Full name: Cracked: Life on the Edge in a Rehab Clinic

Author: Drew Pinsky Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Psychology, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060096557 0060096551

Dr. Drew Pinsky is best known as the cohost of the long-running radio advice program Loveline. But his workday is spent at a major Southern California clinic, treating the severest cases of drug dependency and psychiatric breakdown. In this riveting book, Pinsky reveals the intimate and often shocking stories of his patients as they struggle with emotional trauma, sexual abuse, and a host of chemical nemeses: alcohol, marijuana, Ecstasy, heroin, speed, cocaine, and prescription drugs. At the center of these stories is Pinsky himself, who immerses himself passionately, almost obsessively, in his work. From the sexually compulsive model to the BMW-driving soccer mom, Cracked exposes, in fast-moving, powerful vignettes, the true scope and severity of addiction, a nationwide epidemic. Similar books: The Addict by Michael Stein Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet Darkness Visible by William Styron Wasted by Marya Hornbacher Carly's Voice by Arthur Fleischmann Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel Drinking by Caroline Knapp Tweak by Nic Sheff January First by Michael Schofield Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach Madness by Marya Hornbacher My Lobotomy by Howard Dully Sickened by Julie Gregory The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham Switching Time by Richard Baer