Addictions category: 667 books
Mexico Is Not Colombia
Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico’s current security situation, historical case studies...
Treating Co-occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents with Trauma and Substance-Abuse Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Research has shown that, for many teens, trauma can lead to addiction. Now, for the first time ever, two mental health experts offer a powerful, integrative program to effectively treat teens with these co-occurring issues.
Trauma and addiction often present side by side. However, up until...
Making the Choice, Making It Work
Treatment for Opioid Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Making the Choice, Making It Work is an easy-to-read guide for people who are considering treatment for opioid addiction, and for those who are already taking opioid agonist therapy. Families and friends will find it valuable for understanding what their friend or family member is experiencing, and...
Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse
Perspectives on Current Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Here in one volume is a compilation of cutting-edge research in the field of drug abuse research with specific ethnic-minority groups. This book suggests effective ways to conduct research and enhance research opportunities with such groups. Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse includes summaries of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Animal Models for Medications Screening to Treat Addiction, the latest volume in the International Review of Neurobiology series, provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research on the topic. It reviews the current knowledge and understanding in the field, presenting a starting...
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Its Effective Use in Agency Settings
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Re-energize your practice!
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Its Effective Use in Agency Settings chronicles the lessons learned when a substance abuse counseling program switches its theoretical orientation from problem-focused to solution-focused. The book details the technical aspects of the...
by Dr. Steven Kleinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Saving Your Soul examines some of the biggest impacts of therapeutic discourse on our lives and in our society in general. Dr. Steven Kleinbeck looks at the rise of psychological treatment and how it has become the norm and widely accepted throughout all of our social classes. He examines a wide variety...
Addiction Neuroethics
The Ethics of Addiction Neuroscience Research and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Research increasingly suggests that addiction has a genetic and neurobiological basis, but efforts to translate research into effective clinical treatments and social policy needs to be informed by careful ethical analyses of the personal and social implications. Scientists and policy makers alike...
ADHD Nation
Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The groundbreaking account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—and how its unchecked growth has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society. “ADHD Nation should be required reading”...
Portrait of Our Marriage
Memoirs of Love, Family, the Internet, and Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A story created from a dream and 8 women's lives.
PORTRAIT OF OUR MARRIAGE, great read for MEN & WOMEN! Life•Romance•Sex•Fun•Marriage•Family•Obsession•Shocking Revelations.
Nicky led a sheltered life until she met Brett: An adventurous, handsome, smart, and exciting...
Slots
Praying to the God of Chance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A renowned psychiatrist explores the world of slot machine gambling and the almost religious devotion that has turned it into a billion-dollar industry.
This astonishing book reveals that there’s a lot more to playing slot machines—one of America’s fastest growing forms of entertainment—than...
High Stakes
The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
What the explosive growth of legalized gambling means socially, politically, and economically for America.
Forty years ago, casinos were legal in just one state. Today, legalized gambling has morphed into a $119 billion industry established in all but two states. As elected officials are urging...
Drug Addiction in Schools
(International Perspective) Humanistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Drug abuse has become very common among students in the university and schools. Drugs are being misused by students within the university for various reasons. The most common reason being stress. To cope with the competition and ever increasing work load of the program students resort to taking drugs...
by Susan McQuillan M.S. R.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
From Alpha Books and Psychology Today magazine comes expert advice that explains the whys and hows of food obsession and compulsive overeating. Readers will gain the background and tools needed to fashion a plan for happier, healthier living and help themselves out of compulsive overeating-starting...