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The Fantastic Lodge: The Shocking Autobiography of a Girl Addict

by Helen MacGill Hughes

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Based on taped interviews, posthumously published in 1961, this is a classic in the clinical literature of addiction as an account of a middle-class young woman’s descent into the hell of heroin in the 1950s.

Paperback , 206 pages

Published September 1964 by Monarch Books

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