Substance Abuse category: 962 books
BINGE CRAZY
A Psychotherapist's Memoir of Food Addiction, Mental Illness, Obesity and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
In Binge Crazy, therapist Natalie Gold discloses her lived experience to reveal how binge eating disorder and food addiction develops, how it impacts the individual and their loved ones, and the complex road to recovery. From a Toronto mental hospital to a talk show in London, England, she chronicles...
Step Up
Unpacking Steps 1-3 with Someone Who's Been There
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Twelve Step programs can sometimes be intimidating. Before you walk into that meeting, you want to know the scoop and what it’s really like to work a Twelve Step recovery program. Michael Graubart is here to tell you.
If you’re ready to take the first steps in a new direction, you don’t...
by D. Steven Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
No Time for Commas is an alcoholic story for the vigilant reader. Forged in simplicity and fired with metaphor, it examines both the nature and the heart of addiction. It is nostalgic and personal, yet reflective, glued with shared human feelings and timeless principles. It is, plainly stated, about...
The Garden Keys - 22 Keys of Restoration
Volume 1 - the Beginning to Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Take an in-depth look at the commercial sex industry in an authentic, real-life journey out of the depths of grief, addiction and the business of exploitation. This first-hand account of overcoming, written by a licensed drug and alcohol counselor, is a story of restoration that gives practical tools...
C'est Assez!
Comment arrêter de boire ou réduire votre consommation d’alcool
Language: French
Release Date: March 15, 2013
p>Un grand nombre de personnes savent que leur consommation d’alcool est problématique bien avant d’être prêtes à demander de l’aide. Cette reconnaissance du problème peut être une première étape importante en vue d’arrêter de boire ou de réduire sa consommation d’alcool. Toutefois,...
by Mauro Serio
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Smettere di fumare è facile. Diventare una persona 'non fumatrice', non un 'ex fumatore' sempre legato alle sue convinzioni da fumatore, ma diventare una persona come milioni di persone al mondo che non hanno mai fumato e vivono la loro vita senza fumare, è altrettanto facile. Per farlo è sufficiente...
by Marck A. Romero
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
This non-fiction work takes the reader inside the mind of a man in the midst of addiction. These accounts of various drug and alcohol induced episodes are in the form of poetry and short memoirs. Many of these writings are quite vulgar and wildly “to the point” leaving caution to the reader. Amidst...
Sharp
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
David Fitzpatrick’s Sharp is an extraordinary memoir—a fascinating, disturbing look into the mind of a man who, in his early 20s, began cutting himself due to a severe mental illness. A beautifully written treatment of a powerful subject, Fitzpatrick—whose symptoms included extreme depression...
by LeRon Barton
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Straight Dope is book that asks the simple question – why are drugs so entrenched in America's society. Instead of doing the same ol' rigamarole song and dance and interviewing talking heads and experts, Straight Dope gets to the heart of the matter and talks to the people at ground zero – the...
by David Carroll Christopher Hunnicutt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Tangled Thoughts is an introduction, of sorts, to the life of Texas author David Hunnicutt. The book is a fun, easy read that challenges the reader to look deeply at life, and to closely examine their own hearts and minds. The “thoughts” and proses written within the work range from sweet to bittersweet...
Happy Hours
Alcohol in a Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Did You Know
Female alcoholics are twice as likely to die as male alcoholics in the same age group
Women metabolize alcohol differently from men, more quickly developing such physical complications as liver disease, high blood pressure, and hepatitis.
A female alcoholic is more likely to suffer from...
Hijacking the Brain
How Drug and Alcohol Addiction Hijacks Our Brains the Science Behind Twelve-Step Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Hijacking the Brain provides the first-ever scientific explanation for the success of Twelve-Step programs. Hijacking the Brain examines data provided by recent rapid growth in the fields of neuroscience, neuroimaging, psychology, sociobiology and interpersonal neurobiology that have given us new,...
The Joey Song
A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Writing is compelling, vital, emotional; engages the reader.
Author is telegenic and promotable.
Approximately 22 million adults are classified with dependence or abuse according to US government data; only a small portion are in treatment. Market is huge as addiction is a family disease...
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...