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1. paulathewriter.com › 2018/03/11 › substance-abuseWriting About Substance Abuse in Your Fiction – Paula Writes

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   Mar 11, 2018 · Drug addiction and alcoholism are challenging, controversial, and complex to write about, but I personally choose to address both, in my fiction. I do have personal, although not recent, experience, in the areas of problem drinking and volatile substance abuse - but not of using illegal drugs.

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2. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsLiterary and biographical perspectives on substance use

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   His novel Requiem for a Dream (Reference Selby Selby Jr, 1979) links four characters in a story of drug addiction that leads to imprisonment, death, prostitution and incarceration in a mental hospital. The main agent of destruction for the three younger characters is heroin, but this is ultimately seen as no different from the effects of ...

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3. tonyhoffmanspeaking.com › how-tony-overcameHow Tony Hoffman Overcame Addiction and Became a Top Mental ...

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   Nov 9, 2023 · During his senior year, Hoffman began using drugs and alcohol to cope. What started as weekend partying progressed to daily substance abuse. Hoffman quickly became addicted to prescription opioids like OxyContin. His mental health deteriorated as his addiction consumed his life.

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5. mindremakeproject.org › 2020/09/15 › recommended-memoirs18 Powerful Memoirs About Mental Illness & Addiction

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   Sep 15, 2020 · A decidedly female story of addiction, The Big Fix describes the unique challenges faced by women caught in the grip of substance abuse, such as the toxic connection between drug addition and prostitution.

6. janefriedman.com › the-grim-reader-excerptHow to Write Realistically About Drug Use in Your Novel

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   Jan 9, 2024 · Today’s post is excerpted from The Grim Reader: A Pharmacist’s Guide to Putting Your Characters in Peril (Red Lightning Books, 2024, used with permission) by Miffie Seideman. Writers have asked how they can realistically describe a drug they’ve never personally used.

7. www.theringer.com › 2018/3/30 › 17178386What Makes a Successful Addiction Memoir? - The Ringer

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   Mar 30, 2018 · Her book questions what a successful addiction memoir looks like, and whether it is possible to move the story beyond an individual tale of rising from the depths of an addiction into...

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   Do you write about drug addiction and alcoholism?

   • Drug addiction and alcoholism are challenging, controversial, and complex to write about, but I personally choose to address both, in my fiction. I do have personal, although not recent, experience, in the areas of problem drinking and volatile substance abuse – but not of using illegal drugs.

   Writing About Substance Abuse in Your Fiction – Paula Writes

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   What is a good book about addiction?

   • In the tradition of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahl’s Permanent Midnight, this is an insightful, darkly funny, and shamelessly honest memoir of one woman’s battle with all forms of addiction, hitting rock bottom, and forging a path to a life worth living.” 13. Parched: A Memoir (2006) by Heather King

   18 Powerful Memoirs About Mental Illness & Addiction

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   What is the purpose of the narrative in addiction writing?

   • It explores the idea of the narrative as it is applied to addictive disorders and gives a range of examples of writing about different substances that might enhance the reader's knowledge of current drug culture.

   Literary and biographical perspectives on substance use

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   Can literature be a useful tool for understanding drug and alcohol use?

   • The authors hope to have demonstrated that literature can be a valuable tool in understanding the experience of drug and alcohol use and addiction. The effects of psychoactive drugs have been closely linked to all forms of literature for as long as humans have been writing, but a review of the subject is currently very topical.

   Literary and biographical perspectives on substance use

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   Should you write dark fiction if you're an addict?

   • The addict is at an increased risk of suicide. Access your own inner darkness. Even if you haven’t had the precise experience that you’re describing, you can probably relate, on some level, to aspects. If you were drawn to write dark fiction, in the first place, there’s a reason. Survivors understand survivors.

   Writing About Substance Abuse in Your Fiction – Paula Writes

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   Why did Agatha Christie use benzodiazepines in Murder on the Orient Express?

   • So, it was no accident that Agatha Christie chose to weave barbital into the plot of Murder on the Orient Express. Once the medical profession realized the growing trend of barbiturate addiction, benzodiazepines (“benzos”) became the new alternative.

   How to Write Realistically About Drug Use in Your Novel

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9. www.hoffmaninstitute.org › trauma-resilienceTrauma, Resilience, and Addiction | Hoffman Institute

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   In your first book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, you explore addiction. You’ve argued that instead of trying to stamp out the use of substances like alcohol or drugs we should really be asking, “What is the pain?”