General Addiction
Hundreds of memoirs dealing with addiction have been published successfully over the years. Among those I've read and appreciated are:
Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater (London Magazine, 1821)
Caroline Knapp's Drinking: A Love Story (Dial, 1997)
William Burrough's Naked Lunch (Grove, 1962)
Augusten Burrough's Dry (St. Martin's Press, 2003)
Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes (Random House, 1968)
Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life (Little, Brown, 1994)
Have any of these books, or other memoirs of addiction, had an impact — positive or negative — on you?