Addiction category: 1829 books

This book is Bert Pluymen's story of struggle and triumph over alcohol addiction. It also contains insightful, witty, uplifting, and wryly humorous stories of the many people Pluymen met who were also searching for sobriety. This is an informative book that will shed new light on how alcohol abuse can ruin people's lives--even if they thought it could never happen to them.

This is a book of stories. But, it is not a traditional recovery story book. The ancient rabbis used a method of teaching they called “stringing pearls”. This involved telling a series of seemingly unrelated stories which all explained a different aspect of the same topic. Like holding a diamond...

Sober Spring tells the story of a familys struggle with the pain and uncertainties of alcoholism and also the hope and joy of recovery. The book tells the story of what can happen when the members of the family, sometimes even starting with the youngest members, are willing to confront the truth in...

Maureen Cavanagh’s gripping memoir If You Love Me is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles—and ultimately reckons with—substance use disorder. Fast-paced and heartwarming, devastating and redemptive, Maureen’s...

What makes one person addicted to drugs and alcohol and another seemingly immune to the temptation? What can family and friends do to help the addicted, or can they do anything? Using interviews with families and addicts now in recovery, psychologist and addictions specialist Dr. James M. Strawbridge...

L’alcool tue, tous les ans, en France, infiniment plus que la route, le sida et les drogues illicites réunis. L’addiction à l’alcool, l’alcoolodépendance, peut souvent très bien se soigner à partir du moment où on comprend mieux comment elle...

Unlike the memoir of a famous person, my story lives with the millions of baby boomers who passed me a joint and a beer in college and again at the corporate picnic. Before the Woodstock weekend in 1969, I graduated from college and married the mother of our love child, began training for a computer...

Le guide qui, pour le prix d’un café parisien, peut vous faire économiser jusqu’à 1500 € par an ! Savez-vous que certains fumeurs, dépendants depuis des années, arrêtent du jour au lendemain ? « Impossible, voyons »… on a tant dit qu’arrêter était long et contraignant. Tant...

Sempre più persone utilizzano e dipendono da questo nuovo mezzo di comunicazione, e questo processo sta producendo dei fenomeni patologici che si manifestano con una sintomatologia simile a quella che osserviamo in soggetti dipendenti da sostanze psicoattive. Infatti, esiste una vera e propria psicopatologia denominata Internet Addiction Disorder (I.A.D.), dovuta all’abuso di Internet.

Un guide pour vous aider à mieux accompagner votre proche Les membres de l’entourage d’un proche ayant une dépendance à l’alcool ou aux drogues ont tendance à s’oublier et à s’épuiser dans une relation devenue toxique. Ils vivent souvent une situation dramatique qui nécessite attention...

Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way. She wondered whether she had a problem, but so many...

Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. The...

With sharp wit, self-deprecating humor, and penetrating honesty, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff turns a keen eye on his life with the mysterious, maddening, much-loved man of whom he writes, “for the first eight years of my life I seem to have believed he was the product of my imagination.” Itzkoff’s...

This story is for drinkers who have tried the successful routes to sobriety of others and failed, but have enough spark left to consider something else -- a third or alternative way that worked for me. Neither professional therapy nor Alcoholics Anonymous as singular routes did the job for me. Nothing...