More, Now, Again

It had reached the point where she couldn't go more than five minutes without grinding up a pill and snorting it. Despite the success of her memoir, Prozac Nation — and the fame and accolades that came with it — nothing had changed inside Elizabeth Wurtzel. She saw herself as a terrible failure. She couldn't maintain relationships. She was fired from every job she held. Exhausted from trying to make sense of a world she saw as increasingly phony, she left New York for Florida. But not before securing from her psychiatrist a prescription for Ritalin, a drug prescribed for hyperactivity in children. This memoir is about the search for happiness, depravity, and the will to survive even the most breathtaking self-abuse.