Product DescriptionA leading wellness counselor offers a step-by-step holistic plan for the 50 million people in recovery—a personalized blueprint for adding years to their life and life to their years. Based on his twenty-five years in the trenches as a wellness professional and counselor, John Newport, Ph. D. , shares “the missing dimension” in recovery and the reason a majority of people battling a chemical dependency fail or don’t enjoy optimal health while abstinent: They do. . . More >>

The Wellness-Recovery Connection: Charting Your Pathway to Optimal Health While Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

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Product DescriptionOnly Mortals Can Be Heroes is a true story about a young boy, Adam Weaver, who experiences the pleasures and pains of the drug culture. Adam’s adventure describes how he started drugging at age 12 because he wanted to fit in with his peers. After marijuana and beer came Ritalin, Oxycontin, Ecstasy, LSD, uppers, downers, cocaine and heroin– and everything in between. The story is punctuated with a cocaine overdose at age 16 and a heroin overdose a few years later. . . . More >>

Only Mortals Can Be Heroes: A True Story about Drug Addiction

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Product DescriptionSlaying the Addiction Monster – An All-Inclusive Look at Drug Addiction in America Today is the second book by Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis. This book is an indepth look at the rampant drug epidemic in our country. It includes personal interviews with leading cocaine researchers. Also included is advice from parents for other parents on how to cope with living with an addicted person. The book also takes you into the world of the drug addicted person and includes advi. . . More >>

Slaying the Addiction Monster: An All-Inclusive Look at Drug Addiction in America Today

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Product DescriptionAfter suffering through the pain of her teenage sons drug addiction and ultimate arrest for armed robbery, Christy Crandell started on a mission to educate parents about the warning signs she missed. What Christy attributed to normal adolescent angst was indeed something much more serious. She failed to recognize the warning signs of drug abuse. The Crandell’s provided a secure, loving home in a safe community that they hoped would insulate them from the trouble t. . . More >>

Lost & Found

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Product Description“Detachment” has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict’s loved ones has been to let the addict “hit bottom” before intervening. Now intervention specialist Debra Jay challenges this belief and offers a bold new approach to treating addiction that provides a practical and spiritual lifeline to families struggling with alcohol or drug abuse. In No More Letting . . . More >>

No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

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Product DescriptionThis is an essential guide for teens struggling with alcoholism and addiction. In 2006, nearly 11 million young people from the ages of 12 to 20 reported using alcohol in the past month, and nearly 10 percent of those aged 12 to 17 reported using illicit drugs. Alcohol and drug abuse starts younger than most people are aware of, and the key to addressing and preventing this problem is to educate young people about the risks and factors involved. Alcoholism and drug a. . . More >>

Living with Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

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Product DescriptionHundreds of millions of people experiment with drugs of abuse, but only a small percentage of them become addicted. Vulnerability to develop addiction has been associated with impulsivity and/or novelty-seeking. It is currently believed that individual predisposition to vulnerability to addiction interacts with neurobiological adaptation in specific brain areas induced by chronic drug use. The present book presents an overview of the different scientific theories . . . More >>

Understanding Vulnerability to Drug Addiction

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Product DescriptionThe research in this book on the geographical context of drug addiction contributes to better understanding the etiology of addiction, its diffusion, its interaction with geographically variable environmental, social, and economic factors, and the strategies for its treatment and prevention. This book explores links between geography and drug abuse and identifies research ideas, connections, and research pathways which point to some promising avenues for future work. . . More >>

Geography and Drug Addiction

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Product DescriptionThis 199-page memoir is chock-full of answers to common questions the average citizen has about the experience of jail and the disease of addiction.

Imprisoned By Addiction was written by Dennis Brew, a survivor of a 20 year battle with addiction. In this book, he shares his real life experiences with overcoming a daily heroin and cocaine habit and the life of deciet and crime that is often the result of chronic drug use. Dennis provides a realistic yet humerous pe. . . More >>

Imprisoned by Addiction: My Story of Drug Addiction and Surviving the County Jail

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The Tao of Sobriety shows how to apply eastern philosophy to enhance recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. With a few simple mental exercises, readers can learn how to quiet “The Committee,” those nasty mental voices that undermine serenity and self-esteem. With leaders of the recovery movement enthusiastically endorsing this uniquely helpful book, The Tao of Sobriety is an invaluable addition to the recovery bookshelf.
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The Tao of Sobriety: Helping You to Recover from Alcohol and Drug Addiction

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