The first ever anthology, a collection of 18 essays about addiction and recovery from some of the world’s top addiction and recovery writers.

The Addiction Diaries: Stories of Darkness, Hope and All That Falls in Between” (ISBN: 978-1951407278) features stories about a woman trying to save her brother from his gambling addiction, a child heroin user who recovers and finds a calm life, a mother of two addicts who watches them go from jail to freedom and a former bank robber reflecting on nearly two decades of sobriety, among many others.

The collection is equal parts harrowing, heartbreaking and hopeful — a comprehensive work that shows addiction and recovery from every angle, age, socioeconomic level and race.

While the opiate crisis rages on — roughly 50,000 people a year die as a result of opiate addiction — an additional 88,000 a year die from alcohol-related causes. Cases of addiction have only risen since March, leading some to call the addiction crisis “the pandemic within the pandemic.” But what the headlines don’t cover is the hope that comes after recovery. That’s where this collection comes in.