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The Bitter Taste of Dying
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain an opiate addiction so fierce, he finds himself jumping continents to avoid jail time and learns the hard way that some demons cannot be outrun. While teaching in Europe, he meets a prostitute who secures drugs for him at the dangerous price of helping out the Russian Mafia; in China he gets his Percocet and Xanax fixes but terrifies a crowd of children and parents at his job in the process; and in Mexico Smith thought a Tijuana jail cell would be the perfect place to kick his Fentanyl habit but soon realizes that the power of addiction is stronger than his desire to escape it.
The Bitter Taste of Dying paints a portrait of the modern-day drug addict with clarity and refreshing honesty. With a gritty mixture of self-deprecation and lighthearted confessional, Smith's memoir deftly describes the journey into the harrowing depths of addiction and demonstrates the experience of finally being released from it.
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- malcolm thompson
- 08-09-22
The bitter taste of diying
Brilliant book riveting couldn’t stop listening thoroughly recommend
This audiobook you won’t be able to stop
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- Alan T
- 16-02-22
Useful to hear other addicts stories
Useful for anyone in recovery, I could empathise with a lot of it unfortunately but always good to hear of someone turning a corner and overcoming their addiction.
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- Debbie
- 10-12-23
Brilliant
An amazing memoir. Bittersweet, drew me in and gave me an insight I would never have realised.
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- Sal
- 12-09-21
Inputdownable
I don't know what made me chose this book but I started listening to it and just couldn't stop. The performance was so believeale that I forgot it wasn't narrated by the author and the story is so believable that I deliberately haven't researched the author in case it's not a true story. A grim hard read but I loved it
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- Sazza
- 06-05-22
An honest, funny, heartfelt memoir about the plight of being an addict
If you ever find yourself in the grip of addiction, this memoir will help you, with humour and honesty, understand the nature of your addiction, the excuses you tell yourself and others, the hell you put yourself and others through til you come out the other end, free and once more a functional happy human being, who may be able to help others kick their habits.
This book also gives insight to the long suffering loved ones of addicts, helping them to appreciate how utterly consuming being an addict is, thereby assisting you to understand the nature of their addiction in order to recognise what they don’t need from you.
Loved this book! Great narration tool I’ll be recommending it.
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- Damian
- 14-09-21
Fantastic, authentic story of recovery
Really enjoyable authetic story, told with all the hallmarks of one who journeyed from a hopeless place of Addiction to genuine recovery.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-21
Thought-provoking + insightful + hilarious!
This book is a 10/10. I was in bits laughing half the time, and very deep in thought about the very serious topic the other half. This book was superb. A MUST read. The reader really sold the story too!
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- Neil Micallef
- 02-01-23
Hard hitting 5*
This was a great book. When listening and comparing some of the events from Jason’s life to my own, it really made me think about a few things, how my life could of been so different if I’d of made better and different decisions.
FYI I’m nothing like Jason - thank god.
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- Sigrin
- 02-11-21
Bitter pill
Sad story of decline into a world of opiate addiction.
Horrific moment for me was when he confessed to his doctor that he was misusing his pain medication and that doctor not acting on this information, then prescribed him fentanyl a drug fat more powerful than heroin is simply beyond comprehension.That doctor should be struck off.
This book describes the what happens in the mind of a drug addict and how they will sell their soul for the next high.
Other books that I would recommend in this genre is Chasing the scream by Johan Hari and Good cop bad war by Neil Woods
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- Stryder
- 03-10-21
Unexpected
Having struggled with addiction this book hit home on many levels, even though heroine isn’t my demon ….
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