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Authors: Claudia Christian,Morgan Grant Buchanan
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #General, #Entertainment & Performing Arts, #Rich & Famous, #Personal Memoirs
Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction (45 page)
Thanks also to Neil Gaiman, Kevin Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Shari Shattuck, and Walter Koenig for reading this book and offering their kind words of support, and to David Honl for his love, friendship, and massive talent.
And to Morgan . . . here’s to many more years of collaboration. You are a huge talent with an enormous heart. I don’t know how we found each other but I am utterly chuffed that the universe managed to arrange it.
Morgan Grant Buchanan
FROM MORGAN GRANT BUCHANAN: Love and thanks to my wife, Catherine, and sons, Calum and Liam, for their patience and support while I scheduled interviews and phone conferences at all hours from Australia to work on this book.
Sincere thanks to my writing collaborator and friend, Claudia Christian, for asking me to help share her amazing life story.
We’d both like to thank our agent David Fugate at LaunchBooks and the team at BenBella Books for their support and professionalism.
NOTES
1
“Nearly one-fifth of women (18 percent) reported experiencing a completed or attempted rape at some time in their lives.” (National Institute of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey,” November 1998.)
2
Babylon 5
, Season 4, Episode 19, “Between the Darkness and the Light.”
3
EXTRA Online
’s live interview with J. Michael Straczynski, executive producer and creator of
Babylon 5,
and actress Claudia Christian, who plays Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova on the show. Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc., all rights reserved.
4
Computer-generated imagery, the technique used by filmmakers to produce lifelike digital animation.
5
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html
.
6
www.28weekrecovery.com/index_files/Page389.htm.
7
Gambling, high-risk compulsive behavior, and several other destructive behaviors are thought to be mediated via the opioid or endorphinergic system.
8
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, World Health Organization.
9
50 mg is standard, but sometimes, according to reports from readers of
The Cure for Alcoholism
on their Internet forum
www.thesinclairmethod.com
, a dose of 75 mg one hour before a drinking session in a twenty-four-hour period is required.
10
John H. Krystal, MD, et al., “Naltrexone in the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence,”
New England Journal of Medicine
, December 13, 2001. This study of 627 alcoholics in Veterans Affairs hospitals proved that naltrexone is ineffective when combined with abstinence.
11
Nitya Jayaram-Lindström et al., “An Open Clinical Trial of Naltrexone for Amphetamine Dependence: Compliance and Tolerability,”
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
(59 (3): 167–171, 2005).
12
Nitya Jayaram-Lindström et al., “Naltrexone for the Treatment of Amphetamine Dependence: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial” (2007, submitted).
13
Nitya Jayaram-Lindström, “Evaluation of Naltrexone as a Treatment for Amphetamine Dependence,” a dissertation from Karolinska University Hospital, presented Dec. 18, 2007. After tests with volunteers and a compliance test with amphetamine addicts, a twelve-week randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial showed that naltrexone eventually reduced addicts’ craving and produced fewer urine positives for amphetamine.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Under the Influence
Chapter 4: Bastards and Billionaires
Chapter 6: Blood, Death, and Taxes
Chapter 7: The Right Hand of Vengeance
Chapter 10: The Monster’s Gambit
Chapter 11: White Buffalo Medicine
Chapter 12: The Fall of Babylon
Chapter 13: (Last) Resort Rehab