The eleven stories follow the life of a man that goes by the name of Fuckhead and whose experience, with all the ups and downs of addiction, takes us from really funny situations to the darkest reality he finds himself immersed in.

ThatвЂ™s precisely the process that JohnsonвЂ™s short story collection takes the reader into. ThereвЂ™s something about using drugs that ends up trapping users more and more in a never-ending cycle of self-destruction. Most of the time, when drug addiction is taken to fiction, it results in a morbidly moralizing, cautionary tale of why you shouldnвЂ™t take drugs, and to be honest, as I mentioned before, that doesnвЂ™t work at all. So, is there a way to present a story in a more realistic way? The following books are proof that there is. Now, IвЂ™ve always had the impression that no matter how much weвЂ™re told about the dark side of having a drug addiction, we still romanticize it in a way mainly because of the great things that have come out of it (talking about art here). From characters with drug dependency like our favorite detective Sherlock Holmes, who was an avid consumer of cocaine, to classics that were written by authors who were really wasted, thereвЂ™s no doubt that drugs play a big role in our lives. Even though most novels donвЂ™t deal with drugs in an open and direct way, they are highly present even in our favorite classics. When it comes to literature, it's basically the same.

We hear about them every single day on the news, we read about them on the internet, we know what they look like and the effect they have through movies and televisionвЂ¦ To put it briefly, weвЂ™re more than familiar with drugs. WeвЂ™re surrounded by drugs, thereвЂ™s no doubt about it.

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