A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin,
alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones
make the first steps into recovery"This manual for self-realization comes not
from a mountain but from the mud…My qualification is not that I am better
than you but I am worse.“ –Russell BrandWith a rare mix of honesty, humor,
and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story
and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of
recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of
addiction–from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to
work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that
addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean,
sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not
"Why are you addicted?” but "What pain is your addiction masking? Why are you
running–into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong
person's arms?"Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going,
he's started his own men's group, he's a therapy regular and a practiced
yogi–and while he's worked on this material as part of his comedy and
previous bestsellers, he's never before shared the tools that really took him
out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery
plan, but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.
Author Biography
Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, activist, and author of
several bestselling books, including the New York Times bestsellers My Booky
Wook and Revolution. He has had a number of major film roles including parts in
Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek. Funded by his profits from
Revolution, Russell opened a nonprofit coffee house in London run as a social
enterprise by former drug addicts in abstinence-based recovery programs. He
lives in London, England.
