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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing to physicians & lay persons alike
- By C. White on 03-08-19
By: Thomas Hager
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Saving Normal
- An Insider’s Revolt Against out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
- By: Allen Frances MD
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 103
In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: Stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Right on the money
- By Mentecuerpo on 03-29-19
By: Allen Frances MD
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Unbroken Brain
- A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
- By: Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 670
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 669
Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality", Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addiction is a learning disorder, and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- By Jennifer Sader on 08-28-16
By: Maia Szalavitz
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
- Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 582
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 413
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nations children. What is going on?
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2 out of 5 stars
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The author does not use a fair scientific approach
- By Michael on 08-15-10
By: Robert Whitaker
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Opium
- How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
- By: John H. Halpern, David Blistein
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Opium tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis, "mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society" (Laurence Bergreen). The story begins with the discovery of poppy artifacts in ancient Mesopotamia, and goes on to explore how Greek physicians and obscure chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial empires marketed it around the world, and eventually how international drug companies developed a range of powerful synthetic opioids that led to an addiction epidemic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Opium a poor excuse for a better history.
- By Jeffrey Olsen on 09-12-19
By: John H. Halpern, and others
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Mad in America
- Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential Reading to Understand Modern Psychiatry
- By James H. Walter on 10-15-16
By: Robert Whitaker
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Recover to Live
- Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn
- By: Christopher Kennedy Lawford
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
From New York Times bestselling author of Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity Christopher Kennedy Lawford comes a book that will save lives. For most of his early life, Christopher Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 25 years, he works to effect change and raise global awareness of addiction in nonprofit, private, and government circles, serving as the goodwill ambassador for drug dependence treatment and care for the United Nations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I didn't know I was a workaholic
- By wh on 06-17-13
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A Nation in Pain
- Healing Our Biggest Health Problem
- By: Judy Foreman
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Published in partnership with the International Association for the Study of Pain, A Nation in Pain offers a sweeping, deeply researched account of the chronic pain crisis, from neurobiology to public policy, and presents practical solutions that are within our grasp today. Drawing on both her personal experience with chronic pain and her background as an award-winning health journalist, she guides us through recent scientific discoveries, including genetic susceptibility to pain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Broad but superficial.
- By J. P. Murphy on 07-03-15
By: Judy Foreman
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The Problem of Alzheimer's
- How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
- By: Jason Karlawish
- Narrated by: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27
In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. Sixteen million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their 70s and 80s, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2025. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, The Problem of Alzheimer's traces Alzheimer’s from its beginnings to its recognition as a crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- By kara kuntz on 05-20-21
By: Jason Karlawish
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American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- By: Chris McGreal
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story5 out of 5 stars 122
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An important read
- By Macmom4 on 02-18-19
By: Chris McGreal
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The Sober Truth
- Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
- By: Lance Dodes MD, Zachary Dodes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
In The Sober Truth, acclaimed addiction specialist Dr. Lance Dodes exposes the deeply flawed science that the 12-step industry has used to support its programs. Dr. Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments, and biases. He also pores over the research to highlight the best peer-reviewed studies available and discovers that they reach a grim consensus on the program's overall success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A necessary read for those with genuine interest
- By Gregory W Minton on 05-06-19
By: Lance Dodes MD, and others
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Manufacturing Depression
- The Secret History of a Modern Disease
- By: Gary Greenberg
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Am I happy enough? This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured---not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Modern Gonzo Tour de Force
- By S. Frank on 11-12-11
By: Gary Greenberg
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Less Medicine, More Health
- 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
- By: H. Gilbert Welch
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care. You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated - and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The truth will set you free
- By Rene B Milner on 04-01-16
By: H. Gilbert Welch
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Danger to Self
- On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
- By: Paul R. Linde
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 125
The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes listeners behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration
- By Leah on 12-16-12
By: Paul R. Linde
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Trauma Recovery Through Psychedelic Experiences
- A Guide to Understanding and Safely Using MDMA, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, Cannabis, LSD, DMT and More! For Addiction, Depression, PTSD & OCD
- By: Roy Clark
- Narrated by: Dan Levy
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story5 out of 5 stars 49
Ready to move forward with your life and make meaningful changes, but you are regularly held back by mental health and/or trauma from your past? Unresolved trauma can cause a number of mental health conditions, but this doesn’t have to be the way life defines you forever. You deserve better!
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2 out of 5 stars
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Okay overview, but there are much better resources
- By Matt Haag on 07-19-23
By: Roy Clark
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- By: Beth Macy
- Narrated by: Beth Macy
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America’s courts. Like the treatment innovators she profiles, Beth Macy meets the opioid crisis where it is—not where we think it should be or wish it was.
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Uncomfortable Truth—the best kind!
- By Anna on 09-01-22
By: Beth Macy
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- By: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of his condition, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that our society’s current quagmire is only part of a centuries-old struggle to treat addictive behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Addiction/Recovery Book
- By treena meyer on 04-21-22
By: Carl Erik Fisher
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Pharma
- Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
- By: Gerald Posner
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet, exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but with some issues
- By Irina on 06-12-20
By: Gerald Posner
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- By: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrated by: Daniel Maté
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gabor should have been the narrator
- By Stacey on 08-16-19
By: Gabor Maté MD
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- Margaret M. Paur
- 08-18-23
good book
Started out interesting but got slow towards the end. kind of preaching at the end without solid action to take.
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- Julie C.
- 09-21-23
Very Informative
Dr. Ramin's books is quite informative, both in the history of opioid use as well as the challenges that users face when it comes to getting help. it's hard for someone who is not a user to fully understand how the addiction works (I question whether medical doctors really understand it as well). Dr. Ramin goes to great lengths to try to explain it in layman's terms so that the average reader/listener can enter this world and understand what both users and providers go through. My only criticism of the book is that it tends to ignore spiritual strongholds as well as personal responsibility when it comes to addiction. While both of those topics may difficult to comment on, it's something worth mentioning in future versions of the book.
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- Brandon B.
- 01-05-23
A Real Eye Opener with A Real Solution
A deep look into the lives of those who are addicted and how we can help them heal. I’m glad I listened to this book.
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