enough
Barney Hoskyns
Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Constable
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1472125533
Never Enough by Barney Hoskyns Pdf
'This book could save your life' John Crace 'An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring' John Niven 'A rich, uplifting memoir: Hoskyns portrays how painful inadequacy, masked by drugs, can be replaced by the messiness of ordinary life' Oliver James A few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and asked his best friend to inject him with heroin. From that moment on, for the next three years, Hoskyns is hopelessly hooked. This is the searingly honest story of what brought him to this place - and how he got himself out of it. Barney Hoskyns is one of the leading music writers of our time: his books have ranged the musical landscape from Led Zeppelin to Tom Waits, from Laurel Canyon to Woodstock. His articles have appeared in NME, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone and Vogue, and in 2000 he founded Rock's Backpages. Hoskyns beautifully describes the relationship between music and addiction, between love and infatuation. Never Enough is Hoskyns's raw, uncompromising and utterly compelling account of the highs and lows of life under the needle. Interspersed with photos and diary entries, Hosykns examines why he so willingly gave himself up to the death-grip of heroin, and what it took to finally free himself from it.
Beautiful Boy
David Sheff
Author : David Sheff
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618683356
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff Pdf
Sheff's story tells of his teenage son's addiction to meth, in this real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the family's gradual emergence into hope.
Tweak
Nic Sheff
Author : Nic Sheff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471109737
Tweak by Nic Sheff Pdf
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ‘It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.’ Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Tweak is a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father’s parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy. Praise for Nic Sheff:- ‘Difficult to read and impossible to put down.’Chicago Tribune 'Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' Armistead Maupin
Eating Smoke - One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Chris Thrall
Author : Chris Thrall
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781784181581
Eating Smoke - One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland by Chris Thrall Pdf
Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find fortune in Hong Kong, but following a bizarre series of jobs he ended up homeless and hooked on Crystal Meth. He began working for the 14K, the city's most notorious crime syndicate, as a nightclub doorman in the Wan Chai red-light district. Heavily in psychosis, he uncovered a huge global conspiracy, made all the more confusing by the 'Foreign Triad' - a secretive expat clique in cahoots with the Chinese mafia. Desperate, addicted and alone in the neon glare of Hong Kong's seedy backstreets, Chris was forced to survive in the world's most unforgiving city, addicted to the world's most dangerous drug. Engaging, honest and full of Chris's irrepressible humour, this remarkable memoir combines gripping storytelling with brooding menace as the Triads begin to cast their shadow over him. The result is a truly psychotic urban nightmare.
When Hell Freezes Over
Jackson Oppy
Author : Jackson Oppy
Publisher : Kerr Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781925282368
When Hell Freezes Over by Jackson Oppy Pdf
The spread of crystal methamphetamine use sees more and more families face a horrifying reality - their child or spouse or parent is an addict. Their world is a hell where Ice rules and it is far from OK. Ice took families, society and the drug-addiction treatment sector by surprise. Young users often bypassed alcohol, 'soft' and party drug use, so the first mind-altering substance they try is ice, the world's strongest stimulant. A new kind of mature addict emerged, a drug-using individual who seemed to manage to navigate life normally before, and then suddenly abandoned everything. People become withered, psychotic, mumbling ghosts. The speed of their journey broke all previous records. Their unmanageability became legendary. The core of this book is not the drug, but the people: the addict who desperately needs help, and the people around the addict who need clear and practical information about the solution. With the right treatment, addicts do recover.
Teenage Degenerate
S. C. Sterling
Author : S. C. Sterling
Publisher : No Bueno Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780997017533
Teenage Degenerate by S. C. Sterling Pdf
In 1996, Scott was nineteen and lost in adulthood with an endless job and no future ambitions. Teenage Degenerate is his story about drug addiction, music and growing up. Over the course of ten months, he quickly descends into the dark and dangerous world of crystal methamphetamine. Scott experiments with crystal meth in a dark, deserted parking lot in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado and soon after his crew of misfits will do almost anything for their next high. One by one, family and friends disappear, and he is left alone with a decision to continue fighting or give up. This is his struggle to reclaim a normal life and the search for something real. Teenage Degenerate is a book about meth that is a brutally truthful, humorous and heartbreaking journey that explores the depths of addiction.
Down and Out in Paradise
Luke Williams
Author : Luke Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1760685844
Down and Out in Paradise by Luke Williams Pdf
When Westerners go East, or, on not finding peace in Asia. Journalist Luke Williams travels to Asia to escape hard drugs, high rents and cold nights - he finds adventure, temples, and for the first time - people actually weirder than him: Westerners in Asia.
Who Bombed the Hilton?
Rachel Landers
Author : Rachel Landers
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781742241470
Who Bombed the Hilton? by Rachel Landers Pdf
I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper — lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world. What really went on? Were the police corrupt? Did the conspiracy theorists believe what they wanted to believe? Who did bomb the Hilton? On 13 February 1978 a bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in George Street, Sydney. Two garbage collectors and a police officer were killed. Often called the first act of terrorist murder on Australian soil, the crime is still unsolved. Award-winning filmmaker and historian Rachel Landers wrestles with the evidence to unravel this complex cold case in forensic detail, exposing corruption, conspiracy theories and political intrigue – and a prime suspect. "Rachel Landers’ Who Bombed the Hilton? is a terrifying tale written with sparkling good humour and panache. Landers takes a ‘tatty, fractured saga’ of the horrific terrorist attack in the heart of Sydney, and, backed by remarkable research, she brings it to life. She makes of it a testament to the victims and the investigators, as well as a warning to us in our own age of terror. As we struggle with terrorism, and with the danger of damaging our democracy by our measures to counter it, we do well to remember this story of ‘the one who got away.’ " – Anna Funder
Blitzed
Norman Ohler
Author : Norman Ohler
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1328915344
Blitzed by Norman Ohler Pdf
Methamphetamine, the Volksdroge (1933-1938) -- Sieg High! (1939-1941) -- High Hitler : Patient A and his personal physician (1941-1944) -- The wonder drug (1944-1945).
Lust, Men, and Meth
David Michael Fawcett
Author : David Michael Fawcett
Publisher : S FL Center for Counseling and Therapy, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 0996257802
Lust, Men, and Meth by David Michael Fawcett Pdf
Fawcett provides a practical resource for recovery from methamphetamine and the restoration of healthy sex and intimacy. He outlines a path toward healing, describing the phases of physical, emotional, and sexual recovery and provides a broad range of supportive tools from managing triggers to mindfulness.
Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction
Steven J. Lee
Author : Steven J. Lee
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780786735532
Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction by Steven J. Lee Pdf
In Overcoming Crystal Methamphetamine Addiction, one of the few books to address the topic for a general audience, Dr. Steven Lee, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in crystal meth addiction, offers a complete guide to the drug, its effects, and how to overcome it. Based on extensive scientific and social research and drawing from his professional experience, he covers everything from the definition and history of crystal meth to the physical and psychological effects; from dealing with the addictive personality to helping a friend or family member cope with it. He focuses on understanding rather than outright condemnation of the drug, and empathetically covers all of the crucial questions: What is crystal meth? How is it made? How does it affect the body? How do you know if you're addicted to it? How do you stop using it? What if you don't want to stop? If you are going to use CM anyway, how can you minimize the damage? What if you quit but slipped and used again?
Methamphetamine
Frank Spalding
Author : Frank Spalding
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404209123
Methamphetamine by Frank Spalding Pdf
Discussion of methamphetamine abuse and its social costs.