A review by mick
Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict by Joshua Lyon

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.