Stories of Addiction: A Two Author Event

Stories of Addiction · A Two Author Event

Monday, October 12 · 7:30pm

$10 Florida Series

Cameron Douglas Long Way Home

From the scion of Hollywood royalty--son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas—comes a moving, often shocking memoir detailing Cameron Douglas’s struggle to regain his dignity and humanity after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison. Born into wealth and privilege, his life seems golden...but by the age of thirty, he has become a drug addict, a thief, and a convicted drug dealer. Eventually he will understand his psychological turmoil and successfully reenter society. Douglas has written a raw and unstintingly honest recount of his harrowing, remarkable, and inspiring life story.

On August 1, 2016, Douglas was released early from prison and transferred to a halfway house in New York City. On December 18, 2017, Douglas welcomed a daughter named Lua Izzy Douglas, with his girlfriend, Viviane Thibes.

Dan Peres As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction

As Needed for Pain is a raw, riveting and often wryly funny addiction memoir that explores Peres’s never-before-told story of opioid addiction and the drastic impact it had on his life and career as an editor at W and Details magazines. A gifted writer and shrewd cultural observer, Peres lays bare the extent of his drug use—at one point a 60-pill-a-day habit. His story is a cautionary coming-of-age tale, a glimpse into the rarefied world of wealth, power and influence and a brilliant dissection of a life teetering on the edge of destruction, and what it took to pull back from the brink.

Dan Peres was editor of Details in 2000 and in 2003 and spent nine years at W magazine.