Nicole D'Settemi Addictarium

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Drugs. Sex. Detox. Art. Recovery. Prostitution. Music. Streetlife. Poetry. Toxic love. And, those are just on the surface. The layers and complexities of Addictarium will shock and enthrall you...When wild-child, and south Florida escapee, Danielle Martino finds herself curled in a ball on the cold tile floors of her filthy rank bathroom in the tiny studio she rents with her fiance and partner-in-crime, she knows it's time to quit abusing heroin. Severely impaired from shooting a bad batch of black tar heroin, and already partially blind from the infection that the muddy poison has caused, she is forced to hitch a Greyhound bus to New York City, and to abandon her care-free, American-bohemian, drug infested lifestyle.Hailed everywhere as a beautiful, unique, honest, raw and poetic account of recovery, Addictarium takes readers on a compelling journey through the life and eyes of the narrator; a creative, nomadic, deep but, incidentally broken young woman, and underlines the contributing factors to what it's really like to suffer from addiction. With magnificent candor and sometimes emotionally crippling descriptions we witness Danielle's fight towards recovery from more than just heroin, as Addictarium brings the readers on a fascinating and harrowing, brutal tale of a young women's recovery from total and mass self-destruction.Addictarium highlights in the starkest of lights, why it is so difficult for addicts to receive the recovery they seek when they finally do decide to put the drug down.