David Poses - The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery Audiobook

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The Weight of Air
A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery
By: David Poses
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
Release date: 09-28-21
Unabridged Audiobook
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio

Publisher’s summary

While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth. Twenty-six inches. Thirty-two years old. More than a decade in a double life fueled by depression and heroin.

In his groundbreaking memoir, The Weight of Air, David chronicles his struggle to overcome mental illness and addiction. By age 19, he’d been through medical detox, inpatient rehab, 12-step programs, and a halfway house. He saw his drug use as a symptom of depression, but the experts insisted that addiction was the problem. Over the next 13 years, he went from one relapse to the next, drowning in guilt, shame, and secrets, until he finally found an evidence-based treatment that not only saved his life, but helped him thrive.

With grit, humor, and brutal honesty, David’s story exposes the danger in traditional recovery models: They actually increase stigma and the risk of overdose, relapse, and death. As depression and addiction rates skyrocket and overdose fatalities surge, The Weight of Air is a scathing indictment of our failed response to the opioid crisis-and proof that success is possible.

©2021 David Poses (P)2021 Tantor