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0224089072 
Hardback 
Year: 2010
Language: English
Interest category: Biography
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is the story of one of the most gifted, charismatic & successful young literary agents in New York, Bill Clegg, & his catastrophic fall into full-blown crack addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends & very nearly his life. General adult
x, 221 p. ; 23 cm (hbk)
1842998188 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Young adult novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Barrington Stoke
Resource type: Physical
Note: For Jake, playing his guitar is his only respite from life with his alcholic mother. When he runs away from home to escape his mother's violence, he ends up in a squat and resorts to busking to earn some cash. But will music help him get home? Teenagers
Title series: Barrington Stoke teen
55 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
1780882955 
Paperback
Year: c2012
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Matador
Resource type: Physical
Note: Includes QR code An honest and intimate account of the difficulties of overcoming heroin addiction told by both mother and daughter, with a concluding section offering two sets of personal guidelines: one for addicts, the other for parents or partners of addicts. General adult
ix, 329 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
1472137124 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Robinson
Resource type: Physical
Note: When the Husband family realised that their son Paul was addicted to heroin, they did everything they could to help him but it seemed that every step in the right direction would be followed by another relapse as Paul lied to them, stole from them, and come close to losing his life. This illustrated title from award-winning cartoonist Tony Husband tells the tale of those dark days as they worked as a family to get Paul into the right sort of supportive environment where he could truly recover from his dangerous addiction, and move from that dark place to a brighter future. General adult
72 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 18 cm (pbk)
0349418748 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Piatkus
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous edition: 2007 Elizabeth Burton-Phillips always tried to do the best for her children, and she never imagined that her identical twin sons would become involved in drugs. In this book she provides a brutally frank account of how heroin addiction ruined their lives. General adult
xix, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm (pbk)
0224094246 
Hardback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Resource type: Physical
Note: The goal is 90: just 90 clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With 73 days in rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies. General adult
193 p. ; 23 cm (hbk)
0099557495 
Paperback
Year: 2011
Language: English
Interest category: Biography
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Arrow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Alice is 15, white and middle-class. She diets. She dates. She gets decent grades. Then she gets into drugs. She figures life is more bearable with drugs than without. This is Alice's true story. General adult
161 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)