Addictions category: 667 books
Broken
My Story of Addiction and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Candid, shocking, and unforgettable, Broken is a haunting and clear-eyed tale that offers hope for all those wrestling with addiction
Unlike some popular memoirs that have fictionalized and romanticized the degradations of drug addiction, Broken is a true-life tale of recovery that stuns and...
The Cure for Alcoholism
The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Finally, there is a cure for alcoholism. This is the first step.
Featuring new and updated information and studies, including an introduction by actress Claudia Christian, the second edition of The Cure for Alcoholism delivers exactly what millions of alcoholics and families of alcoholics have...
by Claude M. Steiner, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
The most lucid account of the patterns of problem drinkers ever set down in a book!
Drawing on soundly tested theories of transactional behavior, Dr. Steiner describes the three distinct types of alcoholics -- Drunk and Proud, Lush and Wino -- and their games, scripts and rackets: Debtor......
No More Letting Go
The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Detachment” has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict’s loved ones has been to let the addict “hit bottom” before intervening. Now intervention specialist Debra Jay challenges this belief and offers...
Thinking Simply About Addiction
A Handbook for Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
A profound yet practical guide to understanding addiction and recovery from an authority on the subject.
No social problem today causes greater confusion than addiction. Whatever form it takes — alcohol, heroin, cocaine, nicotine, etc. — it tears apart homes and relationships, destroys...
Controlling Your Drinking, Second Edition
Tools to Make Moderation Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Interested in cutting down on your drinking without giving it up altogether? This encouraging, science-based book can help make that goal a reality. Distinguished clinician-researchers William R. Miller and Ricardo F. Muñoz have spent more than 40 years studying whether moderation works, who it works...
Dr. Bob and Bill W. Speak
AA's Cofounders Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Learn about the luminaries behind one of the greatest social movements of our time through the never-before-published recordings, letters, and stories found in this intimate multimedia retrospective.
Learn about the luminaries behind one of the greatest social movements of our time through...
The Trip to Echo Spring
On Writers and Drinking
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEM?
In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol...
Words without Walls
Writers on Addiction, Violence, and Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need. Halfway houses, hospitals, and shelters are all fertile ground for healing through the imagination and can often mean the difference for inmates and patients between...
by William Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Being a descendant of Charles Darwin might not make William Pryor a celebrity but his memoir ought to. Survival of the Coolest is a deep read about a man with a legacy for greatness who instead dives into drug addiction and comes up to tell about it. Do yourself a favour put down the celeb bios and read this real life account of a real cool life.
Farther and Wilder
The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do with...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
In this book Bessel examines the ways that trauma can affect people and how they can recover from past dramatic events. When a person experiences trauma it will change the wiring in their brain and this will cause a change in the way that a person views their life and everyday situations. Trauma has...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Are you suffering from a strange disease, that keep pulling your hair out? Well, it's called trichotillomania, and you are not alone.
This ebook compiles tons of tips from REAL trichotillomania sufferers, sharing their stories and more importantly, how to cure it.
Read through this...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Are you or your love ones suffering from excessive alcohol drinking? Unable to control your drinking habits, and you know it's turning into a disaster soon? This ebook can help you!
This ebook compiles tons of tips from REAL drinkers. Some have lost their family and love ones, while the rest...