Book Lifelines Tackles Addiction in Baltimore and Beyond
The book Lifelines by Leana Wen, MD—a public health expert, emergency physician, and the former Baltimore City health commissioner—dedicates two whole chapters to addiction. In Wen’s experience as health commissioner in Baltimore, where TruHealing has centers and the Amatus Health headquarters is located, “addiction is tied into every other issue in the city.” Wen discusses […]
Even More Books About Addiction, Recovery, and Mental Health
Learning about addiction and sobriety is helpful for recovery. It’s empowering to understand your own and others’ experiences. In that spirit, here are some books about addiction, recovery, and mental health to add to the ones we recommended here, here, and here. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel Judith Grisel is […]
Recommendations: Books about Addiction and Recovery
Since I’ve been sober, I’ve been drawn to books about others’ sobriety. Essays, poetry, or even—in one case— a memoir set in the apocalypse. I love to read about how people came to recovery.