Addictions category: 667 books
Methamphetamine Addiction
From Basic Science to Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Separating myth from fact, this authoritative work reviews the breadth of current knowledge about methamphetamine addiction and describes the most promising available treatment approaches. Leading experts present state-of-the-art information on the effects of methamphetamine on the brain, body, mental...
Cigarette Crusher
Easy Ways To Eliminate Smoking Addiction And Revitalize Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
No one knows what would happen to you if you don’t quit until the time comes for you to know. You may get cancer in your mouth, in your lungs, you might have a difficult time breathing, fast heartbeat, you might have problems walking across the room. Many things might happen to you if you don't...
Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders
Personality Disorders and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders addresses a complex client population, which presents service providers with significant professional challenges. Underlying personality disorders compromise treatment effectiveness for medical, other psychiatric, or trauma services, as well as the ability...
Changing Self-Destructive Habits
Pathways to Solutions with Couples and Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse—five crippling, self-destructive behaviors—are given a common conceptual framework to help with therapeutic intervention. Matthew Selekman and Mark Beyebach, two...
by Anthony McCandless
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Set in the industrial heart of England in the 1960s, The Marl Hole Kid tells the story of one boy’s struggle to maintain his dignity and compassion growing up in poverty, with a violent, alcoholic, Irish father. A variety of touching, humorous, and outrageous stories illustrate this inspirational...
The Life of the Heroin User
Typical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Heroin is a worldwide scourge and a seemingly intractable one. The Life of the Heroin User: Typical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes is the first book to apply a biographical approach to the lifecycle of the heroin user from birth until death. Chapters address each stage of the user's life, including...
by James Kaine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Sam is a high-functioning alcoholic with a successful career, a happy marriage, and has been drunk for twenty three years. When he finally loses control he must decide whether to be a man, or to desperately ride out the storm to protect his secret life.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Alcohol is the most widely used drug in the world, yet alcoholism remains a serious addiction affecting nearly 20 million Americans. Our current understanding of alcohol's effect on brain structure and related functional damage is being revolutionized by genetic research, basic neuroscience, brain...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
The purpose of this book is to review the basic science and clinical findings concerning maternal substance abuse and the developing nervous system of unborn children. The short-term but vitally significant repercussions of such exposure on biological development, with particular reference to the...
Summary & Study Guide - The Teenage Brain
A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Adolescents Are Not an Alien Species,
Just a Misunderstood One.
The must-read summary of “The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults,” by Frances E. Jensen, MD.
This book explores how the adolescent brain functions in learning,...
Cannabis and Young People
Reviewing the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Cannabis is at the centre of ongoing controversial and often confused debate. Opinions on its potential impact on health are sharply divided: some argue that it poses serious risks to mental health and that adolescent use may lead to psychotic illness in young adulthood, or that it acts as a gateway...
by Brian Johnson, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
How do you find out about addiction? If you are a kid, you usually hear about drugs from other kids. They don’t know much, because they have just started using drugs, or haven’t used them. Parents tend to know little about what is going on at school, and what knowledge they have tends to be a...
by Robert Padgug
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
"...for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one." --Albert Einstein --
Perhaps the “image of God” has nothing to do with how God looks but rather how God deals with the illusion of time. Our intrepid professor...
by Pen
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Losing yourself in excessive daydreaming? Maladaptive Daydreaming is an actual condition undergoing study. Pen shares her own personal experiences and offers helpful suggestions on how to channel and manage the daydreaming habit.Do you experience a loss of time because you spend that time daydreaming?...