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© 2016 by Peg O’Connor

All rights reserved. Published 2016.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: O’Connor, Peg, 1965-

Title: Life on the rocks: finding meaning in addiction and recovery / Peg O’Connor.

Description: Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036173| ISBN 9781942094036 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Substance abuse--Patients--Rehabilitation. | Substance abuse--Psychological aspects. | Addicts--Behavior modification.

Classification: LCC RC564 .O28 2016 | DDC 362.29--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036173

Photo of Peg O’Connor by Steven Yang. Used with permission.

Early versions of Chapters Two, Five, and Twenty were first published in the New York Times (titled “In the Cave: Philosophy and Addiction,” “The Fallacy of the ‘Hijacked Brain,’” and “The Light at the End of Suffering,” respectively). Reprinted here with permission.

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