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NATIONAL BESTSELLER An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. Tiffany’s story continues in the New York Times bestseller A Clean Mess, available now!...

Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. It was the...

Find out who did it and why as I tell True Crime stories from your city and mine. Your realtor might have sold you a house, but did he tell you that it was used in a triple murder 60 years ago? Listen and find out.

Growing up on the streets of East L.A., Luis Rodriguez narrowly escaped a serious jail term and then struggled to overcome his powerful addiction to heroin and alcohol. Eventually, Rodriguez embarked on a career as a successful journalist and a highly regarded poet. In It Calls You Back, Rodriguez describes with heartbreaking honesty his challenges as a husband and a father and his difficulty leaving his criminal past completely behind.

Who would have thought the friendly face of the local fire captain would turn out to be the most prolific arsonist of the 20th century? Burning Addiction follows John Orr, a convicted serial arsonist and mass murderer, who was once a fire captain and arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California. Doug Staubs was his partner in the arson unit. Host Maria Staubs tells the story of her dad’s time with John along with others who knew him.

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley, 13, has been sectioned under the mental health act after attempting suicide. She was spotted climbing the railings on a footbridge that crossed a busy motorway and pulled to safety by...

I was so naïve about the U.S. criminal justice system until my son was arrested on a charge of Drug Induced Homicide and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. The purpose of this podcast is to inform the public about the REAL system of justice operating in the U.S. by using actual prisoners’ (and their families) stories of dealing with drug charges in the US criminal system. --- FYI: This is the first podcast I have made and I just learned that I cannot upload my own transcript to this podcast! I attached a reference list on the podcast Facebook page under 'Files.'

Dr. Carder Stout's clientele includes Oscar-, Golden Globe-, Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy-winners, best-selling authors, and billionaires. He may not be able to share their dark secrets, but for the first time, everyone will know his. At the age of 34, Carder would have gladly pawned the silver spoon he was born choking on for a rock of crack. His downfall was as swift as his privilege was vast - or had he been falling all along?

Richie Stephens is an actor who often plays hardened gangsters and criminals. This is easy for him because he was a drug trafficker, kidnapper, drug addict, alcoholic, and all-around criminal himself. His life twisted and turned in harrowing self-destructive adventures that took him from his native Ireland to San Francisco, Australia, and finally, Los Angeles, coalescing into a classic tale of a man trying to run from his problems by moving to new and more exotic locations—a hard and painful realization that comes at a point in which he’s about to take his own life.

George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations: a home, a family, the pleasure of watching their two sons grow up. But in February 1972, an unthinkable tragedy occurred in the basement of their Nassau County residence, shattering their hopes and dreams forever.