Euphoric Recall

Martin, Aidan

ISBN 10: 1999882369 / ISBN 13: 9781999882365

Edité par Guts Publishing Ltd, 2020

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Synopsis :

"As a schoolboy already caught up in addiction, I stood outside of a McDonald's waiting for a man I thought was my friend. A friend I met online. It would change my life forever. I was a streetwise kid growing up in a tough housing scheme, but the Internet was a new phenomenon. Euphoric Recall details my recovery from extreme trauma and addiction. As a Scottish working-class lad who grew up in a new town – Livingston – I also survived brutal experiences with suicide, violence, and severe mental health issues. One day I decided to write a memoir about it. I hold nothing back." — Aidan Martin

Euphoric Recall is the powerful true story of a Scottish working-class lad and his recovery from addiction and trauma.

On 23 September 2020, Neil Findlay MSP created Scottish Parliament Motion S5M-22809 to acknowledge the book's positive contribution to the debate around the drug-deaths crisis in Scotland:

"That the Parliament congratulates Aidan Martin from Livingston on the publication of his first book, Euphoric Recall; understands that the book details Aidan's recovery from extreme trauma and addiction and recalls his survival and experiences of drugs, suicide, violence and mental ill health; notes that Aidan now works with, and provides support and counselling to, drug users seeking help for their addiction; wishes Aidan well with the book, and looks forward to it being a positive contribution to the debate around drugs and drug deaths in Scotland."

The motion is supported by: Richard Lyle, David Stewart, Brian Whittle, Miles Briggs, Stuart McMillan, Mark McDonald, Rona Mackay, Monica Lennon, Kenneth Gibson, Bill Kidd, Sarah Boyack, and Jeremy Balfour.

"EUPHORIC RECALL is powerful and gritty a memoir that explores addiction from the inside, rather than through the hazy lens of statistics and remote experts. An illuminating and important book." – Adam Alter, author of New York Times bestsellers Irresistible (March 2017) and Drunk Tank Pink (2013).

"A truly essential read for those interested in lived experiences-and not just statistics." - Darren 'Loki' McGarvey, author of Poverty Safari (Orwell Prize 2018).

"We need more books like this – authentic and brutally honest about growing up in the lowlands of working class Scotland. What Martin allows the reader to do is to come to their own answer to that staple question of social sciences-nature or nurture?" — David Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Criminology and author of bestselling A History of British Serial Killing (2010).

"Aidan Martin delivers a gritty gut-punch memoir about the realities and complexities of addiction. Raw, honest and insightful, Aidan shows the reader how compulsion and addiction are just the tip of a much deeper iceberg that has sunk many a Titanic. And in his story, we see that addiction in the 21st century can have many varieties and flavors to escape the shame, emptiness and suffering that so many are struggling with in the Digital Age." — Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, author of Glow Kids, Addiction Expert, Professor Stony Brook Medicine

À propos de l'auteur: Born in Ladywell, Livingston, Aidan Martin is a debuting memoirist. His first book, Euphoric Recall, discusses in detail his recovery from addiction and many traumas including sexual abuse. Aidan currently works as a mental health and addictions worker as well as studying social work at master's degree level. In 2017 he gained an Honours Degree in Social Sciences: with Criminology and Sociology. As a grateful recovering addict, Aidan is heavily involved in the recovery scene. For more info: www.aidanmartinauthor.co.uk

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Euphoric Recall
Éditeur : Guts Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition : 2020
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Like New