Addiction Memoirs

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    • A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
    • By: Kathleen Buhle
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Buhle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 559 ratings
    • For decades, Kathleen Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife, beginning when, as a naïve young woman from a working-class family on the South Side of Chicago, she met the dashing son of a senator in Oregon. Within months, Kathleen found herself pregnant and engaged....

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    • Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
    • By: Mariel Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Mariel Hemingway
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,118 ratings
    • A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America's most famous families....

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    • The Ashley Madison Hack
    • By: Sophie Elmhirst, Maria Luisa Tucker
    • Narrated by: Sophie Nélisse
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,031 ratings
    • Millions of people–looking to cheat on their partners–signed up for Ashley Madison in the early 2000s, seeking a private space to share their public desires. The promise of discretion was shattered in the summer of 2015....

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    • A Memoir of Addiction
    • By: Kate Holden
    • Narrated by: Christy Lynn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 421 ratings
    • The frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman's descent into heroin addiction and prostitution and the long, arduous struggle to redeem her life that made her stronger....

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    • By: Leslie Jamison
    • Narrated by: Author
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 500 ratings
    • With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head....

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    • The Making of an Honest Woman
    • By: Jill Kelly
    • Narrated by: Jill Kelly
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • Jill Kelly's personal stories describe the journey as two decades of drinking and despair gave way to a richly rewarding sober life....

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    • A Food Addict's Guide to Managing Emotional Eating
    • By: Kristin Jones
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Have you ever found yourself covered in cookie crumbs with an empty container next to you after an argument with your spouse, but you have no ...

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    • A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
    • By: Amy Dresner
    • Narrated by: Amy Dresner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,142 ratings
    • A darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's 20-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side....

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    • Tracing My Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault
    • By: Jennifer Storm
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Storm
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Sexual assault, addiction, and other traumatic experiences can leave both physical and emotional scars. For Jennifer Storm, these scars serve as a reminder - both of the darkness and suffering she once experienced, and of how far she has come....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: James Brown
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Now 60 - with years of sobriety under his belt - and the father of three sons, James Brown writes about finding a new path in life, making peace with the family whose ghosts have haunted him, and helping the next generation of addicts overcome their disease....

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    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit, they told police they found Billie's husband unconscious on the floor....

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    • a memoir
    • By: Brett Douglas
    • Narrated by: Ryan Turner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 688 ratings
    • My name is Brett. I'm a college-educated man who was once a husband of 26 years with two children, three businesses, and a large home with an actual white picket fence. I'm also a drug addict. And I have a tale to tell....

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    • My Lush Sobriety
    • By: Sacha Z. Scoblic
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • When Sacha Z. Scoblic was drinking, she was a rock star; the days were rough and the nights filled with laughs and blackouts. Then she gave it up. Here are her adventures in a maddeningly sober world... and how she discovered that nothing is as fantastic as life without a drink in hand....

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    • An Addiction Memoir
    • By: Brandon Novak
    • Narrated by: Brandon Novak
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other death-defying stunts on the road to recovery....

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    • By: Jane Addams
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Jane Addams's memoir of her experience running a settlement house on Chicago's West Side includes portraits of people in need....

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    • A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery
    • By: Dana Bowman
    • Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety to her now (in)frequent moments of peace....

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    • The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
    • By: Tiffany Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,159 ratings
    • A raw and twisty, pause resisting memoir that sounds like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany’s life as an active opioid addict. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds....

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    • And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    • By: Caitlin Doughty
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,102 ratings
    • Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty - a 20-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre - took a job at a crematory....

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    • How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
    • By: John Temple
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,361 ratings
    • American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis....

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