A groundbreaking memoir of a double life fueled by heroin Addiction and mental illness While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit.
Bush and Barack Obama. --Keith Humphreys, former White House drug policy adviser to presidents George W. --Amy Dresner, author of My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean A fluidly written, disarmingly blunt account of heroin Addiction and recovery.
Poses is about to turn your whole worldview on Addiction upside down in the best way. . . . --Johann Hari, New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream Entertaining, honest, darkly comedic, and smart as hell, David Poses\'s The Weight of Air is a painfully accurate portrayal of heroin Addiction and the sorts of treatments forced upon us.
The Weight of Air is a moving, tender, thoughtful account of Addiction and also a compelling critique of a lot that\'s wrong with the dominant model of Addiction treatment.
With grit and brutal honesty, David shines a bright light on the flaws in our traditional Addiction and Recovery models, exposing the opioid crisis for what it really is: a convergence of two deadly epidemics.
Over the next thirteen years, he went from one relapse to the next, drowning in guilt, shame, and secrets--until he finally found the treatment that saved his life.
He saw his Addiction as secondary, as a symptom of depression, but the experts insisted that Addiction was the primary problem.
By nineteen, he\'d been through medical detox, inpatient rehab, twelve-step programs, and a halfway house, unable to reconcile his experience with conventional wisdom.
The Weight of Air chronicles David\'s struggle to overcome the depression that led him to opioids as a teenager.
More than a decade in a double life fueled by heroin Addiction and mental illness.
Thirty-two years old.
Twenty-six inches.
He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth.
A groundbreaking memoir of a double life fueled by heroin Addiction and mental illness While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit
