Addiction category: 1829 books

Breanna tells the true story of her experiences in prison through her letters to her friend Heath. "God changed my life in prison." This is a story of survival and a quest to make a better life. The letters describe the daily shocking events of prison life involving drugs, sex, utter devastation...

Twelve Step Sponsorship is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors. Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and...

The Forum is an international monthly publication of Al‑Anon Family Groups, a fellowship that offers strength and hope for the friends and families of problem drinkers. In the pages of this magazine, Al‑Anon and Alateen members share their challenges, insights, and progress along their path of...

A friendly, first-ever guide to making the most of your Twelve Step meetings. Mel B's 101 Meeting Starters is a friendly, first-ever guide to making the most of Twelve Step meetings. Anyone who has participated in a Twelve Step meeting knows the benefit of these confidential forums for sharing...

A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs offers the reader far-ranging suggestions, based on concrete experience, for the most common issues and dilemmas that arise when one agrees to become a sponsor in any 12-step program. Seventeen sponsors (with collective recovery time of over 250 years) share...

If you have decided to join Alcoholics Anonymous, first I would like to commend you. It is very difficult to say goodbye to something you have grown so accustomed to. You probably can’t imagine your life without booze (or having one with it for that matter) however it could prove to be the most...

Are you concerned about your child smoking? By the foremost expert in the subject, How to Stop Your Child Smoking offers a clear, practical guide to parents on how to stop their children smoking. This book gives advice on: • How to communicate freely and openly with your children •...

This 3300-word article on Debtors Anonymous originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine.  Debtors Anonymous is a 12-Step self-help program modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous that helps its members recover from past debts, negotiate with and pay off all their creditors on a humane and...

Everyone has temptations in their life & it is often difficult to overcome them or behave in a way that doesn't hurt those closest to us. Learn how to live your life in your own way, but still be kind to others. Discover why incidents happen as they do & what happens, when you choose bad behaviour...

This is a story of my experience of cigarette smoking and the attempts to stop this nasty habit. While it is a personal account of how I managed to quit smoking, it is my opinion that if you apply the methods I used you may very well be successful in giving up this bad habit. It isn't easy to stop smoking but hopefully if you give this a bash it could and should work for you.

You quit after every cigarette, but how to keep yourself from starting again? You are reading these words, which means that you are considering the fact that you need to quit smoking, once and for all. Perhaps you have already tried, perhaps you have only now started thinking about it, in either...

Words have enormous power. They can make us erupt into laughter or bring tears to our eyes. They can influence, inspire, manipulate and shock. They can build, and they can destroy.           Some words have different effects on different people. One such word is humility. It is one of those...

While twelve-step recovery teaches the importance of living one day at a time, recovery is about building a bright future out of the wreckage of the past. That's where planning is valuable for the individual in recovery. This delightful planner reinforces the benefit of doing the footwork, and working toward the results one desires.

The United States is still the land of opportunity, but many of our citizens have been left behindliving in cars, back alleys, abandoned buildings, and shelters provided for people who are homeless.Who are these people who are homeless in America? Blake Barrow answered the call of God to leave...