Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France

7 reviews

therat8's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.75

Must read. Slow and ultimately a little too long. I think everyone should try to read this even if they don't finish it because reading even part of it would be very informing of the aids crisis

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Grief, and Outing

laurenmaria422's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Police brutality, and Dementia

transtwill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

readingatthemuseum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

bexh's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Biphobia, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Lesbophobia

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Outing, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Suicide, and Pregnancy