Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center to homeless shelters to shooting heroin on the job to being declared dead.
Chi Kung, the art of cultivating life force energy, is here distilled into a key selection of exercises designed to boost health, enhance vitality, and increase mind-body-spirit consciousness.
While many people become adept at recovery and learn to live by the principles embodied in the Twelve Steps, they receive little or no guidance in the practical management of their spiritual condition.
Written in scientific prose that can also be understood by the layperson, this comprehensive volume is a must-read for those working in the addiction field and anyone interested in learning more about this devastating disease.
Based on the author's own experience as a parent with an addicted child, she provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery.
Elhajj uses the principles learned in his 12-step program to forge a powerful bond with the son he left behind at age 3, as that boy grows to maturity and a new closeness with his father.
Poignant and moving stories from recovering addicts about how the unconditional love of their pets brought them from the horrors of active addiction to a life filled with hope and healing.
Poignant and moving stories from recovering addicts about how the unconditional love of their pets brought them from the horrors of active addiction to a life filled with hope and healing.
This engaging book provides a novel examination of the nature of addiction, suggesting that by exploring akrasia-the tendency to act against one's better judgement-we can better understand our addictive behaviors.
Author of the most successful self-help stop-smoking method of all time, Allen Carr here further exposes the traps of smoking and provides smokers with the motivation to break free forever.
Allen Carr's international bestseller, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, has sold more than eleven million copies worldwide and helped to turn countless smokers into non-smokers.
Did you know that anyone--addicts or non-addicts--can benefit from working the Twelve Steps and find the freedom, joy, and intimacy with God that their hearts long for?
Because people's contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders.
This handbook provides mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the biopsychosocial nature of disordered gambling and shares current evidence-based theories, interventions and strategies to use in clinical practice.
With contributions from well-respected figures in the field, this book explores the use of narrative and image in the therapeutic treatment of trauma and addiction.
Allen Carr etablerade sig som världens främsta expert på att hjälpa folk att sluta röka och hans bästsäljare Äntligen icke-rökare - det enkla sättet att sluta, är utgiven på mer än 40 språk och har sålt i mer än 10 miljoner exemplar.
A powerful memoir of redemption from the son of blues legend John Lee HookerBorn in Detroit and exposed to the music world from an early age, John Lee Hooker Jr.
Since Benjamin Rush first introduced the disease of wills as the cause of alcoholism, a steady and slow infiltration of the disease model has infected how the church treats those who struggle with addictions.
In this award-winning memoir, you'll meet Hannah, a young girl who has a promising future until she suddenly spirals into sex, drugs, alcohol, and other high-risk behaviors.
The editor and authors of Youth Substance Abuse and Co-occurring Disorders take an applied approach that serves the needs of clinicians, clinical researchers, and students in the fields of mental health, public health, and medicine (pediatrics, family medicine, and child and adolescent psychiatry, in particular).
This introduction to the Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program is offered to all alcoholic men and women whose "e;lives have become unmanageable"e; because of their powerlessness over alcohol.
This fourth edition of Symptoms and Signs of Substance Use has been thoroughly updated and revised, continuing to provide trusted information from leading experts.