What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse audiobook runs 9.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Shawn Compton (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 81% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Shawn Compton
Shawn Compton narrates 160 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,476 hours in all.
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- Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
About as long, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf
1,084 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
- Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- Psychology 101: How to Understand Yourself and Others
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse is an audiobook by Owen Flanagan: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Shawn Compton, released July 22, 2025, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Disorders & Diseases shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Shawn Compton
- Released
- July 22, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology, Disorders & Diseases
- ISBN
- 9781696617451
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How long is the What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse audiobook?
What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
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Who narrates What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse?
What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse is narrated by Shawn Compton.