Addictions category: 667 books
All Bets Are Off
Losers, Liars, and Recovery from Gambling Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Arnie Wexler's life as a gambler began on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, flipping cards, shooting marbles, and playing pinball machines. At age fourteen he found the racetrack, a bookie, and started playing the stock market. His obsession with gambling accelerated until a fateful day in 1968 when...
Alcohol
The World's Favorite Drug
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Alcohol can be an item of diet, a medicine, sometimes an element in religious ritual. It is a valued object for the connoisseur, a traded commodity and a symbol of national pride (wine for instance in France, whisky in Scotland). The range of social and medical problems associated with alcohol and...
Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents
Risk Factors, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This is the first book to thoroughly examine how early and easy access to the Internet and digital technologies impacts children and adolescents. Experts in the field examine the research that shows the social, cognitive, developmental, and academic problems that can result when children spend excessive...
Women and Addiction
A Comprehensive Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
For many years, addiction research focused almost exclusively on men. Yet scientific awareness of sex and gender differences in substance use disorders has grown tremendously in recent decades. This volume brings together leading authorities to review the state of the science and identify key directions...
by Alexander MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
The “Dark Night of the Soul” was the title of a poem written by St John of the Cross in the 16th century. Although the poem itself seems cryptic and esoteric, the title has been co-opted into the vernacular to mean a period of desolation and despair, when hope is lost to uncertainty and confusion.
In...
Chemical Dependency Counseling
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The best-selling Chemical Dependency Counseling: A Practical Guide provides counselors and front-line mental health professionals with the information and skills they need to use evidence-based treatments, including motivational enhancement, cognitive behavioral therapy, skills training, medication,...
Coming Clean
Diary of a painkiller addict
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
'A brave, heartfelt and extraordinary book' Corinne Sweet, author of Overcoming Addiction, psychologist and broadcaster
What if the drugs that were meant to cure you slowly started to kill you?
After falling dangerously ill with acute-on-chronic pancreatitis, Cathryn Kemp left hospital...
HEROIN God's Own Medicine
The Horror of Heroin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Two junkies are shivering and trembling with winter cold and heroin withdrawal, in their southside Chicago shooting gallery. It was formerly a slaughterhouse, where many animals entered, all with hope and the desire to live, but no mercy was ever shown, no not to even one, If you listen...
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse
Pharmacological, Developmental, and Clinical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Substance Abusing Latinos
Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Discover the role culture, family, and environment have in the prevention of Latino substance abuse
Information about the substance abuse behaviors among Latino populations has been limited. Substance Abusing Latinos: Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment fills this void...
by Louise Rowlinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Practical Support For Achieving A Hangover Free Life: Your Guide to Quitting For Good.Do I really have a problem with alcohol?This was a question that I asked myself repeatedly when I was still drinking. Usually when I had said or done something that left me feeling embarrassed or when I was...
by L Violo
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The darkness plays with light like a soft breeze, in and out of the sweetest sky. But the stunning colours of the dawn crack, exposing the grey. Then, without so much as a sound, the storm swirls in... smothers.The twenty years of journaling my story, The Man in the Room, resembles this type...
by Declan Mc Laughlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Addiction can be relentless, over-powering and exhausting - recovery is another way.
An addicts poem is a selection of poetry based on gambling, alcohol and drug misuse. Its aim is to give the reader some journeyunderstanding into the world of an addicts mind, from the authors first hand experiences...
The Therapist's Answer Book
Solutions to 101 Tricky Problems in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Therapists inevitably feel more gratified in their work when their cases have better treatment outcomes. This book is designed to help them achieve that by providing practical solutions to problems that arise in psychotherapy, such as:
Do depressed people need an antidepressant, or psychotherapy...