12 Step & Recovery Friends discussion

This is Marc's second book. Memoirs of an Addicted Brain combined addict2addict accounts of drug addiction and a Neuroscientist account of what's going on in our brain through the cycles of addiction. I loved it.

This new one asks some questions.
Is the disease model the best category for addiction? Even the idea of "recovery" from addiction suggests "returning to" a state, when for many of us, we are creating a new state in post-addiction. I don't want to return to the mental state I was in before I was addicted to booze and drugs.

Even if you take issue with Marc's anti-establishment arguments about the language and attitudes taken by today's medical community, you might still enjoy the accounts of a pill-head, meth-addict, alcoholic and heroin abuser. Each has a happy enough ending and their own unique path through the other side of being enslaved to their substance-of-choice.