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By Etler, Cyndy[2017], Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Etler's intense, unforgettable memoir uncovers the lies behind Straight, Inc., a teen rehab facility that was supposed to give teens help. Instead, it gave them hell.
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By Etler, Cyndy[2017], Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: Teen Fiction FIC ETL Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At age fourteen, Cyndy Etler had escaped from her violent home only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehabilitation facility that changed her world. Behind the closed doors of Straight, Inc., the program used bizarre and intimidating methods to treat its patients. In this memoir, Cyndy recounts the living nightmare that she endured for sixteen months at Straight, Inc.
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By Etler, Cyndy[2017]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: B Etler Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Memoir of Cyndy Etler about her teenage years spent in Straight, Inc., a drug rehabilitation facility she was sent to after running away from her violent home. Discusses the bizarre and intimidating methods Straight, Inc., used to try to treat its patients, and how Cyndy escaped what she called the facility's living nightmare.
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By Sheff, Nic2009., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HI-INT B SHE Edition: 1st Atheneum Books for Young Readers pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were.
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By Sheff, Nic2009, c2008., Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Atheneum Books Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes his childhood in California, his addiction to crystal meth and heroin at a young age, his relapse after eighteen months of sobriety, and his path to recovery.
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By Sheff, Nicc2007., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: B Sheff Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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By Sheff, Nic2012, c2011., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes his experiences as a patient in a drug-rehabilitation facility and his relapses with drugs and alcohol, and discusses what it is like to be a young person living with addictions in the United States.