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Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll to Heroin Addict

Jude Hassan grew up in a comfortable, middle-class home in suburban St. Louis. Until his mid-teens he was an ordinary boy who did well in sports and school and loved his family. That changed at fifteen, when he first tried marijuana and alcohol at a high school party. Within a month he had tried heroin, which had only recently reached the suburban party scene, and he assumed one time would be harmless.

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It was not. Within a few months his life had fallen apart. This memoir follows nearly ten years of addiction and the disturbing things he witnessed along the way, told with a great deal of detail and a pace that keeps the reader turning pages.

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