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Outreach and Education

ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE
Vermont Health Department
American Psychiatric Association
Addiction and Substance Use Disorders
American Society of Addiction Medicine
Center on Addiction
Howard Center
We serve children, adults, families and communities as the designated provider for mental health and developmental disability services and the preferred provider for substance use services in Chittenden County.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
NATIONAL OPIOIDS CRISIS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Opioid Overdose
CDC
Substance abuse
World Health Organization
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Vermont's Opioid Addiction: A Family Crisis
BAART Programs is a multi-service organization, and brand of BayMark Health Services, providing opioid addiction treatment and rehabilitation for patients across the country.

Biographies and Memoirs from Addicts

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
ISBN: 9780140100181
Publication Date: 1987-07-07
A diary of the author's early teen years in the mid-1960s, telling how he progressed from sniffing glue to shooting heroin while playing basketball for Trinity High School in Manhattan.
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
ISBN: 9781328974716
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Tying in to the release of the feature film starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet, a timeless tale of addiction, healing, and family, with a new Afterword by the author.
Blackout by Sarah Hepola
ISBN: 9781455554584
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century woman.
Doc by Dwight Gooden; Jeff Johnson; Ellis Henican
ISBN: 9780544027022
Publication Date: 2013-06-04
One of the bad boys of the 1986 World Series-winning Mets discusses his life, from his Atlanta childhood with his alcoholic womanizing father, through his baseball career, self-destructive drug binges and experience on Celebrity Rehab. 60,000 first printing
Drinking by Caroline Knapp
ISBN: 9780385315548
Publication Date: 1997-05-12
Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life.
Dry by Augusten X. Burroughs
ISBN: 9781250034403
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twentysomething guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all.
Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs; Aziz Ansari (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781492664109
Publication Date: 2018-02-26
One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever.. Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work on shows like Parks and Recreation, had died of a heroin overdose. How do you make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance?
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
ISBN: 9780743247542
Publication Date: 2006-01-17
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
ISBN: 9780545902472
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
A powerful graphic memoir by the award-winning author of Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute traces the author's unconventional coming of age with a drug-addict mother, an absent father and two lovingly opinionated grandparents.
Life by Keith Richards
ISBN: 9780316034418
Publication Date: 2011-05-03
With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane.
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
ISBN: 0385507755
Publication Date: 2003-04-15
A memoir of drug and alcohol abuse and the rehabilitation experience examines addiction and recovery through the eyes of a man who had taken his addictions to deadly extremes, describing the battle to confront the consequences of his life.
The Night of the Gun by David Carr
ISBN: 9781416541530
Publication Date: 2009-06-02
Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times.
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
ISBN: 1400052297
Publication Date: 2007-04-10
There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.
Smashed by Koren Zailckas
ISBN: 9780143036470
Publication Date: 2006-01-31
Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment.
Tweak by Nic Sheff
ISBN: 9781416913627
Publication Date: 2008-02-19
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff
ISBN: 9780316080828
Publication Date: 2011-04-05
Sheff writes candidly about stints at in-patient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
The Dead Inside by Cyndy Etler
ISBN: 9781492635734
Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Cyndy Ehler recounts her sixteen months living in a drug rehabilitation facility, after having run away at the age of fourteen.

Articles & Information

3 ways Vermont offers hope to people struggling with opioid addiction
Burlington Free Press
Addiction
Gale: Health & Wellness Resource Center
Addiction - Psychology Today
LIFE AFTER ADDICTION
Time Magazine: AFTER VIDEO OF THEIR OVERDOSE WENT VIRAL, A COUPLE GOT A CHANCE AT REDEMPTION
My Addicted Son
The Opiate Crisis: Stories and Solutions
Vermont PBS
Opioid Addiction
Collection of articles about opioid addiction from VPR.
A Vermont needle exchange isn’t just giving out syringes. It’s offering treatment on the spot.
Vermont obituary tells of opioid struggle. Here's where to find treatment.
Burlington Free Press
Vermont Opioid Summary
National Institute on Drug Abuse

The Meth Epidemic
ISBN: 0793691575
A "Frontline" report on the origins, history, and consequences of methamphetamine use and addiction in the U.S.

Chasing Heroin
PBS Frontline
Expressions of Addiction
Expressions of Addiction is an exhibit of original photographic portraits that depict people in various stages and expressions of addiction. Each portrait includes a brief bio about the subject. These photographs are part of a photography exhibition that will help the public better understand addiction by reaching hundreds of thousands through gallery exhibitions, a television program, and Internet web sites.

Book Resources

Dopesick by Beth Macy
ISBN: 9780316551243
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
Clean by David Sheff
ISBN: 9780547848655
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
Combines personal stories and experiences with cutting edge research to describe a new way of treating substance addiction as well as accompanying mental illnesses.
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9781594204227
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
The best-selling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma presents a groundbreaking investigation into the medical and scientific revolution currently taking place in the field of psychedelic drugs, drawing on a range of experiences to trace the criminalization of such substances as LSD and psychedelic mushrooms and how they may offer treatment options for difficult health challenges.
Legalizing Marijuana by Margaret Goldstein
ISBN: 9781467792431
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
With the increase in states legalizing marijuana, understanding the debate about marijuana is more important than ever. Learn about the movement to legalize, the arguments on each side, and what it means for patients, state economies, and legal systems. Examine issues including the history of the movement toward legalization in the United States, efforts toward legalization around the globe, the risks/benefits of marijuana use, how it works in the body, safety regulations, economic impact of legalization, problems surrounding patchwork legalization across the nation, and the dark side of marijuana: addiction.

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