Causes and Conditions: A Life Experience in Addiction and Recovery

Conniff, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0578870878 / ISBN 13: 9780578870878

Published by Joseph Conniff, 2021

About this Item

1st printing. Signed by Conniff on front flyleaf. 250pp. In a very nice jacket. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Seller Inventory # 070922

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Causes and Conditions: A Life Experience in Addiction and Recovery
• Publisher: Joseph Conniff
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578870878
• ISBN 13: 9780578870878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoirs and Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

On the surface, Joe Conniff grew up in a seemingly stereotypical suburban New England household. But behind those doors he witnessed the overprescribing of opioids to his mother, combined with the ups and downs of his father's often illegitimate occupation and unpredictability of life as a teenager. Eventually Joe found solace and relief in substances when looking for a way to escape the unpleasantness of life. That search for relief and identity took him from east coast white suburbia to military service, and finally grief, desperation and survival on the streets of the Pacific Northwest. Written from the perspective of recovery and having found happiness without the use of substances, Joe shares his experiences and insight about how he became a product of his environment growing up, and how confusion and conflict in the human condition led him to full blown addiction. This is an in-depth book about the causes and conditions of his extreme substance use, as well as the casues and conditions of his recovering from addiction.

About the Author

Joe Conniff is a person living in long-term recovery. Causes and Conditions is his first book, a memoir about his direct experiences in addiction, and life in the first half-decade of his recovery.