Substance Abuse category: 962 books

Every addictive drug and behavior is as unique as the individual caught in it. This book abandons the recovery-industry “one-size-fits-all” mentality by separating each drug and behavior and provides strategies that are customized, specific and detailed. Addiction is a pathological disorder that...

"The left side of my brain knew I was shooting page one photos for next week’s edition of the paper, and the right side felt overwhelmed by the emotion of seeing my home about to go out to sea." Author Barbara DeWitt Smith had a colorful childhood -- outrageous costume and cocktail parties,...

Do you feel powerless, distressed, incapable of overcoming the urge to light a cigarette?Have you heard about this method which has helped this writer to magically kick the habit of lighting 50 cigarettes a day in a single Day?– You should read this book in which the writer shares his remarkable...

Sexual addiction is a problem that affects millions of people. Maureen Canning, LMFT, who has extensive experience treating sex addicts, explains its roots and how those afflicted can recover. This book also explains the poisonous childhood seeds that lead to public scandals like the revelations...

This is a fantastic read for anyone struggling to move forward in their lives. The beauty of this fine eBook is that there is indeed a way forward, because the essays and poems on bullying, enabling, sexual abuse, denial and therapy are simply beautiful. Enjoy this fine read and feel the warm emotions that will strike many a chord in you – Leonard Smith, Dir. of Sunflower Healing --

Art Greer-Assistant to the General Presbyter, The Presbytery of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (U.S. A.) When parents came to me, having discovered their child was involved in drugs, and asked, "What in the word do I do now?", my answer was simple: "See John Cates!" It still...

Miss Laurel was dying. It was inevitable. Her 30 years of daily chemical abuse had brought her to the brink of destruction. She lost her husband and now her son. She wanted to die. Yet, God had another plan as she came to understand that no human power can save me. Scourge gives an unprecedented,...

Written by the Fellowship of Chemically Dependent Anonymous to share its history, philosophical underpinnings and program with others in our own book. We have based our program on one proven successful for over half a century by Alcoholics Anonymous in helping alcoholics find the road to recovery and...

All my life included feeling awkward, not fitting in, low self-esteem, bullying, mental illness, arson, theft, vandalism, special education, depression, marijuana addiction, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual promiscuities, suicide, encounters with the law, accidents, illnesses, and more. The different paths...

Gwen Miller is a woman who is approaching the independence of middle age as the last of her children completes college. Suddenly, faced with the most difficult decision of her life, she is forced to choose between her own freedom and saving three neglected and abused young children. With their lives...

 Les personnes étrangères aux études médicales  : hommes de lettres ou du monde, romanciers, chroniqueurs, simples gobe-mouches qui parlent, écrivent, discourent sur le propos de la morphine et de la morphinomanie, ignorent, la plupart du temps, le premier...

This book was originally going to be called 'H.O.W. Honest Open Willing Posts' which was a non-fiction but anonymous story about someone who posts on a social network in a closed group with about 260 understanding friends, family, school mates, and anonymous fellowship members. They start to relate in...

Un triangolo d'amore già per definizione non promette niente di buono. Se aggiungiamo il fatto che due dei tre vertici condividono gli stessi geni, e nel mezzo ci mettiamo una bottiglia che la faccia da padrona, abbiamo tutti gli ingredienti per chiamare in causa la follia...

The amazing true story of an out-of-control rock star, his devastating addiction to drugs, and his miraculous redemption through Jesus Christ. In February 2005, more than ten thousand people in Bakersfield, California, watched as Brian "Head" Welch—the former lead guitarist of...