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A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming's experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion. A philosopher by training, Fleming combines meticulous observation of his life with a keen sense of th...

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Main Author: Fleming, Chris, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Artarmon, NSW, Australia : Giramondo, 2019.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming's experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion. A philosopher by training, Fleming combines meticulous observation of his life with a keen sense of the absurdity of his actions. He describes the intricacies of drug use and acquisition, their impact on the intellect and emotions, and the chaos that emerges as his tightly managed existence unravels into arrests, hospitalisations and family breakdown. His account is accompanied by searching reflections on his childhood, during which he developed acute obsessive compulsive disorder and became fixated on martial arts, music-making and bodybuilding. In confronting the pathos and comedy of drug use, On Drugs also opens out into meditations on the self and its deceptions, on popular culture, religion and mental illness, and the tortuous path to recovery.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781925818185
1925818187
9781925818178
1925818179
Access:National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales

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