I Am a Heroin Addict

De: Ritchie Farrell

Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen

Heroin is a Beast, and that Beast has infiltrated every town and city in America. The Beast has come for your sons and daughters. The Beast is hunting for your fathers and mothers. And that Beast has only one mission, to bury as many Americans as possible.

I Am a Heroin Addict is the story of how Ritchie Farrell survived a ten-bag-a-day heroin habit to become a best-selling author, WGA screenwriter, and recipient of the prestigious du-Pont-Columbia Award for excellence in journalism.

Contains mature themes.

©2017 Ritchie Farrell (P)2018 Tantor

Great Storytelling

Narration was outstanding! The story was nail biting, sad, and triumphant. Farrell’s father abusive behavior towards his children and wife was so painful to read. I had to pace myself as I listened to his recounting of the abuse. His story is a cautionary tale of how child abuse, PTSD, and domestic violence can lead one down so many dangerous paths. Farrell’s honesty made it easy to feel compassion for him. Heroin is seductive and even when you’re a good person with everything going for you. It was encouraging to hear him share his ongoing journey to stay clean.

Loved it!!!! Related way too much

took place in the same town the author and i were born and raised in the same city and know family members of each otherz It was crazy i found out he was in the movie also takes place in "Mill city" The Fighter and screenwrote High on Crack St. The lowell,MA documentery . Im a huge fan

Great read

This is one of the best books I’ve read/heard. Highly recommend. Although I can not related to what this guy has been through. I gave me a pretty good insight to the life of an attic and their struggle to get out of that life

Great read

Was a great read.. didn't realize was just about being in detox for a week. Which was fine because I myself never used detox or rehab..so reading about the experience gave me great perspective on what it is like.

Finished it in less than 24 hours

Started it on the way home listened to the rest of the book at work the next day.
Finished the book in less than 24 hours.
Great story.

Phenomenal Story

great analogies, phenomenal writing and touching story. I am thrilled to hear his next book.

Devastation

Not the story but the epidemic that I know too well from the outside. Watching my ex husband being our entire lives to ruin, to get clean and watch him try and drown me once more even unmarried is devastating. The sea of lies, loss, the never-ending cycle, the stigma that is unfairly given to the family left in ruins behind is unfair. I make no excuses for his choices and I don't hate him, but I will drown in his obvious self- destructive choices. I call her Lady H, the demon spirit he cherishes above all else, he breathes her in and out, she is constantly whispering to him, eventually consuming him like the beautiful mermaid, sirens out to see. He has laughed with, cried with and fought those blinding and deafening demons passed down by his father, n undesirable inheritance when he overdosed, and I unfortunately see the some inheritance being chained to our boys and I do pray, and pry harder. The intro is so defining, the attitudes and he stories very real. The struggle is consuming and you are brave to willing overcome such struggles and move forward to help those you can in a way that you are capable of. If not for the addicts, as an ex-wife, survivor~ barely, I appreciate the canidency as hard as it was to listen to.

Well done!

This is by far the best book of an addiction story yet. The story kept me drawn in. The reader was excellent. It was as if the reader was living this story and taking me along day by day. Best book I’ve read in a long time.

Raw Emotions

Great narration. The author helps the reader understand the true grip that heroin has over an addicts mind. I’m a father of an addict, so this truly hit home for me.
Well done!!

Couldn’t put it down.

Well written.
Kudos to the author and anyone else that successfully leaves substance misuse behind.