Unhooked : the rehab of a London call girl

Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash, Katie, the heroine of Clare Gee's bestselling __Hooked__, can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself. She has messed up badly and thrown everything away. Mentally, she is an anxious wreck and physically she is in pieces. Yet she is terrified of who she will become without her vices. She has to do something, though, and her choices are get help or die. She leaves London and admits herself to a residential rehab centre for three months. In __Unhooked__, reformed addict Clare Gee draws on her own experiences of cocaine addiction, alcoholism and prostitution in telling a moving story of a young woman battling through hell to create a sober life for herself. There are threats of expulsion from rehab and relapses, but through dedication and honesty, Katie begins the long journey to becoming clean and finding peace of mind. After spending 12 years banging sniff up her snout Clare Gee can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself. She has to get away from London, and admits herself into a military-style residential drug rehab for three months. Mentally, she is an anxious wreck. Her parents haven't talked to her for more than two years and her friends are increasingly fed up with her erratic behaviour. Physically, too, she is in pieces. Her face is bloated, her body skinny, her skin spotty, and she hasn't had a period for four years. Yet she is terrified of who she will become without her vices. She has to do something, though, and her choice is rehab or death. In Unhooked, Clare Gee documents how she finally recovered from addiction and battled through a very real hell to create a sober and sustainable life for herself, even when every cell in her body was screaming at her to go back to what she knew. There are threats of expulsion from rehab and relapses, but through dedication and a simple programme, she begins the long journey to becoming clean, sober and coherent - at last, a productive member of society. A frank, semi-fictionalized account of an alcoholic, cocaine-addicted hooker's experiences in a residential drug rehabilitation facility Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash, Katie, the heroine of Hooked , can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself. She has messed up badly and thrown everything away. Mentally, she is an anxious wreck, and physically she is in piecesyet she is terrified of who she will become without her vices. She has to do something, though, and her choices are get help or die. She leaves London and admits herself to a residential rehab center for three months. Reformed addict Clare Gee draws on her own experiences of cocaine addiction, alcoholism,and prostitution in telling a moving story of a young woman battling through hell to create a sober life for herself. There are threats of expulsion from rehab and relapses, but through dedication and honesty, Katie begins the long journey to becoming clean and finding peace of mind.