ADDICT AMERICA: THE LOST CONNECTION
Based on the innovative premise that addiction is not limited to drugs or alcohol, but is truly about the over-the-top, out-of-control lifestyles that have detached Americans from each other and their spiritual Connections (with a capital “C”). Dr. Carol Clark looks at add…read more
ALMOST ALCOHOLIC: IS MY (OR MY LOVED ONE’S) DRINKING A PROBLEM?
Every day, millions of people drink a beer or two while watching a game, shake a cocktail at a party with friends, or enjoy a glass of wine with a good meal. For more than 30 percent of these drinkers, alcohol has begun to have a neg…read more
FAMILIES UNDER THE INFLUENCE: CHANGING ALCOHOLIC PATTERNS
Drunkenness is powerful behavior. In time, families and friends will react to it in predictable ways. Working from this premise, family therapist Michael Elkin shows how alcoholic families develop, how they train their mem…read more
IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH ADDICTION
BEAUTIFUL BOY: A FATHER’S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS SON’S ADDICTION
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became add...read more
CODEPENDENT NO MORE: HOW TO STOP CONTROLLING OTHERS AND START CARING FOR YOURSELF
BEYOND CODEPENDENCY: AND GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME
Detaching from unhealthy relationships was the start. Here’s help for preventing coronavirus concerns from pulling you back into old patterns, and for living well–even in uncertain times. In simple, straightforward terms, Beattie takes you…read more
RECOVERY FROM TRAUMA, ADDICTION, OR BOTH: STRATEGIES FOR FINDING YOUR BEST SELF
SEEKING SAFETY: A TREATMENT MANUAL FOR PTSD AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
This manual presents the first empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed specifically for co-occurring PTSD and substance abuse. For persons with this prevalent and difficult-to-treat dual diagnosis, the most urgent clinical need is to establish saf…read more
A WOMANS WAY THROUGH THE TWELVE STEPS
Women’s recovery can differ from men’s, and each person’s recovery is in many ways unique. That’s why Stephanie Covington has designed A Women’s Way Through the Twelve Steps to help a woman find her own path-and find it in terms especially suit…read more
GLASS
Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she’s determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is ba…read more
CRANK
This is a story about a monster. Not a dragon or a mythological beast, but a very real, very destructive monster–crystal meth–that takes hold of seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow and transforms her into her reck…read more
DRINKING: A LOVE STORY
It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover’s refrigerator. The way she slipped from the din…read more
STAYING SOBER: A GUIDE FOR RELAPSE PREVENTION
TWEAK: GROWING UP ON METHAMPHETAMINES
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life tog…read more
WE ALL FALL DOWN: LIVING WIH ADDICTION
In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful follow-up about his continued eff…read more
MEMOIRS OF AN ADDICTED BRAIN: A NEUROSCIENTIST EXAMINES HIS FORMER LIFE ON DRUGS
Marc Lewis’s relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hipp…read more
ALL FALL DOWN: A NOVEL
Allison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, an adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. But while waiting in the pediatrician’s office, she opens a magazine to a quiz about addiction and starts to won…read more
WHEN TWO LOVES COLLIDE: THE INSPIRING STORY OF DR. JOHN AND DOT MOONEY
Army Captain John Mooney, Jr., M.D., returns from World War II a heroic surgeon, highly decorated for his bravery and the wounds he received saving soldiers in fierce combat all across Europe. In addition to his battle scars, he returns with an…read more
THE BIOLOGY OF DESIRE: WHY ADDICTION IS NOT A DISEASE
The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that add…read more
THE ADDICTION WORKBOOK: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR QUITTING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS
The Addiction Workbook starts you on your journey by explaining the facts about addiction. It shows you how you can determine if you have a problem and helps you cut through denial or ambivalence to re…read more
KILL THE CRAVING: HOW TO CONTROL THE IMPULSE TO USE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
A new approach to treating substance abuse applies the Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy to addiction–a method that helps people immunize them…read more
SECRET NO MORE: A TRUE STORY OF HOPE FOR PARENTS WITH AN ADDICTED CHILD
She was an accomplished health care administrator, a fundraising executive running a multi-million-dollar campaign for one of Maryland’s leading health care systems. Her husband was a former mayor. They had raised a happily married daughter. From all app…read more
SAVE THE TEENS: PREVENTING SUICIDE, DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION
Save the Teens: Preventing suicide, depression and addiction is a non-fiction book written by a mother who lost her 18 year-old son to suicide in 2005, but it is not a memoir. The author researched all the topics that made her wonder why her only child would per…read more
WHEN A FAMILY IS IN TROUBLE: CHILDREN CAN COPE WITH GRIEF FROM DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION
Provides basic information about drug and alcohol addictions and encourages healthy coping skills…read more
INSIDE REHAB: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT ADDICTION TREATMENT-AND HOW TO GET HELP THAT WORKS
An eye-opening tour of the addiction treatment industry explores the gap between what should happen and what doesWhat happens inside drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and how rehab works are a mystery to those outside the industry – and… read more
CLEAN: OVERCOMING ADDICTION AND ENDING AMERICA’S GREATEST TRAGEDY
Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science — not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking.These facts are the foundat… read more
TRAUMA AND THE TWELVE STEPS: A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR ENHANCING RECOVERY
Criticism of 12-step recovery is nothing new; however, 12-step programs are increasingly getting a bad rap for being too “one size fits all,” or not applicable to individuals struggling with issues beyond the scope of simple alcoholism or add… read more
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS
In the 1980’s, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from vari… read more
ADDICTION AS AN ATTACHMENT DISORDER
From the Foreword:”Addiction is a disorder in self-regulation. Individuals who become dependent on addictive substances cannot regulate their emotions, self-care, self-esteem, and relationships. In this monumental and illuminating text Philip… read more
WHEN AA DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU: RATIONAL STEPS TO QUITTING ALCOHOL
The first book that applies the insights of rational-emotive therapy to the recovery from problem drinking. read more
BEYOND ADDICTION: HOW SCIENCE AND KINDNESS HELP PEOPLE CHANGE
The groundbreaking method that upends current treatment models and “offers collective hope to families of substance abusers” (Kirkus Reviews), helping loved ones conquer addiction and compulsion problems through positive reinforcement and kin… read more
GET YOUR LOVED ONE SOBER: ALTERNATIVES TO NAGGING, PLEADING, AND THREATENING
The first general consumer book ever on the powerful, award-winning, scientifically proven new system of intervention that is turning the recovery field on its head.Historically there have been few options available for individuals seeking he… read more
BUZZED: THE STRAIGHT FACTS ABOUT THE MOST USED AND ABUSED DRUGS FROM ALCOHOL TO ECSTASY (FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOURTH EDITION)
The fourth edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior. A bestseller in its three previous editions, Buzzed is now revised and updated with the most recent discoveries ab… read more