Interesting Recommend Your Favourite Drug Books

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

If you're on BL you probably love drugs. If you're on Words you probably love reading.
I love the combination :D

To get us started I really liked:

Autobiographical/Non-Fiction:
More, Now, Again, Elizabeth Wurtzel*
Tweak, Nic Sheff
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey**
Madness: A Bipolar Life, Marya Hornbacher***

Fiction:
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Porno
Skagboys
Glue
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr
Black Neon, Tony O'Neill


*this is her second autobiography. The first is called Prozac Nation and deals with her Major Depressive Disorder.
**the author has admitted that some scenes were fictionalized or exaggerated
***although this is primarily about Bipolar Disorder, substance abuse is also featured heavily, particularly alcohol. This is her second autobiography. The first is called Wasted and is about her struggles with anorexia and bulimia (and is the best book I have ever read on the subject) and also deals with quite a bit of substance abuse.

 

[Quere]

I really liked "a short treatise on the joys of morphinism" one of my friends saw it and was instantly reminded of me so got it for me as a present hahaha

 

[AbbeyLee]

If you're on BL you probably love drugs. If you're on Words you probably love reading.
I love the combination :D

To get us started I really liked:

Autobiographical/Non-Fiction:
More, Now, Again, Elizabeth Wurtzel*
Tweak, Nic Sheff
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey**
Madness: A Bipolar Life, Marya Hornbacher***

Fiction:
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Porno
Skagboys
Glue
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr
Black Neon, Tony O'Neill


*this is her second autobiography. The first is called Prozac Nation and deals with her Major Depressive Disorder.
**the author has admitted that some scenes were fictionalized or exaggerated
***although this is primarily about Bipolar Disorder, substance abuse is also featured heavily, particularly alcohol. This is her second autobiography. The first is called Wasted and is about her struggles with anorexia and bulimia (and is the best book I have ever read on the subject) and also deals with quite a bit of substance abuse.

I was going to say A Million Little Pieces — James Frey
Junky — William Burroughs
Go Ask Alice — Anonymous


Different perspective:

Food of the Gods — Terence McKenna

 

[JTemperance]

I really liked "a short treatise on the joys of morphinism" one of my friends saw it and was instantly reminded of me so got it for me as a present hahaha

This is one of my favorites, too. It's by Hans Fallada, a popular Weimar-era author ("Little Man, What Now?" being his biggest success internationally) and lifelong morphinist/alcoholic, it pretty much depicts a day in the life of a morphine addict in Berlin circa 1919. I always thought the description of trying to quit, and the self-pity that ensues, and the idea that caffeine could be a substitute poison, was so true to life. His "The Drinker" is also very good and quite true to the reality of alcoholism/embezzlement.

 

[JTemperance]

I also like "I Was A Drug Addict" by Leroy Street, a book published in the 50s but describing the (pseudonymous) author's addiction to heroin (plus cocaine/morphine/hashish) in NYC starting as a teenager around 1910 (when it was snuffed from crushed drugstore 1/6 grain tablets) until he quit once and for all with the love of a good woman in 1922. Includes his poor attempts at pharmacy burglary, WWI arms industry work, and the hideous "Belladona Cure" that was en vogue at the time.

"30 Years in Hell" by D.F. MacMartin is an awesome, if crazily rambling and eccentric, book written by a shady lawyer who was a hobo and morphine addict from about 1890 to 1920, published soon thereafter. "The Hundredth Man" by Cecil DeLenoir was published in 1932 and tells of his exploits as an Englishman getting addicted to drugs in NYC around 1910, and then roaming around America and Mexico trying cures and scoring drugs, and then back to London where he becomes the "1 in 100" who actually quits; some may find the pomposity grating, but I enjoyed it.

 

[Burnt Offerings]

Non-fiction:

"Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography" by Dominic Streatfeild
"Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich" by Norman Ohler (I haven't actually read this one but I've heard it's good)
"Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town" by Nick Reding
"McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld" by Misha Glenny
"Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market" by Eric Schlosser

"User guides":

"The Cocaine Handbook" by David Lee
"The Connoisseurs Guide to Marijuana" by William Drake