Advice about drug and alcohol problems Books

If you are prone to anxiety, depression, self-doubt, people-pleasing, or decision-making influenced by fear, or if you want to free yourself of the coping behaviors that worked in a disordered childhood but don't serve you in adulthood, The Kind...

TThis anonymous alcoholic was a seasoned health care professional, an addiction "expert" whose isolation had convinced him there was no help for himself. He had sent thousands of patients to the old mansion at 1311 York Street, a meeting place for...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Angels, Dragons and Fairies; Just an everyday occurrence in the life of Kelly MacNeill, an osteopath based in New Zealand. Originally from the UK, Kelly, a bona fide recipient of a divine calling, takes you on a spiritually guided magical journey;...

Follow the raw and real journey of a young girl as she grows into a woman with unshakable faith while her mom was in the grip of alcoholism. From beloved daughter to scapegoat and verbally abused to separation to caretaker to beloved daughter again...

Break Free From Addiction, Starting Now! There are three things required for an addiction to take a hold of your life: Motivation;Means andOpportunityIn some cases, recovery involves being deprived of the means and opportunity to indulge your vices by...

You'll find the best personal growth information I've gathered over many years, along with my own experiences and outlook on life, in this e-book, which I prepared over several months, so that now, when you're holding my most delicious personal growth...

Ihre Scheidung geben bekannt zum 07.11.2006 DONEGEL SMITH und der Alkohol. 14 Jahre lang hat der Pennbruder auf meiner Couch gelegen und mir mein Leben versaut. HEY DU, auf Deiner Couch hat sich Dein Bruder auch schon niedergelassen? Schmeiß ihn raus...

Bei der vorliegenden Studie handelt es sich um eine Befragung von mehrfachabhängigen Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen, die eine Therapie in niedersächsischen Fachkliniken, Ambulanzen, Adaptions- und Beratungsstellen absolviert haben. Im Zentrum der...

"I am the daughter of the town drunks in a small town in upstate New York and this is my story. Life started off well enough. In the beginning there wasn't even a hint of the chaos that would eventually swallow us all..."So begins the life story of Susan...

Desperate to find respite from her father's verbal abuse, his various affairs, and her step-mother's psychological torment, Gina spent hours doing Jane Fonda's workouts, smoked cigarettes instead of eating food, and became obsessed with her thinness.....

As a twelve-year-old girl, Claudia witnesses the detrimental effects of her father's alcoholism. Redemptive Love traces Claudia's life as she deals with the shame, confusion and pain of growing up surrounded by secrets. She manages day to day by quietly...

Stuck inside a small Highland town, Michael fights off the withdrawal symptoms of a long-term alcohol addiction and memories of a traumatic childhood while doing his best to ignore the aloof apathy of a god he had always been taught to have an unwavering...

Mental Illness doesn't always have to be a preexisting condition from birth, or a disease obtained through genetics. It can be self-induced and or influenced by environmental circumstances through out the duration of a person's life span. This novel is...

You might wonder how an average girl, living a normal life, could find herself in the pits of addiction. I wondered that very thing. How could I have ever allowed myself to be controlled by a pain pill? So I decided to trace my steps, and find out...

This dissertation is an interpretive case study that examines alcohol use by a specific subculture of undergraduates, a college fraternity. Based on nearly three years of investigation using interviews, observation, and document analysis, this study...

This introduction to the Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program is offered to all alcoholic men and women whose "lives have become unmanageable" because of their powerlessness over alcohol. The purpose of this interpretation is to help members...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the...

Hope Morrison gets a rude awakening to how poisoned her life has become when a violent battle unleashes itself between her and her boyfriend, the father of her baby girl, when he comes home late from a night out on the town. Hope has great difficulty...

A principal idéia para a produção deste livro surgiu depois de perceber como as crenças dos outros estavam constantemente me fazendo perder dinheiro e atrasando minha vida no que diz respeito a alcançar meus objetivos,...

First published in 1951, this was the last book by Hermann Levy who died in 1949 before it was finished. Completed by R. P. Lynton, it looks alcohol as a drink, both economically and socially. Divided into 3 parts - in brief: what is the drink problem...

The nature of alcohol problems is very diverse and the strategies adopted for minimising these vary even more. First published in 1983, a detailed review of public health issues in this field at the time opens the book. Followed by an examination of...

First published in 1981, this book reviews the evidence relating to the general effects of alcohol misuse on employment and the special problems involved in certain 'high-risk' industries at the time. A number of international case studies are then...

Gain invaluable insights into the devastating effects of alcoholism and learn practical tactics to overcome it with this guide edited by TB Smithies and written by the esteemed temperance advocate Charles Buxton.This work has been selected by scholars as...

This informative and eye-opening book provides a clear and concise overview of the dangers of heroin use and addiction. Using the latest scientific research, the Foundation for a Drugfree World presents the facts about heroin in a straightforward and...

Are you worried you're drinking too much? Has alcohol become a major part of your life? Do you fear it's affecting your health? Your relationships? Your career?Millions of people are dependent on alcohol to self-medicate trauma, stress,...

Jackie Elliott loves her wine. It makes her feel confident, and helps to relieve her anxiety and worry. Drinking wine is normal. Drinking wine is fun.Until it isn’t.Jackie refuses to believe she has problem, after all she...

Methadone Maintenance Treatment: A Community Planning Guide is a manual offering guidance to communities on how to raise awareness of the benefits of methadone maintenance treatment and how to develop and integrate effective treatment services in their...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

A highly respected physician details his struggle with both treating alcoholics and battling the disease himself.

It's crazy, but alcohol use is really just conditioning. It's the social substance, designed to keep us broke, unmindful - and hooked. Because even when we think we're using IT, it's quite the opposite.We don't give much thought to the ways in which...

After his daughter suggests he find help for his anger and drinking issues, author Taylor Lyen visits a therapist. The therapist persuades him to enter an eight-week early recovery chemical dependency program and a twelve-year follow-up chemical...

An insightful, very readable book. The father of military alcoholism treatment tells about his own life and recovery from alcoholism, and describes how he set up the first officially sanctioned military treatment programs for alcoholics in the 1940s and...

Far too little is known about alcoholism and recovery from it. Binge drinking and a myriad other related alcohol problems are rampant. While a few of us know the differences between alcoholism and alcohol abuse, we ...

Explore the devastating impact of addiction with this harrowing exposé by Lewis Charles Levin. Drawing on personal experience and rigorous research, Levin offers a searing indictment of alcohol and its effects on individuals, families, and society as a...

Dieses umfangreiche Werk beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Alkoholismus und bietet in über 100 Bändchen eine Fülle von Informationen zu diesem Thema. Es richtet sich gleichermaßen an Betroffene, Angehörige und Fachleute und ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur...

First published in 1869, The Science Temperance Text-Book is a seminal work on the science of alcoholism and the temperance movement. The book explores the physical, mental, and social effects of alcohol consumption, drawing on the latest scientific...

This book explores the toxic effects of alcohol and offers preventative measures for alcoholism. It covers the physiological effects of alcohol on the body, as well as societal and cultural attitudes towards drinking.This work has been selected by...

The true life stories of four people recovering from addiction, intermingled with their search for a higher power, helped along the way by a lovable dog named Rosie. Addiction does not discriminate, evidenced in the characters who battle addiction in...

Choose The Reality Where You've Never Been AddictedQuantum Sobriety is the next generation of finding freedom in sobrietyUnderpinned by meditation, Buddhism and quantum physics yet written in a ‘girl-next-door’ non-academic...