Recovery Memoirs

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    • Freedom from Our Addictions
    • By: Russell Brand
    • Narrated by: Russell Brand
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,687 ratings
    • A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery....

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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 698 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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    • 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 32 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 of Abuse, Addiction, Sex Work, and Recovery
    • By: Amber van de Bunt
    • Narrated by: Amber van de Bunt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn't like the other girls in town. From childhood struggles with depression and eating disorders, her years as a topless dancer in Florida, and an eventual abortion and suicide attempt, to her rebirth in Los Angeles as a porn star....

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    • A Love Story
    • By: Caroline Knapp
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,010 ratings
    • Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor"....

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    • My Tale of Madness and Recovery
    • By: Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle - contributor
    • Narrated by: Emma Powell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 ratings
    • In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down....

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    • A Zany Memoir of Alcoholism & Recovery
    • By: Charlie Gray
    • Narrated by: Charlie Gray
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This memoir chronicles the escapades of aspiring actor and writer Charlie Gray, his downward spiral into a vodka bottle, and his profound realizations about life, family, friends, booze, trauma, and relapse as a now-recovering alcoholic.

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    • What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions
    • By: Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, David Peisner - contributor
    • Narrated by: Stephen "Steve-O" Glover
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • Stephen "Steve-O" Glover—social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass—delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be dead....

    $22.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • A memoir about addiction
    • By: David Newson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • Growing up in Charlotte, NC, my childhood was everything one would think of as normal. I went to a great school, had plenty of friends, took ...

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    • By: Bill Lee
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • (This is a re-release of "Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler" that was published by Hazelden Publishing on March 3, 2005. Reviews for ...

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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 1,362 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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    • A Father, His Son, and the Ultimate American Tragedy
    • By: Thomas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations. But in February 1972, an unthinkable tragedy occurred in the basement of their Nassau County residence....

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    • One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
    • By: Erin Khar
    • Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • This deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her 15-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people in America currently battling with this addiction....

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    • A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption, and Hope in Unlikely Places
    • By: Carder Stout
    • Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • From a youth of affluence to the hit the Shoreline Crips put on his life, Carder delves deep into life on the streets. Lost in Ghost Town is a riveting, raw, and heartfelt look at the power of addiction, the beauty of redemption, and finding truth somewhere in between....

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    • By: James Frey
    • Narrated by: Andy Paris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately....

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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 159 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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    • 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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    • How a Former College QB Sentenced to Life in Prison Transformed His World
    • By: Damon West
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • Sentenced to 65 years in a Texas prison, Damon West once had it all. He came from a great family, in a home full of God, love, support, and opportunities to reach any goal. A natural born leader, an athlete with good looks and charm, he appeared to be the all-American kid....

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    • A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
    • By: Erica C. Barnett
    • Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • A startlingly frank memoir, Quitter documents one woman's struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights into addiction and treatment....

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    • A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Peter Canning
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • A first responder to hundreds of overdoses throughout the rise of America's epidemic, Peter Canning tells stories of opioid overdose from a street-level vantage point....

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