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xylem's review against another edition
4.0
Another memoir about harsh reality! Woot! Pill Head is very insightful, very objective, and a very interesting account of Lyon's pain killer addicted life. Pill Head adds more on that with other points of addicted teens/adults and builds from everypoint - to getting pills, and to groups on awareness. The story he tells is straightforward and depicts his troubled adolescence/mostly adulthood with his drug usage. It's not just about painkillers - it's a very harsh society depicted with controversial issues from HIV to homosexuality.
mick's review against another edition
2.0
Pill Head wasn't as great of a book as I thought it was going to be. It was less a memoir of the author than a journalistic approach similar to the way he might have approached writing an article for Jane magazine. "Ok, I'm the author, and I had this experience. Also, these folks over here, let's write about them for a while, they had this other experience. Now what about these other guys? Them too!" It really was teetering between a memoir and an anthropological study... It really could have been turned into a more factual book, or it could have been centered more about the author and his experiences. Either way, I was a bit bored and have definitely read better memoirs about addiction. I just thought this one would be interesting since it was about pills instead of the usual suspects like cocaine or heroin, that's all.
dommdy's review against another edition
2.0
Basically a drugalog. I was more interested in the recovery than the blow by blow of addiction. makes me wonder if he is really in recovery
aritrow's review against another edition
2.0
Eh, just okay imo. Interested read as a biography and then all the facts and other perspectives got in the way..
stephaknee's review against another edition
3.0
As other reviewers have mentioned, this book does seem a little disjointed. The author jumps around between personal stories, stories of friends and factual information regarding prescription drug use, abuse and distribution. Still, I'm a sucker for addiction memoirs and this one fit the bill. It also helped shed some light on why it is so difficult for me to obtain a legit prescription for pain killers (I suffer from severe migraines). All in all an interesting and enlightening read.
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