Addiction and therapy

This manual provides state-of-the-art, practical materials to detect, prevent, and intervene with older adults who are at-risk and problem drinkers.

Isn't it unethical to pay people to do what they should be doing anyway?

A comprehensive overview of opioid use throughout human history, current problems surrounding opioid abuse, and suggested approaches to solving these problems.

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

Dentists have been inundated by patients with an array of complicated medical conditions and pain/sedation management issues.

Since 1960, the burden of adolescent illness has shifted from the traditional causes of disease to the more behavior-related problems, such as drinking, smoking and drug abuse (nearly half of American adolescents have used an illicit drug sometime during their life).

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.

The concept of sexual addiction has gained increasing recognition in the academic and healthcare communities since the 1990s.

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Explore effective, innovative ways to foster healthy relationships!

Originally published in 1977, alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world.

With rising rates of morbidity and mortality from substance abuse, addictions and mental health professionals are called upon to integrate innovative treatment modalities that are effective in supporting health and well-being, managing stress, decreasing cravings, supporting abstinence, and addressing the mental health issues that commonly occur with substance use disorders.

Addiction and Recovery in the UK captures the essence of the emerging addictions recovery movement and in particular the emerging evidence base that had been gathered around the umbrella of the Recovery Academy UK.

This volume is a compilation of articles that shed light on psychopathology, how the one struggling with it experiences its implications, and how it affects everyday life.

';The road to full recovery from alcohol addiction is made infinitely easier by following the right diet.

Alcohol use is complex and multifaceted.

Bringing together leading experts, this book demonstrates the unique value of brief motivational interventions for addressing adolescent alcohol and other substance use in a range of clinical contexts.

Harm Reduction is a philosophy of public health intended as a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain potentially dangerous lifestyle choices.

The growing use of illicit drugs among women has become a major concern for health professionals and social services.

Why do so many women with gambling addiction relapse?

Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction, including prevalence and co-morbidity rates, risk factors to addiction, and prevention and treatment strategies.

In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "recovery movement" that has grown out of them.

It has long been established that addiction or SUD - Substance Use Disorder - ruins lives and leads to illness, destruction of families, and death.

This state-of-the-art text and clinical resource captures the breadth of current knowledge about substance abuse and its treatment.

Millions of individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness also suffer from an equally powerful substance use disorder.

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.

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.

Your blueprint to develop and manage effective co-occurring treatment programs!

In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe.

Problems with alcohol use are common and often occur with other psychological and social problems as well.

This book integrates and synthesizes numerous empirically supported positive psychological constructs and psychotherapeutic theories to help understand addiction and facilitate recovery through the lens of forgiveness.

The growing use of illicit drugs among women has become a major concern for health professionals and social services.

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder gives you the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders and details how you can develop effective psychotherapy and treatment strategies.

Neuroimaging in Addiction presents an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the functional and structural imaging human studies that have greatly advanced our understanding of this complex disorder.

Increase your understanding of the link between alcoholism and shame and guilt with this tremendously important book that adds to our understanding of the total recovery process.

Dual Disorders: Essentials for Assessment and Treatment is a practical handbook for the assessment and clinical management of patients with addiction and psychiatric disorders.

This book presents the etiology, assessment, prevention and cessation of eleven focal addictions within an appetitive motivation framework of addiction.

A reference guide that answers the questions people have about addiction and addictive behaviors of all kinds, including drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, Internet usage, and more.

Explore the causes and effects of the shame/guilt/addiction cycle!

Drugs and the Future presents 13 reviews collected to present the new advances in all areas of addiction research, including knowledge gained from mapping the human genome, the improved understanding of brain pathways and functions that are stimulated by addictive drugs, experimental and clinical psychology approaches to addiction and treatment, as well as both ethical considerations and social policy.

Designing EEG Experiments for Studying the Brain: Design Code and Example Datasets details the design of various brain experiments using electroencephalogram (EEG).

In this age of increasing headlines about drug addiction and prescription drug abuse, this book is a timely revelation of how the nursing profession is also impacted by substance abuse.

Treating Addictions: The Four Components offers a unique and coherent understanding of addiction.

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.

This accessible guide offers a much-needed integration of family therapy into the treatment of substance use disorders.

This text focuses on the under-recognized and undertreated problem of addiction in later life.

This book introduces the Recovery Cycle, the only relatable model for positive change in sobriety and a simple roadmap for sober living.

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solution-the Multitudinous Self Model (MuSe).

Most people who die by suicide see a clinician prior to taking their lives.

Much of our scientific effort in tackling the multifactorial nature of addiction has taken place within individual disciplines.