Addiction category: 1829 books
Passages Through Recovery
An Action Plan for Preventing Relapse
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Passages through Recovery presents an action plan for preventing relapse, one that can help us understand how recovery works and what is needed to move from active addiction to sobriety.
"Abstinence from alcohol and other drugs is only the beginning of sobriety. It's the ticket to get into...
Writers On The Edge
22 Writers Speak About Addiction and Dependency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Writers On The Edge offers a range of essays, memoirs and poetry written by major contemporary authors who bring fresh insight into the dark world of addiction, from drugs and alcohol, to sex, gambling and food. Editors Diana Raab and James Brown have assembled an array of talented and courageous...
Moments of Clarity
Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s New York Times bestselling memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, offered readers a startling, first-hand look at his own addictions to drugs and alcohol, prompting People magazine to write, “Few have written so well about the joy of drugs, and few are as unsparing about...
The Big Fix
Hope After Heroin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good.
With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells...
Addicted
Notes from the Belly of the Beast
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2001
With new material from Susan Cheever, Molly Jong-Fast, and Rick Whitaker. What is this craving that overpowers all else? What is it like to be addicted, and what does it take to get straight or sober? In this new and expanded edition of a widely praised collection, an outstanding roster of courageous...
by Carol Gilreath
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book describes the difficulties a family encounters as they live through a heartrending journey with a son who has chosen a life of addiction. Many families will be able to relate to the scenarios within their own lives. It is written with an interesting twist of nursery rhymes revised to describe...
Smacked
A Harrowing True Story of Addiction and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Smacked is the powerful, uncompromising story of one woman's downward spiral into addiction. Hooked on heroin and crack cocaine, Melinda Ferguson gave up everything she cared about - her children, her marriage, her career - in pursuit of the next fix, the next high. Bold, raw and unashamedly honest,...
by Janice Nargi
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Jan Nargi, a single mother of two, is a registered nurse who worked in enough emergency rooms to know the signs of addiction, but failed to recognize them in her own family. Her son, Tommy, is a heroin addict. He started abusing Oxycontin when he was sixteen and graduated to mainlining heroin by age...
In My Skin
A Memoir of Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
This is the frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman’s descent into addiction and prostitution, and the long arduous struggle to reclaim her life. A shy, bookish college graduate, a nice girl from a solid middle-class home but uncertain of her way in life, Kate Holden tried her first...
Good Things Emotional Healing Journal: Addiction
Effective Strategies to Manage Unwanted Habits and Compulsive Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A companion for people who want to free themselves from unhealthy habits and behaviors.
Physical and emotional stress can make us vulnerable to addictions of all kinds, as we use mood altering substances like drugs and alcohol—or unhealthy habits like overeating, gambling, and compulsive...
It Takes A Family
A Cooperative Approach to Lasting Sobriety
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Counselor and interventionist Debra Jay shows alcoholics, other addicts, and their loved ones how to work collaboratively and as individuals to take on the roles and responsibilities that support long-term sobriety.
Most books on recovery from addiction focus either on the addict or the family....
Sober Mercies
How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Where do you turn for hope when you already have the answer--but the answer isn't working?
As a long-time Christian, Heather Kopp never expected to become an out-of-control alcoholic who kept private stashes of booze all over the place--tucked behind books in her study, zipped into a special...
by Kyczy Hawk
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The koshas are a model of the five layers, or aspects of the human. Similar to "body, mind and spirit", this way of looking at the person divides this idea into five rather than three: body, energy, emotions, wisdom and spirit. Recovering from addictions is difficult: behaviors as hard as...
Blackout Girl
Growing Up and Drying Out in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
A riveting memoir of what happens to a teenage girl whose life is awash in alcohol, drugs, and the trauma of rape.
Jennifer Storm's Blackout Girl is a can't-tear-yourself-away look at teenage addiction and redemption. At age six, Jennifer Storm was stealing sips of her mother's cocktails. By...