The extraordinary true story of a young man's descent into crystal meth addiction and his struggle to get clean
James Salant has been clean since September 2003. After his release from a court-mandated stay at a rehabilitation programme he has lived in New Jersey, working as office manager an educational consulting firm which manages an academy for students who are experiencing difficulties, and as a floor trainer at a health club in Princeton.
If prose were a mind-altering substance, James Salant would be your
neighbourhood pusher. Lord knows, the man will make an addict of
you
*Koren Zailckas, author of SMASHED: GROWING UP A DRUNK GIRL*
Normally I hate to tell anyone what to do, or what to think, or
read. But I honestly believe every parent should read this book.
And every teenager on the verge of a drug trip should read it. And
everyone else, too. It's that good, that important
*Dava Sobel, author of LONGITUDE*
Leaving Dirty Jersey is a harrowing, pitiful account of one guy's
demise into full scale addiction and insanity ... Up there with Jim
Carroll's The Basketball Diaries for drug rites of passage
books
*Blowback Magazine*
Like watching a car crash, the gruesome details - drug deals gone
wrong, violence and seedy motels - make the book compulsive
reading
*Big Issue*
Completely addictive ... brilliant
*Word Magazine*
Salant's gritty portrayal of his descent from all-American college
boy to rehab-skiving hood rat hits an untapped vein, and he
delivers a very readable hit
*thelondonpaper*
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