America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life Audiobook (Free)

America Anonymous may be the unforgettable story of eight women and men from throughout the country-including a grandmother, a college student, a bodybuilder, and a housewife-who are struggling with addictions. For nearly three years, acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives because they battled drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, and compulsive gambling and sexuality. Alternating using their tales is usually Denizet-Lewis’s candid account of his own recovery from sexual addiction about America Anonymous: Eight Lovers in Search of a Existence and his persuasive examination of our lifestyle of dependency, where we obsessively seek out new and innovative methods to escape the reality of today’s moment and make ourselves feel ‘better.’

Dependency is arguably America’s biggest public-health problems, triggering and exacerbating quite a few most pressing sociable problems (criminal offense, poverty, skyrocketing health-care costs, and childhood abuse and disregard). But while cancers and AIDS survivors have taken to the streets-and towards the halls of Congress-demanding to be counted, an incredible number of lovers with effective long-term recovery talk only to each other in the confines of private twelve-step meetings. (A notable exclusion may be the addicted superstar, who frequently enters and exits rehab with great fanfare.) Through the riveting tales of Americans in a variety of phases of recovery and relapse, Denizet-Lewis shines a spotlight on our most misunderstood medical condition (Is addiction a mind disease? A religious malady? A moral faltering?) and breaks through the shame and denial that still form our cultural knowledge of it-and hamper our capability to deal with it.

Are Americans more addicted than people far away, or would it simply seem that way? Can food or sex end up being as addictive as alcohol and drugs? And will we ever be able to treat addiction having a pill? They are just a few of the queries Denizet-Lewis explores during his amazing journey in the lives of women and men struggling to become, or stay, sober. As the lovers in this publication stumble, fall, and try again to produce a different and better existence, Denizet-Lewis information their struggles-and his own-with integrity and empathy.