Strung Out: A Memoir Of Overcoming Addiction

Growing up in LA, Erin Khar hid behind a picture-perfect childhood filled with excellent grades, a popular group of friends and horseback riding. After first experimenting with her grandmother's expired painkillers, Khar started using heroin when she was thirteen. The drug allowed her to escape from pressures to be perfect and suppress all the heavy feelings she couldn't understand. This fiercely honest memoir explores her fifteen-year struggle with addiction and details the various lies she told herself, and others, about her drug use. With enormous heart and wisdom, she shows how the shame and stigma surrounding addiction, which fuels denial and deceit, is so often what keeps addicts from getting help. While there is no one path to recovery, for Khar it was in motherhood that she found the strength and self-forgiveness to quit heroin and fight for her life. Strung Out is a life-affirming story of resilience while also a gripping investigation into the psychology of addiction and why people turn to opioids in the first place.

Author: Erin Khar

Publisher: Park Row

Publication Date: 31-Aug-21

Number of Pages: 336 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0778389308

ISBN-13: 9780778389309