| Summary |
"Growing up in LA, Erin Khar hid behind a picture-perfect childhood filled with excellent grades, a popular group of friends and horseback riding. After first experimenting with her grandmother's expired painkillers, Khar started using heroin when she was thirteen. The drug allowed her to escape from pressures to be perfect and suppress all the heavy feelings she couldn't understand. This fiercely honest memoir explores how heroin shaped every aspect of her life for the next fifteen years and details the various lies she told herself, and others, about her drug use. With enormous heart and wisdom, she shows how the shame and stigma surrounding addiction, which fuels denial and deceit, is so often what keeps addicts from getting help." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Khar, Erin.
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Drug addicts -- United States -- Biography.
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Drug abuse -- Psychological aspects.
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Heroin abuse.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| Other title |
One last hit and other lies that nearly killed me : a memoir |
| ISBN |
9780778309734
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0778309738
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