Chasing the high : a firsthand account of one young person's experience with substance abuse /
Foreword. Preface. 1. 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. 2. The Early Days of Using. My not-so-shady past. A forbidden sip. One puff leads to another. My uncertain future. Heroin....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
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2008.
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| Series: | Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' adolescent mental health initiative.
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Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
| Summary: | Foreword. Preface. 1. 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. 2. 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?. 3. 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. |
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| Item Description: | "The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 170 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198042952 0198042957 1281374725 9781281374721 0195314719 9780195314717 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |