Addictions category: 667 books
Addiction in Human Development
Developmental Perspectives on Addiction and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Find fresh perspectives on the treatment of addictions and effective methods for helping recovering alcohol and drug abusers in this valuable book!
Addiction in Human Development provides practical strategies based on theories of human development for working with clients recovering from alcoholism...
by Bruce Carruth, Chelly M Sterman
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Here is a practical and clearly written guide to the use of Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the treatment of alcoholism and other addictions. This comprehensive volume illustrates how the focus of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) on the individual and the family increases the effectiveness of counseling...
Addiction and Change, Second Edition
How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and many who are addicted have been able to recover. This authoritative book, now revised and updated, has given tens of thousands of professionals and students a state-of-the-art framework for understanding the journey...
An Addict's Guide To Freedom
New Ways to understand addicts ad get rid of addictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
An Addict's Guide To Freedom
New Ways to understand addicts ad get rid of addictions
Chapter 1:
Addictive Personalities
Chapter 2:
How People Get Trapped In Addiction
Chapter 3:
In The Mind Of An Addict
Chapter 4:
Taking Responsibility...
21st Century Research on Drugs and Ethnicity
Studies Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Learn about the latest federally supported research on ethnicity and drug use
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has supported professional research into variation among ethnic groups’ use, abuse, and recovery from alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, as well as research into perceptions...
by Baldwin Research Institute, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The Freedom Model for the Family is an approach for families dealing with a loved one who is struggling from addiction. It was written by the authors of The Freedom Model for Addictions and uses the same principles in a way that families can apply them.
Addiction is not a disease, and it's...
Misunderstanding Addiction
Overcoming Myth, Mysticism, and Misdirection in the Addictions Treatment Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
If one tries to imagine the amounts of money that have been spent by federal and state governments, coupled with what has been spent by private citizens in battling substance abuse over the last thirty years, it would amount to an almost unimaginable figure.
There have been many books written...
Creating the Capacity for Attachment
Treating Addictions and the Alienated Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Detached, alienated people, many of them functioning with a pathologically developed false self, barely navigate life's challenges. Our cultural emphasis on autonomy and separateness has led to a retreat from valuing interpersonal, communal dependence and has greatly contributed to a rise in the number...
An Anatomy of Addiction
Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon—showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine.
When Freud and Halsted began...
America Anonymous
Eight Addicts in Search of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
America Anonymous is the unforgettable story of eight men and women from around the country -- including a grandmother, a college student, a bodybuilder, and a housewife -- struggling with addictions. For nearly three years, acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives...
Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery
Twenty True Stories from the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Whether addicted or not, we all have stories to tell
The stories of tragedy and redemption found within Tales of Addiction are not about the well known celebrities you find in the usual tabloids. Rather, these stories are true-grit tales told by people you will never meet but whose words will haunt...
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A neuroscientist's unique and fascinating journey into his own addiction--for readers of Oliver Sacks and Andrew Solomon
Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of...
Hopeful Healing
Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips—Hollywood’s go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education—brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery for the...
Cell #2
Addictions, Loneliness, and hope.
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
When Janet passed away on November 22, 2010, at 48 years young, she left behind a small collection of poetry she had written in 1997, during incarceration at Toronto West Detention Center. It was a window into her struggle as a woman who knew the streets too well, who longed for cocaine, missed her...