![]() He saw his drug use as a symptom of depression, but the experts insisted that addiction was the problem. By age nineteen, he'd been through medical detox, inpatient rehab, twelve-step programs, and a halfway house. In his groundbreaking memoir, The Weight of Air, David chronicles his struggle to overcome mental illness and addiction. ![]() More than a decade in a double life fueled by depression and heroin. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth. While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. A potent addition to the literature on drug addiction and recovery."-Kirkus Reviews (starred) ![]()
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