White out
Subtitle: the secret life of heroin : a memoir
By: by Michael W. Clune
Publisher: Hazelden
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781616492083
Subjects: Drug addicts; Literature teachers; Heroin abuse; Biography; Drug use
Description: "Then I see a white-topped vial. Wow. I stare at it. It's the first time I've ever seen it. I know I've seen it ten thousand times before. I know it only leads to bad things. I know I've had it and touched it and used it and shaken the last particles of white from the thin deep bottom one thousand times. But there it is. And it's the first time I've ever seen it.". How do you describe an addiction in which the drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a "white out," so that every time you use it is the first time, new, fascinating, and vivid? This work is an In-depth look into the life and mind of a heroin addict.  It is the author's memoir, a telling of his own story that takes us straignt inside such an addiction, what he calls the memory disease.
Table of contents: title: Memory disease; title: The castle; title: The future lasts forever; title: Hello, stripe; title: Everything is green; title: White out; title: Funboys; title: Sorrow; title: Pleasure; title: Bloodless; title: The people; title: Love; title: 26th and California; title: Forgetfulness; title: Outside; title: Endless.