Alcoholism category: 580 books
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...
by Victoria Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
When it comes to smoking, success depends almost wholly on the smoker’s DETERMINATION and WILL to stop. Without this determination, no anti-smoking remedy will succeed. But with it, a person CAN QUIT without paying for some EXPENSIVE anti-smoking remedy.
90% of ex-smokers quit WITHOUT any...
by Kristi Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
"Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human." —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering
Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she...
The Alcohol Experiment
A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Challenge your thinking, find clarity, and form new habits with a 30-day alcohol-free experiment from the author of This Naked Mind.
Changing your habits can be hard without the right tools. This is especially true for alcohol because habits are, by definition, subconscious thought processes....
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...
21 Years Gone
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
By the time Jack was fifteen he was addicted to alcohol and prescription drugs, was hanging out with rock stars in LA and living a life that any teenager would aspire to. And then The Osbournes turned him into a global celebrity. But as much as Jack enjoyed his fame, underneath it all he was still...
The Little Book
A Collection of Alternative 12 Steps
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
"A celebration of the varieties of recovery experience" -William L. White "A beautiful testimony to AA's living history." -Ernest Kurtz 20 Samples of alternative Steps for those in AA who are agnostic, atheist, humanist, etc. Interpretations of the steps by Dr. Allen Berger, Stephanie Covington, Gabor...
by Lucy Rocca
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
In April 2011, Lucy Rocca woke up in a hospital bed with no memory of how she had ended up there. After accepting that her drinking had spiralled out of control, she made the decision there and then to never touch alcohol again. However, the early days were a challenge, and Lucy began recording her...
Happy Hours
Alcohol in a Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Did You Know
Female alcoholics are twice as likely to die as male alcoholics in the same age group
Women metabolize alcohol differently from men, more quickly developing such physical complications as liver disease, high blood pressure, and hepatitis.
A female alcoholic is more likely to suffer from...
Being Sober
A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting To, Getting Through, and Living in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Featured on The Dr. Oz Show in Special Addiction Episode with Steven Tyler
The disease of addiction affects 1 out of 10 people in the United States, and is a devastating—often, fatal—illness. Now, from the physician director of the renowned Betty Ford Center, comes a step-by-step plan with...
by Jeff Herten
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For over thirty years author Dr. Jeff Herten was a high-functioning alcoholicone who drinks every day yet continues to lead a productive successful life. Now he shares how alcohol can destroy livesas it nearly destroyed his. Alcohol is the single greatest social ill in the U.S. Alcohol may lead to deadly...
Drink
The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous...
Sober for Good
New Solutions for Drinking Problems -- Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002
Finally someone has gone straight to the real experts: hundreds of men and women who have resolved a drinking problem. The best-selling author Anne M. Fletcher asked them a simple question: how did you do it? The result is the first completely unbiased guide for problem drinkers, one that shatters...
No More Hangovers
The revolutionary Allen Carr’s Easyway method in pocket form
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
READ THIS BOOK, FOLLOW ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS AND LEARN TO ESCAPE THE MISERY OF DRINKING TOO MUCH ALCOHOL.
Allen Carr's Easyway method has helped millions of people to quit smoking and other drugs, as well as to stop over-spending and over-eating. In No More Hangovers Allen turns his commonsense...