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Drug Addiction & shame

Below are the best resources we could find on Drug Addiction and shame.

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Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption

The eldest son of journalist Bill Moyers, William Cope Moyers relates with unforgettable clarity the story of how a young man with every advantage found himself spiraling into a love affair with crack cocaine that led him to the brink of death—and how a deep spirituality allowed him to conquer his...

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William Cope Moyers, Katherine Ketcham
2007
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We Are Broken Together

“Even where I live in St. Paul, known nationally for being the ‘crossroads of recovery,’” William said, “the stigma prevents people from thinking about alcoholics and other drug addicts as ‘good people with a bad illness.’”

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Kathy Ketcham
2021
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His Family Found the Way to Cope

"I knew how progressive the disease was. I knew each time I used, I fell faster and faster. I knew when I went out that day I was a dead man. I didn't go out to do drugs. I went out to die."

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Patricia Guthrie
1998
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Beating Opioid Addiction | Joy’s Story

For over 30 years, Joy battled addiction. Now with four years in recovery, she tells her story.

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2018
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Confessions of a Kleptomaniac

I became a drug addict only years after I'd discovered my first true love: Compulsive thieving.

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Dylan Lavene
2012
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Shaming the Sick: Substance Use and Stigma | Dr Carolyn Greer | TEDxFortWayne

When we speak about mental illness and substance use disorders in a similar fashion as we do about other chronic medical illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, barriers to diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management will be broken.

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2019
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Claudia Black on Anger (1996)

Dr Claudia Black describes aspects of anger and the connection to addiction.

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Claudia Black
2015
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