Chasing the high : a firsthand account of one young person's experience with substance abuse / Kyle Keegan ; with Howard B. Moss.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780195314717
- ISBN: 0195314719
- ISBN: 9780195314724
- ISBN: 0195314727
- Physical Description: xvi, 170 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The history behind Chasing the high -- What to expect from this book -- Crash and rescue -- Above the city, steeped in misery -- Back from the edge -- Substance abuse and addiction defined -- Addiction is a disease -- A hellish journey -- The early days of using -- My not-so-shady past -- A forbidden sip -- One puff leads to another -- My uncertain future -- Heroin -- A rite of passage versus the slippery slope to addiction -- The ride down that slope -- Who becomes addicted, who does not, and why? -- The noose tightens -- A moment of truth, and then denial -- First shot at detoxification -- Learning the life of an addict -- Desperate moves -- Returning to an unfamiliar home -- "This is your brain on drugs" -- Different types of drugs of abuse -- Trying to get help -- Overconfidence and denial : do not mix -- A minor arrest -- A major arrest -- Up, down, up, down : the saga of addiction continues -- A crucial turning point -- Substance abuse treatment : what to expect -- Treatment of co-occurring mental disorders -- Recovery -- What does recovery mean for you? -- If a relapse occurs-- -- Looking back, looking ahead -- "Real" recovery is whatever works for us. |
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| Subject: | Keegan, Kyle, 1975- Substance abuse > United States > Biography. Recovering addicts > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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| Swansboro Branch Library | YA 616.86 KEE (Text) | 36015000946547 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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