Advice about drug and alcohol problems Books

Father Ed is the first biography of Father Edward Dowling, SJ, whose guidance transformed Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson's life and deepened the spirituality of the twelve-step movement. Bill Wilson's legacy is one of the greatest of any...

There is a crisis in the world today, and that is the crisis of addiction. It is not new nor even extraordinary, but common and universal in the history of mankind.The world is always looking for answers—for reasons and solutions to all of our...

Eager to break the cycle of bad choices, cravings, and compulsions? Discover the key to leaving any addiction behind and embracing freedom.Struggling to resist your dependency? Are you riddled with guilt about sneaking around trying to hide your habit?...

Asked and Answered is the story of one who attained the unfathomable in a live-fast, die-young life, only to succumb to the ravages of addiction. The story is a brutally honest personal recollection of riches to rags and high-stakes litigation to the...

The book Still Trudging is a follow-up of the book I Trudged and is a continuation of stories describing the author's life going from a path of almost certain death to a life without complaints or regrets. Changing the word trudged to trudging implies...

Mission Impossible Counseling (MIC) was founded by Mr. Lendell L Jones a Licensed Alcohol Drug Addiction Counselor (LADAC) for the state of New Mexico on 10/1/2005 with primary emphasis on providing exceptional substance abuse counseling, training,...

Sober from Sin is a poignant memoir detailing the journey of a former law enforcement veteran from the depths of alcoholism to the embrace of sobriety, entwined with a search for spiritual and personal redemption. Reflecting on a two-decade career and...

Big Sober Energy is a book about how to harness and direct energy to create an extraordinary life that's worth staying sober for. Part memoir, part spiritual development guide, this book offers eleven concrete practices designed to help you rewrite...

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In the lively embroidery of life as a youngster, there exists a domain frequently disregarded - a multifaceted scene of dismissed prompts that say a lot about the unheard longings of kids. Inside the buzzing about of day to day existence, it is not...

Parenting a child with substance abuse issues is daunting. Patty Fallone knows this firsthand from witnessing her own son's battle with addiction and seeing the toll it took on her entire family. She has also learned that when parents work their own...

From the cold, lonely streets of 1970s Britain to the sun-soaked opulence of Malibu in the 1980s, Janine's life is fraught with dangerous exploits-outrunning the law, sordid relationships, and a drive to self-destruct. Abused and neglected by her once...

The Addiction Recovery Workbook provides the structured and proven frameworks that you need to follow to achieve lasting results. This guide:Explains the science behind addiction, how it affects the brain, and how to control it.Outlines usual symptoms of...

4/20 A Mother's Fight to Survive portrays a mother's struggle with abusive behaviors fueled by addiction. Thanks to her resilience, the author shatters the belief that women are supposed to suffer through a twisted Cinderella narrative. This story...

"It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself."When you engage in self-care, it is truly self-care. This means you only rely on yourself, and nobody else, to make sure...

Healing Shadows is a powerful and deeply moving memoir that takes readers on a journey through one man's life, marked by trauma, resilience, and ultimately, healing. Beginning in the early 1960s, this compelling narrative reveals the harsh realities of...

How to recover from your addiction and take your life backIs it starting to seem like you may never be able to beat your addiction?Are you tired of lying and hurting your loved ones?Do you want your family back in your life?If you answered yes to any of...

What one does regularly with little conscious effort becomes a habit?  A multitude of these habits combines and shapes our personality and our character.The recent few months forced many of us to change the way we have been living our life...

In our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society...

Out of the maelstrom of a daughter's heroin addiction come these gripping poems of love and powerlessness, tenacity and surrender, brokenness and resilience. In The Heroin Addict's Mother, Miriam Greenspan, eminent psychologist and author of the...

What Richard Clark presents in The Addiction Recovery Handbook: Understanding Addiction and Culture is long overdue. Since 1939, Bill Wilson's important and influential books, Alcoholics Anonymous and AA's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, have helped...

Esta obra trata sobre la situación mundial del consumo de drogas, tanto en Europa, Estados Unidos, México y, en particular, el estado de Morelos. Define conceptos básicos de la clínica diagnóstica del consumo de drogas como adicción, tolerancia, síndrome...

In 2012, Lori L. Gottula was a wife, mom, grandma, successful business owner, community leader-and opiate addict. She became dependent upon painkillers because of a chronic back condition, but is proof that opioid addiction can happen to anyone, even...

"Black AAtlanta: Towards a Whole Healing Process" attempts to take a more in-depth look at some of the issues not addressed, or loosely addressed in the recovery process. The expectation is that the reader is able to identify with the need to explore...

Be ResilientOne of the world's leading stress experts, Dr. Pete Sulack sees thousands of patients each month in his Knoxville, Tennessee, chiropractic clinic and is known around the world for his practical and effective approach to health.In Be...

A compelling tale of a mother's struggle to save her son, recovery center secrets, loss, death, and grief. She wanted him to get well but was confronted with a system more focused on profit than recovery. Laura Cole felt like a failure. Watching her...

"One day, I find a bottle of Smirnoff under the kitchen sink. I have never seen anyone drink it, but I know it is liquor. I take a giant swig. Holy burning! I feel like my throat is torched. It takes what seems like forever to stop stinging. When it...

Preservation Of Sanity by C.L. Black

Is alcoholism a genetic condition?Or does the alcoholic turn to alcohol as a favorite way to cope with fears, anger and guilt, because they would rather see themselves suffer from the ill-effects of this coping mechanism, than to see others feel pain?And...

The biggest lie we tell ourselves when we don't reach a goal or obtain something we want in life is to say that we "self-sabotage."Self-Sabotage implies we know ourselves. Identity Sabotage is more appropriate. The true identity of our spiritual being...

"Dies ist eine ganz persönliche Erzählung von sehr persönlichen Umständen. Es ist kein Vortrag über Mäßigkeit, kein Vortrag über die erschütternden Leiden infolge eines schrecklichen Schicksals oder aber eine Warnung - oder irgendetwas anderes als eine...

"I've heard it said that for alcoholics like me, there are only four possibilities: prison, the psychiatric ward, death or sobriety. I didn't go to jail, but did end up at the police station, in a drunk tank. The psychiatric hospital? I was there for a...

J'ai entendu dire que pour les malades alcooliques comme moi, il n'y avait que quatre issues possibles : la prison, l'hôpital psychiatrique, la mort ou l'abstinence. Je n'ai pas connu la prison, mais le commissariat de...

"Look after yourself. Look after each other." In 1986, Dr. I. Michael Kaufmann asked for help with his addiction to opiates. That life-changing call altered the course of his medical career, ultimately leading him to help thousands of others...

What if there was a horrible fire-breathing “drug dragon” destroying your family, and threatening you, as well? What if there was something you could do to help yourself— and other kids whose lives have been torn apart by this dragon?...

The Opiate Toolkit is for educational public health purposes in hopes of eradicating the opiate epidemic and eliminate suffering and loss of life.

Part recovery journal, part travel log, Recovery Road Trip follows one woman's solo road trip through America after her alcoholic father's death. Through chance encounters, she creates inspiration for those seeking to overcome addiction and find their...

When Robin Monson-Dupuis, psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor, loses her son to a heroin overdose after an eight-year journey trying to help him stay alive, it shatters everything in her world. She finds her beliefs tested: her role as a...

If you can recognize your guilt, you can use it for self-improvementAsk yourself:Do you want to learn how to forgive yourself? Do you want to correct mistakes instead of hiding them?Do you become angry very quickly? (over-reacting)Do you get caught up in...

Have you ever wondered what really happens in rehab?? Welcome to My World was written by psychotherapist and chemical dependency counselor, Mary Crocker Cook, to answer the question, “What really happens in rehab?”...

This book is designed to help recovering persons (alcoholics/addicts) succeed in making the transition to a lifetime of sobriety. This book will help people who have just begun walking down the path of recovery and are now confronting the challenge of...