Download or read book Crackheads Need Love Too written by Deidra Lee Thompson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has that family member, loved one, or friend who battles some form of addictionfrom drugs and alcohol, to sex, gambling, and even spending. In Crackheads Need Love Too, author Deidra Lee Thompson helps you understand that anyone struggling with addiction has deeper rooted issues, hurts, and past experiences that have caused them to turn to the addiction as a source of comfort. Based on her personal experiences with her husbands addiction to crack, Thompson offers Christian-based advice on how to deal with and help a loved one suffering from addiction. With ample scriptural references, Crackheads Need Love Too shows how Gods word communicates that love covers a multitude of wrongs. We must learn to love the addict in the right manner that helps them to seek and gain freedom from these entanglements. Sometimes that manifests in tough love. Other times it manifests in setting limits with and for the person. She suggests that believers must have faith to believe and see the promises God work in the lives of those cast away by society, yes even crackheads. Offering a Christian perspective on addiction, Crackheads Need Love Too shares both a personal story and extends hope to others who are experiencing similar situations.

Download or read book Crackhead written by Lisa Lennox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Lennox transports readers to the heart of the crack era—the South Bronx, New York City, 1989. In the late 1980s and early 90s, the crack epidemic swept through inner city communities like the plague. Mothers abandoned their children and took to the street for a hit. Fathers sold everything they owned to get a taste. The crackhead was rampant. Some neighborhoods were never the same. Enter Laci Johnson, a beautiful, smart, privileged teenage girl from across town, who teams up with The South Bronx Bitches—an infamous girl group known for chasing men and money. When the SBB becomes envious of Laci they devise a plan to destroy her life. Finding love in the most unexpected of places, Laci turns to a local drug dealer to help save her and heal the wounds of her new addiction. Through Laci and a host of entertaining characters, Crackhead vividly captures the essence of an era and the devastating, sometimes fatal, consequences of addiction.

Download or read book Crackhead II written by Lisa Lennox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laci is a college student recovering from her drug addiction, her boyfriend Dink is adjusting to mainstream life at college after a life on the streets, and back home Dink's former drug empire is falling apart.

Download or read book Diary Of A Crack Addict s Wife written by Cynthia D. Hunter and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the harrowing and unflinchingly candid story of one woman's vicarious descent into a nightmare of drugs, fear and violence. Hunter was a respected army veteran with a good job, a son and a no-nonsense attitude. Then she met Mark Davis, who promised Cynthia the world. She was three months pregnant when she discovered her husband's crack addiction and she did all she could to keep this discovery a secret. Meanwhile Mark was transformed into a monster capable of anything. Mesmerising and heart-wrenching, this is a staggering account of her liberation.

Download or read book Crack Heads Only written by Francelia Poole and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only for a minute, her guard was down, the devil then intervened, took her joy away. She allows this to happen to her behind the love for a man, which distributes crack-cocaine. For Kat there was no escaping this drug for a season, to leave the drug alone forever, to never try or smoke again seems almost impossible. The tangle web of crack cocaine seems to follow her wherever she goes and who ever she meets seems to be involved one way or another with the drug. Katie Lucresia Bell, is actually three women who battle crack in their own way, the first life is with Mark Ballard, the juggler, runs a crack house and leave Shawn, with sights unseen to her and situations she have never heard of before, this crack bottles Kates mind where the drugs took her to another level in life. The last life is when she came home from the halfway house, the Church retaliates for the lamb of Christ. Now Katie has fallen in love and has to deny what her heart desires. You cannot mix love with crack-cocaine, the devil cannot love and crack is a demon.

Download or read book Iced written by Ray Shell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Iced is a powerhouse. . . . Ray Shell writes beautifully. The story is heartbreaking. I kept putting it down and picking it up again—it won’t let me go.”—Maya Angelou A timeless tale of one man’s decline into the depths of addiction that is at both a shocking study of the addict’s life, and a deeply compelling and often uplifting tale of human love and loss. First published at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic thirty years ago, Ray Shell’s “powerhouse” (Maya Angelou) of a novel is as timely and relevant today as it was in 1994. It is the story of Cornelius Washington, a young upper-middle-class Black man blessed with burning talent and ambition, who enjoys experimenting with drugs—a dangerous pastime that gradually becomes a destructive addiction. Now a middle-aged crackhead, Cornelius ponders his life and the choices that have led him here. Written as a series of immersive stream of consciousness diary entries, Iced captures the despair and dashed dreams of a man caught between the harsh realities of his present and the adventures and upheavals of his past—a youth marked by a host of characters both intriguing and terrifying. A complicated man both compelling and maddening, sympathetic and defiant, Cornelius tries desperately to break free from his addiction, a struggle that ends in defeat time and time again. Despite the thought loops that lead to his bad choices, this painfully realistic character elicits hope for his survival, even though he will likely meet a devastating end. Resonant and haunting, illuminating and heartbreaking, Iced paints a portait of being Black in America, and the ways in which marginalized communities are targeted and ignored, left to suffer the consequences of policies made by powerful people ignorant and uncaring of their lives. It is a novel that transcends time, offering a glimpse of the past that is present in our lives today.

Download or read book Pill Head written by Joshua Lyon and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling, honest book investigates the growing epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse among today's Generation Rx. Through gripping profiles and heartbreaking confessions, this memoir dares to uncover the reality -- the addiction, the withdrawal, and the recovery -- of this newest generation of pill poppers. Joshua Lyon was no stranger to substance abuse. By the time he was seventeen, he had already found sanctuary in pot, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms -- just to name a few. Ten years later, on assignment for Jane magazine, he found himself with a two-inch-thick bottle of Vicodin in his hands and only one decision to make: dispose of the bottle or give in to his curiosity. He chose the latter. In a matter of weeks he'd found his perfect drug. In the early half of this decade, purchasing painkillers without a doctor was as easy as going online and checking the spam filter in your inbox. The accessibility of these drugs -- paired with a false perception of their safety -- contributed to their epidemic-like spread throughout America's twenty-something youth, a group dubbed Generation Rx. Pill Head is Joshua Lyon's harrowing and bold account of this generation, and it's also a memoir about his own struggle to recover from his addiction to painkillers. The story of so many who have shared this experience--from discovery to addiction to rehabilitation -- Pill Head follows the lives of several young people much like Joshua and dares to blow open the cultural phenomena of America's newest pill-popping generation. Marrying the journalist's eye with the addict's mind, Joshua takes readers through the shocking and often painful profiles of recreational users and suffering addicts as they fight to recover. Pill Head is not only a memoir of descent, but of endurance and of determination. Ultimately, it is a story of encouragement for anyone who is wrestling to overcome addiction, and anyone who is looking for the strength to heal.

Download or read book Memoirs from a Daughter of Crackheads written by Keisha Khanyahl and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a memoir about my childhood

Download or read book A Child of A Crackhead 5 written by Shameek Speight and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil is real and his name is Black ice and he's coming for you next and you'll never see him coming until it's too late and you're in the back of a van kicking and screaming. Michael did everything in his power to kill his father Black ice but somehow he has returned and deep down he knows he can't stop him alone.

Download or read book Pipe Dream written by Solomon Jones and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squinting as the smoke rushed into his lungs. "Where do you want to start?"the lawyer said, lighting a cigarette of his own. "I guess there’s only one place to start; at Broad and Erie." Johnny Podres, a politician whose record against corruption had been propelling him straight to the mayor’s office, is found murdered in a North Philly crack house. Enter Samuel Jackson, a.k.a. Black, a drug addict who knows better, a man embittered by the fact that he can’t seem to escape from his addiction to crack cocaine or, for that matter, from himself. Though he was once a family man with a wife and son, Black’s only concern these days is getting his next high, that is, until he stumbles across a friend and fellow addict, Leroy, and both become prime suspects in the Podres murder. Black and Leroy hook up with two female pipers: Clarisse, a registered nurse who is slowly losing to crack any semblance of a respectable life, and Pookie, who already has lost it. Soon the hunt is on for all four as they try to stay one step ahead of a police department under tremendous pressure to solve the case—because if a killer isn’t found soon, this could blow up into one of the biggest scandals in Philadelphia history. Solomon Jones weaves a suspenseful story against the backdrop of corruption in the Philadelphia police department and centers it on a group of drug addicts who, in the process of fleeing the law, come to terms with their own addiction, leading to some devastating consequences.

Download or read book Blogs Bombs and Boobytraps written by Gina Sanford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Child of A CRACKHEAD II written by Shameek A. Speight and published by Shameek speight. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the notorious Black Ice missing or assumed dead, Michael Jr. and Rachel try to live a normal life. Will Rachel be able to fight the urge of wanting to get high? Will Michael Jr. be able to fight the blood that's running through his veins? Or will he be subcumbed to what he hates most, the demon he calls a father or the life of being once a child of a crack head break him?

Download or read book Thank God for Problems and Racism written by Philemon Barau and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barau investigates why people love the colorful painting of an artist but hate the colorful painting of God, as seen in His array of mankind--white, black, Asian, and Arab.

Download or read book Churches of Love written by Allen Butler Jr. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishop Owens is an Afro-American pastor who is tired of the poverty, crime, and drug addiction rate around the neighborhoods where his mega church is located. So he implements the teaching of Jesus "Love thy neighbor as you love yourself" while occupying the neighborhoods all day every day with thousands of members. The neighborhoods are changing, but the drug dealers don't agree and are trying to stop this movement by any means necessary! Although the bishop knows that this movement comes with hardship and some tragedies, he believes in what God has put in his heart to do. With the help of his better half and copastor S. Owens and his church organization, this too shall come to pass that God may get the glory.

Download or read book Spiritual and Social Commentary written by Billy Spears and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my mental meanderings I came across a thought, "Where does God fit into the scheme of things?" Upon realizing God is the scheme of things, I settled on the thought that God is the scheme I should follow. In these musings I was given the idea, we're all schemers. I was given the revelation to promote the goodness of God and I say this with God as my witness. The thing is God is the faithful witness. Faith without works is dead. So I wanted to cast aside the dead weight of the unfaithful and add some life to this life we live. Because in Genesis 1:2, God said, "Let there be light," and it was. It wasn't the sun, moon, or stars, but the true light of the world in the form of his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, who truly is Genesis 1:2, the light of the world. "Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, 'I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life'" (John 8:12). Jesus being the light of the world and me about to slip into darkness, quite naturally, I reached for the marvelous light instead. I wanted to pass on to others in the form of this book, Spiritual and Social Commentary. The commentator has commentated that I should write a spiritual and social commentary.

Download or read book Crack written by David Farber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Download or read book Under the Stars written by Dan White and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging in research, enthusiasm, and geography, Dan White's Under the Stars reveals a vast population of nature seekers, a country still in love with its wild places. “The definitive book on camping in America. . . . A passionate, witty, and deeply engaging examination of why humans venture into the wild.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s playground into a source of adventure, relaxation, and renewal. Whether he’s camping nude in cougar country, being attacked by wildlife while “glamping,” or crashing a girls-only adventure for urban teens, Dan White seeks to animate the evolution of outdoor recreation. In the process, he demonstrates how the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Roosevelt, and Muir—along with visionaries such as Adirondack Murray, Horace Kephart, and Juliette Gordon Low—helped blaze a trail from Transcendentalism to Leave No Trace.