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As an alcohol and substance abuse counselor, I've found that most of my clients do not get enough quality sleep. And, the truth is most people in the general population don't get good sleep. In this book are several easy to understand charts that show you exactly how drugs and alcohol affect your sleep. I'll discuss what you can do to improve your sleep without relying on modern pharmaceuticals, over the counter sleep aids, prescription drugs, and...
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Chemical dependency and its denial aspects are the heart and soul of one of, if not the greatest, horrific problems in our society, yesterday, today and probably many tomorrows to come!
How do we deal with it? Well, the most popular world known strategies would be through the following:
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)
NA (Narcotics Anonymous)
And even GA (Gambling Anonymous)
The disease is incurable but arrestable using the aforementioned twelve-step...
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"A Parent's Guide to Substance Abuse and Addiction" provides a necessary education on what the main substances of abuse are, how they are used, how addiction occurs, and the resulting physical, psychological, and legal consequences. This concise and factual guide is a useful reference for both parents and their teens. Its main purpose is to educate and open a pathway of communication, trust, and respect between parents and their teens about drug and...
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"The Addicted Child" is a parent's guide to adolescent substance abuse. In Non-technical language parents learn how to identify and find treatment programs for their child. Brief chapters explain substances being used by today's adolescents and the process addictions which accompany substance abuse, like self-harm and eating disorders.
Parents will learn from Richard Capriola, a mental health and addictions counselor, the importance of comprehensive...
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. Maybe you've just started on the road to recovering from addiction. Or you've tried to stop abusing alcohol or drugs before, but haven't been successful. Perhaps you're making progress in a support group or 12-step program, but want to add an approach grounded in science. No matter how far you've come, how far you...
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Cathy and Sandy came upon their unique insight into the little understood phenomenon of dual dependency through years of professional practice and clinical work in their individual specialties: Cathy as a therapist treating chemical dependency and Sandy as an R.N. treating eating disorders. Puzzled by the failures of otherwise excellent programs, the two began comparing notes and observations and discovered that treatment of one addiction, while apparently...
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Recovery from anything is possible if you have hope. The Addiction Manifesto is the story of the trials and tribulations of a recovering addict on the road to recovery. For 20 years JR Weaver ran the streets, homeless, hopeless, Godless, and lost to the reality that his life was worth anything more than the next hit or drink. That is exactly what substance use disorder does, it blinds one to the reality or reasons behind why one's life has become...
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In one recent year, drug overdoses accounted for 26,000 deaths in the United States. Focus on the forensics of this serious social problem. How are drugs of abuse classified? How do they affect the body? And which regulated substances are more commonly analyzed in the forensic chemistry lab, since they're the most frequently encountered on the street?
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Why are you doing this to yourself, why can't you just quit?
"I don't know why I can't quit!"
An amazing story that captures your attention while candidly sharing about...the darkness of alcohol and drugs on a young person and how it affects others. A mom's continual prayers and the need to show tough love. The impact a school teacher has toward a rebellious teenager. The strength to stay in a marriage that seems bound to fail. A life-changing motorcycle...
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This book will show you how to run problem-solving group therapy sessions. It focuses it focuses on practical techniques rather than theory. The problem-solving group format does several things. It rapidly established an effective group atmosphere that allows individual group members to work on different issues in the same session using a series of standard group process procedures. The standard format is designed to help the therapist track the implementation...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: As a man with severe addiction to gambling, card counting, and cocaine, Mike Lindell made terrible life choices that ultimately cost him his wife, family, and financial stability. However, even as he was drowning in despair, God revealed himself in his life and showed him the miracles he could do, if only he had a flicker of hope.
“What Are the Odds?” traces the...
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#1 Addiction is a complex issue, and it can be difficult to understand where an addiction comes from. While the origins of an addiction are not important for recovery, focusing on the emotional patterns, thoughts, and stress that someone struggling with addiction is experiencing is important.
#2 The biopsychosocial model of treatment is focused on the connections between different factors that affect our well-being. It emphasizes that we all have...
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Sophie was a brilliant child by anyone's definition. Accomplished athlete, 4-H champion, recognized artist, and Western and English horsewoman. By the age of sixteen she had added one more "achievement" to her resume, this one ignominious: drug addict. “Then There Was No Mountain” describes the external and internal processes the author, Sophie's mother, experiences in coming to terms with her daughter's addiction, then in seeking and ultimately...
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Hijacking the Brain provides the first-ever scientific explanation for the success of Twelve-Step programs.
Hijacking the Brain examines data provided by recent rapid growth in the fields of neuroscience, neuroimaging, psychology, sociobiology and interpersonal neurobiology that have given us new, dramatic insights into the neural and hormonal correlates of stress and addiction, cognitive decline with addiction, as well as for the relative success...
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What do author James Frey and former president Bill Clinton have in common? They were both secret keepers, and their secrets had disastrous effects on their careers. Millions of people hide addictions from their closest friends and family, often destroying their lives and the lives of others. This book explores how to break the secret-keeping habit and get the help and support needed to overcome addiction, rebuild self-esteem, and live honestly. The...
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