Substance Abuse category: 962 books
Helping Your Troubled Teen: Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens
Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The first "adolescent primer" on the marketDestructive trends among today's youth are growing, making life very different from when their parents were growing up. The primary four self-destructive behaviors in adolescence today are excessive alcohol and substance abuse, promiscuity, self...
Slipping Through the Cracks
Intervention Strategies for Clients with Multiple Addictions and Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Clients who have multiple addictions and disorders are more difficult to engage and treat than clients with a single disorder. Many of the current systems are ill-equipped to address the myriad challenges of these clients—their relapse and recidivism rates are higher, and many of these clients tend...
Addicted Like Me
A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Told through the voices of a mother-daughter writing team, Addicted Like Me offers a detailed personal account of addiction and how it affects the entire family. Karen Franklin recounts her own past as a young addict, her struggle with the alcoholism of her parents, and ultimately her husband’s...
Of Course You're Angry
A Guide to Dealing with the Emotions of Substance Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
In a friendly, nonconfrontational manner, Of Course You're Angry guides readers to discover the source of their anger and the forms it takes –violence, depression, resentment, and manipulation.
Though we may not like to admit it, all of us get angry. At times we feel irked, exasperated, irritated,...
Women & Recovery: Sex, Sobriety, & Stepping Up
Practical Suggestions for Quality Living in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
In Women and Recovery: Sex, Sobriety and Stepping Up, Ann D. Clark, Ph.D, provides readers with a no-nonsense, step-by-step guide to giving up anything. Clark explains how to conquer addictions using a lighthearted approach. Addressing such problems as substance abuse, overeating, shopping, or simply...
by Kyle Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
The poems here are for people struggling to move forward in their lives. The characters in some of the pieces have had substance abuse problems and are trying their best in therapy. Recovery is hard, but they are determined to hang in there. There are also poems for people who have lost their faith and friendship through the years. Have a tissue ready as you read the beautiful stories here.
by Tyler Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The nicotine dependence is the most common form of substance abuse in subjects with schizophrenia, they are dependent on nicotine with a rate three times higher than that of the general population. The relationship between smoking and schizophrenia is complex: sick people seem to be driven to smoke, and researchers have found a biological basis for this addiction.
Natural Rest for Addiction
A Radical Approach to Recovery Through Mindfulness and Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Freedom from addiction is available in the one place that’s the most difficult for an addict to be—the present moment. In Natural Rest for Addiction, non-duality teacher and addiction specialist Scott Kiloby offers his Natural Rest program for finding recovery from substance abuse—and addictions...
Addiction Is the Symptom
Heal the Cause and Prevent Relapse with 12 Steps That Really Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There's a Better Way to Work the Twelve Steps Drugs, food, money, sex, relationshps, work . . . Any addiction darkens and potentially threatens our lives. We want to change, but we can't. "Relapse is a part of recovery," we're told. Really? In Addiction Is the Symptom, Dr. Rosemary Ellsworth Brown...
If I’m In Treatment, Will I Lose My Job?
A Guide For The Employee Seeking Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Do you feel that your substance abuse is causing lower productivity, an increase in tardiness and absenteeism, and putting you at job jeopardy? Navigating around entering treatment while still employed can feel like a challenge. This handbook can be utilized as a comprehensive guide to help you start....
Can I Keep Drinking?
How You Can Decide When Enough is Enough
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Only about 6 percent of the population that are alcoholic need to quit drinking completely in their recovery process, yet nearly 90 percent of treatment programs and substance abuse treatment practitioners require total abstinence from alcohol. Cynthia Turner is not one of them. In Can I Keep Drinking?...
by Terence T. Gorski
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
This book is for recovering people, their families, and addiction professionals who want to understand psychological and spiritual thinking about addiction on a deep level. I have been working on this book for a long time. There are complex psychological and spiritual issues that need to be addressed...
Healed From Drug Addiction
Healed From Mind Erosion
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Healed From Drug Addiction: Healed From Mind Erosion. This anointed delivers and heal a person from drug addiction and all substance abuse and addiction and Alcoholism. It restores self-worth in a person’s life. It brings salvation of the body, soul and mind. It removes oppressing strongholds, illness,...
by Tiziana M.
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Life can be crazy. Life can be stressful. Life can be hard to take. These are all truths that are just simple facts. Because life can be difficult, people look for different ways to cope with the stress that life brings.
Regrettably, drugs have become the most prominent coping mechanism that people...