Addiction and therapy

Break free from sugar addiction and take control of your health.

Here is a practical and clearly written guide to the use of Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the treatment of alcoholism and other addictions.

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours.

The goal of this book is to contribute to the ongoing scholarly discussion on the very serious topic of drunkenness.

- Berauschend vielschichtig: Alkohol und Drogen evolutionär, historisch, gesellschaftlich und medizinisch betrachtet- Aktuell: Wie gefährlich sind moderne Drogen?

This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy.

For most of the post-war period, alcohol problems had been viewed primarily as individual problems.

Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem.

In popular culture, the American college experience almost always includes drug or alcohol abuse as a rite of passage.

Drawing on scientific evidence from medicine, psychology, criminology, and sociology, this book explores the veracity of claims about marijuana use and misuse.

This textbook details how mental health and addiction are interconnected through childhood trauma, how this affects neurobiology and neuropsychology, and the need for an integrated whole-person treatment for those of diverse backgrounds to enhance treatment outcomes.

Substance misuse and its pervasive problems is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professionals today.

Changing health-related behavior is for many people a lonely and isolating experience.

Discover fresh perspectives on alcoholism treatment and research with this enlightening new book describing the work of researchers at the Novosibirsk Medical Institute, USSR.

Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire.

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?

The first compendium of all substance abuse treatment options with a focus on best practicesThis is the first compendium of the entire range of options available for treating substance abuse, with a focus on effectiveness.

Why are people often so unpredictable?

Mutual-help groups have proliferated, diversified and adapted to emerging substance-related trends over the past 75 years, and have been the focus of rigorous research for the past 30 years.

Study Guide to Substance Abuse Treatment is a question-and-answer companion that allows you to evaluate your mastery of the subject matter as you progress through The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, Fifth Edition.

Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective presents an overview of trends in the treatment of alcohol problems over a 20-year period from three vantage points: broader treatment perspectives, experienced views from the field, and personal perspectives.

Here at last is a comprehensive volume on the often-ignored but vitally important subject of care for the chemically dependent adolescent.

To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start Dr Gabor Mat is one of the world s most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction.

Although the media focus on the rise of cocaine use and the evils of its abuse, the public receives little real information about the scope of the problem and its treatment.

Designed for use with clients recovering from sex addiction, this book guides readers through discovering the essential skills for their sober journey and find meaning and purpose in life through character development and emotional maturity, while improving their relationship with healthy intimacy.

This book brings together contributions from leading authors in the field of dissociation to facilitate the pursuit of integrative clinical scholarship, connecting psychoanalytic thinking and practice with dissociation research and treatment.

This timely volume fills a long-standing gap in the professional literature by providing an overview of contemporary assessment and rehabilitation of alcohol and chemical dependent substance abusers.

An anthology of essays that represent the most current and authoritative information now available on addiction theory, practice and research.

An innovative new approach to addiction treatment that pairs cognitive behavioural therapy with cognitive neuroscience, to directly target the core mechanisms of addiction.

Counseling Addicted Families, Second Edition, is an up-to-date treatment manual that fosters lasting change for families dealing with addiction and addictive disorders.

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.

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa.

This two volume set contains frank and factual information about symptoms, causes, effects, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse-alcohol, nicotine, and drugs-and of behavioral addictions such as eating disorders, pathological gambling, and compulsive sexual activity.

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are common among many patients with medical and psychiatric disorders.

Understanding and Treating Sex and Pornography Addiction demonstrates why people's lives are being destroyed by compulsive sexual behaviour and what we can do to help them.

Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today.

We are all people-pleasers in one way or another - even those who deny it.

This A-Z encyclopedia provides a broad and evenhanded overview of America's complex relationship with marijuana, examining political, recreational, cultural, medical, and economic aspects of marijuana use both historically and in the present day.

Der globale Zigarettenkonsum ist kaum zurückgegangen, fordert weltweit pro Jahr mindestens 6 Millionen Tote und hat gravierende gesundheitliche wie auch volkswirtschaftliche Folgen.

What is the connection between autism and addiction?

Following its inclusion in ICD-11, the addictive use of computer games has now found its way into health care as a recognized new disorder.

Emerging from an era of changing mental health and addiction services, Different Diagnoses, Similar Experiences is the first work in its field to gather narratives of mental health, addiction and dual diagnoses into one publication, as well as to critically examine the differences and similarities of these experiences.

Das Buch beschreibt den aktuellen Stand zum Thema Sportsucht und pathologisches Bewegungsverhalten, darunter Definitionen, Prävalenz, Entstehungsbedingungen, Diagnostik und Therapie.

Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods.

Chronic pain places a tremendous burden on both the patient and the healthcare system.

Since the legalisation of off-course cash betting in 1960, and the rise of varying forms of gambling, the British have come to be known as a nation of gamblers.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as 'dangerous' and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat.

Based on a curriculum that was successfully implemented and evaluated at Stepping Stone, a drug and alcohol treatment program in San Diego, Sexual Health in Recovery offers counselors a chance to understand and integrate basic sexual health principles into their work.

The Clinician's Guide to Alcohol Moderation examines alcohol use around the world and teaches a range of behavioral health care providers how to help clients practice alcohol moderation.