Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Best-selling recovery author Claudia Black introduces readers to five different families and reveals how each of the parents talked with their kids about recovery, relapse, and the child's own vulnerability to addiction.

Offering strategies for getting and staying sober, first-hand stories, and other resources for teens, parents, and professionals, Young, Sober, and Free helps young addicts and alcoholics through recovery.

Walk in Dry Places is a daily reader for those who seek simplicity and assuredness in their Twelve Step program.

Sober But Stuck addresses common issues, such as fear of failure, unhealthy relationships, and resentments, that can act as barriers to serenity and ultimately threaten sobriety.

The Little Red Book for Women speaks directly to women of the 21st Century who seek both the restorative powers of Twelve Step recovery and insights into the time-honored traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Whether youve hit an obstacle in your recovery from addiction, youre experiencing periodic relapse, or youre simply longing for something more, here is a true and certain guide to living more abundantly in recovery.

A fascinating account of the discovery and program of Alcoholics Anonymous, Not God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of AA's early figures.

Detachment and Enabling combines two classic, user-friendly texts designed for loved ones of addicts and alcoholics.

Added stress and anxiety caused by the coronavirus pandemic can further strain families already navigating a loved ones addiction.

In simple terms, this book shows how chemical dependency affects those around the addicted person, and teaches concerned people how to help and how to do it right.

Craig Nakken brings new depth and dimension to our understanding of how an individual becomes an addict.

This book brings together a series of short discussions from various authors who interpret the Twelve Steps.

The definitive book on the impact of methamphetamine on individuals, communities, and society by two of America's leading addiction and criminal justice experts.

Close-quarters and high-stress family life during the coronavirus pandemic may have you worried about a loved ones use or addictions, and what you can do to help.

With her reassuring and informative approach, Claudia Black expertly identifies common issues faced by children who grew up in alcoholic families--shame, neglect, unreasonable role expectations, and physical abuse.

With the revised information and up-to-date research, Out of the Shadows is the premier work on sex addiction, written by a pioneer in its treatment.

This compelling Dual Disorders Recovery Book, written for those with an addiction and a psychiatric illness, provides a source of information and support throughout recovery.

Stop the Chaos is a practical guide that identifies the telltale signs of addiction, offers suggestions for living alcohol- or drug-free, and teaches the skills necessary for healthy livingStop the Chaos, a comprehensive, practical guide, identifies the telltale signs of addiction, offers suggestions for living alcohol-or drug-free, and teaches the skills neccessary for healthy thinking and living.

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.

Designed to be used with the book A Womans Way through the Twelve Steps, this workbook helps deepen the understanding of the lessons taught and brings them to life with exercises and journaling activities.

If the coronavirus pandemic has coincided with your first steps towards sobriety and recovery, welcome!

We are on the verge of a crisis in mental health.

Describes the dramatic effects people experience when consuming psychoactive mushrooms.

Severe, chronic pain affects at least 116 million Americans every year.

Traces the history of the use of hallucinogenic drugs and discusses the psychological and physical effects of LSD, marijuana, mescaline, and other drugs.

ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic.

What do author James Frey and former president Bill Clinton have in common?

By focusing on a small town in South Carolina, this study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the South reveals the hard truths of an ongoing and complex issue.

ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic.

How people make sense of illness is, in part, culturally determined.

HIV/AIDS: Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment first discusses how depression and anxiety occur more frequently in people living with HIV/AIDS than in the general population.

The opening chapter of Living with HIV/AIDS: Challenges, Perspectives and Quality of Life is concerned with exploring the implications of living with invisible conditions in both social and professional networks, and how that may impact their overall health and wellbeing.

America is in the middle of an epidemic it has never seen before.

Recently, there has been a rise in opioid use in the United States involving both the nonmedical use of prescription drugs and more traditional illicit opioids, such as heroin.

Tobacco addiction (also known as nicotinism) remains a preventable healthcare challenge in the entire world and is the most significant cause of loss pertaining to national and international economy and productivity.

This book presents current research in the study of substance abuse.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

The world is under constant threat of a virus evolving into a global plague.

Surviving AIDS involves making all the right movesand even then, your life is at risk.

Soul searching poetry for a new generation.

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING UZO ADUBA AND MATTHEW BRODERICK 'This is the book that started it all.

LOCKED DOORS DON'T KEEP SECRETS SAFELOCK YOUR DOORSCaitlin has been having an affair for nearly a year when the country enters lock down.

*** SHORTLISTED for the 2021 COSTA BOOK AWARDS: BIOGRAPHY, PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE and the JHALAK PRIZE ***'Moving, engrossing, elegantly written' Lucy Atkins, Sunday TimesAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and his physician son explore how modern culture threatens to rewire our brains and damage our health, offering a practical plan for healing.