Addictions category: 667 books
by SmartReads
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
There are millions of people today suffering from alcoholism but most don't seek help because of the stigma associated with the disease. They also don't know who to turn to for help.How to Control Alcoholism is a book meant to help you identify, control and overcome alcoholism. By...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Are you a smoker, and you finally want to quit smoking? Well, thousands of people successfully quit smoking everyday, and it's definitely possible.
This ebook compiles tons of tips from REAL ex-smokers around the world, sharing their tips and experience of quitting cigarette smoking.
Read...
You Need Help!
A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
If you feel that a friend or loved one has a problem and needs professional help, this step-by-step guide will give you the tools to approach, engage, and support him or her.
Just about everyone knows a relative, friend, or coworker who is exhibiting signs of emotional or behavioral turmoil....
I'm Just Happy to Be Here
A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood."
--POPSUGAR
"By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir."
--Kirkus
"Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes...
Speed-Speed-Speedfreak
A Fast History of Amphetamine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Elvis Presley, the Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, the Beatles, Judy Garland, Hank Williams, the Manson Family, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash, JFK, and Adolf Hitler. All of the above were, at one time or another, to put it bluntly, speedfreaks.
Speed-Speed-Speedfreak traces...
Dead Drunk
Saving myself from alcoholism in a Thai monastery
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Dead Drunk is the moving and powerful story of a teenager who lost himself to alcohol addiction after the breakdown of his parents' marriage. Paul Garrigan has written an honest (and often darkly humorous) account of his alcoholism.
His adventures took him from the quiet suburbs...
by Kimball Pier
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
A hauntingly beautiful memoir of humor, grace, gratitude, and failed rescuesKilling Penelope is a true story about a girl’s devotion to her mother, Penelope, a wild and eccentric woman who never intended to have a child, and to her father, Gardiner, a Harvard-educated physician whom the child...
Crystal Death
North America's Most Dangerous Drug
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
A hard-hitting look at the most dangerous illegal drug in North America. A fact-based account featuring up to the minute interviews and life stories from users, dealers and doctors, with a Canadian perspective on the problem and its potential solutions. An important book for teachers, parents and...
by R.W. Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
How does an intelligent, beautiful young woman come to this end?
Kassi Visage-Lowe was born Kassi Lee Schlangen in Spokane, Washington, January 9, 1959. She was happy and excited about life, a little girl with promise for the future. Kassi was talented; she loved to sing and draw and express...
The Last Addiction
Own Your Desire, Live Beyond Recovery, Find Lasting Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
In an age of tell-all addiction memoirs and reality television programs, we gulp down the stories of others in the hope that we, too, can be overcomers–even as we continue to love a person, substance, activity, or ideology too much.
As Sharon Hersh writes, “We all suffer from the same condition.”...
The Recovery-Minded Church
Loving and Ministering to People With Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The Recovery-Minded Church
Lord Fear
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Lucas Mann was only thirteen years old when his brother Josh—charismatic and ambitious, funny and sadistic, violent and vulnerable—died of a heroin overdose. Although his brief life is ultimately unknowable, Josh is both a presence and an absence in the author’s life that will not remain unclaimed....
by Erma Cárdenas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 23, 2015
La doctora Ángeles Elizárraga, una psiquiatra especialista en problemas de adicción, no duda en utilizar toda su influencia para hacerse cargo de un caso que removerá su vida en lo más profundo. Su paciente, doña Rosa, debe recibir tratamiento por su alcoholismo. La hija de esta, Vicky, se ha...
by Franklin Díaz Lárez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Un método sencillo, a la vez que eficaz, para dejar de fumar.
Con él podrás programar tu cerebro no solo para abandonar definitivamente el hábito del tabaquismo, sino también para alcanzar todas las metas y objetivos que te propongas a partir de ahora.
Contiene un conjunto de técnicas y procedimientos...