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Don't Count Me Out : A Baltimore Dope Fiend's Miraculous Recovery /
"This biography chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginnings of his drug use in elementary school through the criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs to his unlikely recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilita...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The most interesting book the old man had ever read
- Birth/school: before it got ugly
- Skipping stones/getting stoned: grade school
- Failing the seventh grade
- Ninth grade in the psych ward [until they threw him out]
- Last chance high: the Baltimore Experimental High School
- Spanish Harlem: there could have been blood
- Big fucking Indian
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Shoot out on ready
- The stolen carpet and the fat girl: State of Maryland inmate no. 215799 March 1991 to August
- Misadventure en route to the underworld: 1995 through Elvis's birthday,
- Frank White/ inmate junkie
- Free to go
- Third time a charm
- College/career/shirt & tie
- One promise
- The D train
- Epilogue: a day in his best life, Thanksgiving weekend.