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America Anonymous is the memorable storyline of eight men and women from around the country -- including a grandmother, a college pupil, a bodybuilder, and a housewife -- fighting addictions. For nearly 3 years, acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives as they battled medicine and alcohol maltreatment, overeating, and compulsive gambling and sexuality. Alternating using their reviews is Denizet-Lewis's candid account of his own recovery from sexual dependency and his convincing examination of our culture of cravings, where we obsessively seek out new and ground breaking ways to flee the truth of today's point in time and make ourselves feel "better."
Dependency is arguably this country's biggest public-health problems, triggering and exacerbating quite a few most pressing interpersonal problems (offense, poverty, skyrocketing health-care costs, and years as a child abuse and neglect). But while cancer and Helps survivors took to the streets -- and also to the halls of Congress -- requiring to be counted, an incredible number of addicts with successful long-term recovery talk only to the other person in the confines of anonymous Twelve Step meetings. (A notable exemption is the addicted movie star, who often gets into and exits rehab with great fanfare.) Throughout the riveting reviews of Americans in various stages of recovery and relapse, Denizet-Lewis shines a limelight on our most misinterpreted medical condition (is dependency a brain disease? A spiritual malady? A moral failing?) and breaks through the shame and denial that still shape our cultural knowledge of it -- and hamper our ability to treat it.
Are Us citizens more addicted than people far away, or does it just seem like that? Can food or making love be as addictive as drugs and alcohol? And can we ever be able to treat dependency with a tablet? These are just a several questions Denizet-Lewis explores during his amazing quest inside the lives of men and women struggling to be, or stay, sober. As the addicts in this publication stumble, fall, and try again to produce a different and better life, Denizet-Lewis records their challenges -- and his own -- with honesty and empathy.
