Good Girls On Bad Drugs: Addiction Nonfiction in a Revised Edition (1) - Softcover

Braunstein, Mark Mathew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963566342 ISBN 13: 9780963566348

Publisher: Panacea Press, 2019

Synopsis

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Good Girls on Bad Drugs portrays the shattered lives of girls next door who became crack, coke, opioid, and heroin addicts, and who in their hustle for drugs became streetwalkers and internet escorts. In jailhouse journals and interviews, they confess with candor and courage to their sex work and drug crimes. Doomed by their addictions, most girls never recover, while others die young from AIDS, OD, or murder. Here a spotlight is shined upon 22 lives. One chapter, one life. And sometimes one death.

Living and dying on the fringes of society, four fatally overdosed, including Olivia, a 17-year-old internet escort whose death exposed a prostitution ring. Renee, Michelle, and Hope were murdered by johns. Liz was an accessory to two murders. Darlene, after her prison break, was hunted in two states. Heather robbed six banks in three states in six consecutive days. All their photos and interviews are included in these dramatic true crime stories about some guys' lust for sex and these girls' thirst for drugs.

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CONTENTS

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Part One - The UNDERWORLD

01 - MARIE - A Shadowy Figure Afoot Flashes "The Look"

02 - LINDA - Mr Crack Introduces Ms Jane to Mr John

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Part Two - The INTERNET ESCORTS

03 - NORWICH and the Bad Bets on the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos

04 - LADY LUCK - The Escorts' Guide to the Casinos

05 - THE THREE GRACES - Outcasts on Outcalls

06 - DEVON - Casino Escort of Last Resort

07 - OLIVIA - The Grisly Death of the Girl from Griswold

08 - KATRINA - Life as Hurricane

09 - HOPE - Topless Dancer in a Bottomless Pit

10 - LYNNE - The Crackhead Addicted to Prostitution

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Part Three - The STREETWALKERS

11 - NEW LONDON - A Whale of a Tale and a Tail of a Whale

12 - COPS & RUBBERS - The Streetwalkers' Guide to the City

13 - HEATHER - The Seriously Serial Bank Bandit

14 - RENEE - A Connecticut Lawyer in Judge Arthur's Court

15 - TRISH - Off to See the Wizard of Poz

16 - JESSICA - The Prodigal Mom

17 - DARLENE - Escape to Never-Never Land

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Part Four - The HEROIN HEROINES

18 - WILD and ANTIC WILLIMANTIC - The Riddle of the Syringe

19 - JOE the JOHN - And Now a Word from Our Sponsors

20 - LIZ - Woman Who Runs with the Werewolves

21 - JENNIFER - Beauty and the Beasts

22 - BONNIE - She Takes the High Road and He Takes the Low Road

23 - AMBROSIA - Walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

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Part Five - ANOTHER WORLD

24 - ROBIN - The Prosthetic Prostitute

25 - SEX for HIGHER - A Eulogy

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APPENDICES

Documentation

Further Reading

List of 41 Photographs

Glossary of Street Slang

About this title

About the Author

Mark Mathew Braunstein was released into the community after 33 years of solitary confinement as an art curator and college librarian, two professions notorious for harboring dangerous criminals. 

His writer rap sheet includes four other propagandizing books, including one that the Washington Post denounced for being "remarkably intelligent." He has contributed more than one-hundred ephemeral articles to pedantic academic journals and to glossy consumerist magazines that include Backpacker, Vegetarian Times, New Mobility, and Natural Health, all about an array of topics such as art history, literary criticism, holistic health, wildlife conservation, animal rights, vegetable lefts, vegan vegetarianism, indoor gardening, mobility disability, medical marijuana, cannabis culture, and drug law reform. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Panacea Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963566342
• ISBN 13: 9780963566348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250