17 Heart-Wrenching Memoirs About Addiction

While Burroughs has written extensively about his life, this memoir focuses on the period when he juggled a successful job in advertising (sense a theme here?) with a drinking problem. As the name suggests, Dry: A Memoir focuses on the aftermath of an addiction as much as the author's drinking days. A particularly poignant moment describes Burroughs returning home from rehab to find his apartment decorated with hundreds of empty booze bottles. — NE