{"product_id":"hooked-addiction-and-the-long-road-to-recovery-9781472282569b","title":"Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his generation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut for thirty years Paul Merson has also been an addict. Alcohol, drugs, gambling: a desperately unenviable cocktail of addictions and depression which has plagued his entire adult life and driven him to the verge of suicide. 'I've come to realise that I'm powerless over alcohol ... I'm an alcoholic. My drinking and gambling have left a lot of wreckage.'  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil recently the drinking and gambling were still raging. 'I wanted to kill myself. I couldn't go on anymore. I just couldn't see a way out.' Then something clicked. 'One day, I was walking home from the pub late on a Sunday evening, and I thought to myself: \u003ci\u003eI've had enough of feeling like this, every day of my life\u003c\/i\u003e. I rang up Alcoholics Anonymous the next day, and since then I haven't had a drink.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHooked \u003c\/i\u003eis Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction, searingly charting his  journey over three decades. It is absolutely unflinching in detailing his emotional and psychological troughs and in raking over the painful embers of an adult life blighted by such debilitating issues. \u003ci\u003eHooked \u003c\/i\u003ewill kick-start a crucial national conversation about addiction, depression and the damage they wreak.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42994353340496,"sku":"9781472282569B","price":15.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/hooked-addiction-and-the-long-road-to-recovery-9781472282569b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}