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With a forward by Carl Reiner and 273 pages of well-written and entertaining prose that follows, who can resist the temptation to delve inside the life and times of one of the best-known television comedians in Hollywood? Readers of My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir, by Dick Van Dyke, certainly won’t be disappointed. ...

Let's be very clear from the outset that A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard is a painful book to read. It is also a parent's worst nightmare. ...

Isn't it interesting how we can somehow find it easier to read the account of a celebrity and how he or she dealt with an addiction or process behavior than we can to recognize it in ourselves? When it comes to celebrities and eating disorders, there is certainly any number of books available to choose from. ...

The title alone is enough to make you want to pick up the book, Little Madhouse on the Prairie: A True-Life Story of Overcoming Abuse and Healing the Spirit, by Marion Elizabeth Witte, and read it. But this is no charming story of a Laura Ingalls character. It is a heartfelt and often painful to read account of a childhood weighed down by abuse, alcoholism, incredible hardship and abandonment. ...

It may seem that a book detailing the experimentation and addiction to cocaine by two respected men of science, Sigmund Freud and William Halsted, would be a dry account of the obsessive pursuits by long-dead individuals. As such, one could come to the conclusion that there's nothing new that can be gleaned from such an account. ...

Talk about a provocative title! Not only that, but the cover art shows a skull with an open mouth and colorful pills cascading into it from above. This is just a preview of what’s to come inside the pages from pharmacist addict and alcoholic Jared Combs. ...

Many books have been written about addiction and treatment. Each author has a different slant, or take, on the subject of addiction, what can be done about it, various treatment options, and so forth. Many are poignant biographies, telling the author’s story in painstaking and heartbreaking detail. ...

Imagine the heartbreak of a father learning that his son, his precious child who was always so smart, so cheerful, so full of life, is addicted. If you have never gone through the experience, it can be hard to understand the torment and unending anguish that such a parent - mother or father - would feel. ...

The next time you're on the freeway and see an otherwise well-put-together woman driving a bit erratically, it could very well be that you're witnessing a high-functioning alcoholic. Moms who get together for social activities may be secret imbibers – and you'd never know it to look at them. At home, alone or with family, wives and mothers may tip back way too many drinks and see nothing wrong at all with t ...

It's often said that addiction is a family disease, and it is, but it is one thing to hear that and another to actually comprehend what it means. Statistics and research studies can be starkly illuminating and profoundly disturbing at the same time. There's only one way to really know how addiction tears the guts out of a family – and that's to experience it. In The Lost Years, written by the mother-daughte ...