Addiction category: 1829 books
by Dr. Pinkie Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Ignorance is the worst problem people can ever face. The industrialized and developed countries as well as lesser-privileged areas of the world are crowded with people who feel helpless and intimidated by most things money can do. As I explain in detail in this book, most monetary problems are a kind...
by Tim Krass
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Life In A Bong is the story of one man’s insidious relationship with marijuana addiction and his struggle to finally quit and find sobriety. It takes the reader through four decades of devotion to what is often considered a ‘benign’ drug. Ecstasy turns to darkness as his pot habit shatters his...
Pill Head
The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
This compelling, honest book investigates the growing epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse among today's Generation Rx. Through gripping profiles and heartbreaking confessions, this memoir dares to uncover the reality--the addiction, the withdrawal, and the recovery--of this newest generation...
by Gabor Maté
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Close Encounters With Addiction is a lecture Dr. Gabor Maté gave in Los Angeles in April 2011. He talks about his experience as a physician and how many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three.
My Fair Junkie
A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch...
The Only Life I Could Save
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Katherine Ketcham devoted four decades to researching and writing about addiction—but none of that prepared her for what she would face in her relationship with her own son. The Only Life I Could Save is a raw and moving memoir of heartbreak, healing, and profound transformation. “This book is...
Why Can't I Stop Eating?
Recognizing, Understanding, and Overcoming Food Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
This straight-talking book puts the widespread problem of food addiction into clear perspective and points the way to a life free of the obsession with food.
Why can't I stop eating? If, like millions of others, you often ask yourself this question, you may be addicted to food. The food you...
From Addiction to Recovery
A Therapist's Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
"The story of becoming sober signifies a great deal more than simply not 'picking up' or 'using'. This is a story not only of recovery, but also of what it means to live in sobriety."
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
1st District, Rhode Island
"This book, written by a recovering...
Hopeful Healing
Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips—Hollywood’s go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education—brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery for the...
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,...
by Andrew Seaward
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
ADDICTION: CUNNING, BAFFLING, & POWERFUL
In this gripping debut novel by Andrew Seaward, the lives of three addicts converge following an accidental and horrific death.
Monty Miller, a self-destructive, codependent alcoholic, is wracked by an obsession to drink himself...
Broken
My Story of Addiction and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Candid, shocking, and unforgettable, Broken is a haunting and clear-eyed tale that offers hope for all those wrestling with addiction
Unlike some popular memoirs that have fictionalized and romanticized the degradations of drug addiction, Broken is a true-life tale of recovery that stuns and...
When Enough is Enough
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
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From a nationally recognized addiction specialist featured on the A&E series Intervention, a comprehensive and compassionate guide to confronting a loved one with an addiction.
What do you do when someone you care about is caught in...
Life on the Rocks
Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Addiction and recovery are, at their core, about the meaning of life. Life on the Rocks is the first book to address addiction and recovery from a Western philosophical perspective, offering a powerful set of tools sharpened over millennia. It introduces some of the core concepts and vexing questions...