Drug And Alcohol Addiction Book Reviews
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Drug And Alcohol Addiction Book Reviews
AA to Z:
Addictionary to the 12-Step Culture
AA to Z is a book that documents the richness and diversity of the lives of recovering people and to provide an encyclopedic look at this unique subculture.
Less self-help than enlightenment and entertainment, AA to Z is comprised of real-life stories of recovering addicts as well as an addictionary of recovery terminology.
AA to Z Addiction:
The High That Brings You Down
Written for young people, this book discusses various types of addictions and their symptoms, the trauma of living in an addicted household, and the support available for families battling this problem.
The presentation focuses on drugs and alcohol, but also touches on other addictive behaviours in an abstract way.
Addiction The High... Alcoholism and Women:
The Background and the Psychology
(Studies in Jungian Psychology... 11)
Compares and contrasts medical and psychological models as they relate to women. Examines the success of Alcoholics Anonymous in terms of archetypal patterns represented by the Greek gods: Apollo (structure and order), Dionysus (freedom and intoxication) and Asclepius (the wounded healer). Index.
Alcoholism and Women Alcohol Withdrawal Treatment Manual
Explains diagnosis and treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS), focusing on three different symptom clusters, each with its own physiological basis and its own preferred treatment agents.
Offers detailed information on pharmacotherapy, including specific dosing regimens and information on contraindications and adverse effects, plus coverage of common medical and surgical comorbidities and their interaction with AWS.
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Alcohol Withdrawal Treatment Manual Beating Heroin
This book was written for heroin addicts, their families, friends and health care workers. Dr Beck uses buprenorphine, group therapy and to a lesser extent naltrexone and other medications where necessary.
The book includes a comparison of detoxification methods, pre-existing underlying factors which can lead to heroin addiction, the commonest cause of substance abuse and addiction, depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, diet, biofeedback, therapy groups, and other things used to help beat heroin.
Beating Heroin Before It's Too Late:
Working With Substance Abuse in the Family
This book provides clinicians with the best model for working with couples, families, and adolescents suffering alcohol and drug problems, by one of family therapy's best authors and therapists. An interesting read for therapists, abusers, and their families.
Before It's Too Late Beyond the Influence:
Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism
This book should be in every therapist's library, whether their field is addiction treatment or not. The content includes a rich array of contributions from a variety of authorities in the field of mental health and addictive disease. Not only is it a excellent reference book for the addictionologist, but it can be clearly understood by the layperson.
--James W. West M.D.
Beyond the Influence Chemical Dependence Treatment Homework Planner
In today's climate of managed care and leaner benefits packages, chemical dependence treatment providers must find ways to achieve measurable success in less time and with less client contact. This will help substance abusers work through their problems between sessions.
This book is fantastic, a wonderful tool in the treatment of drug addiction. quick and precise.
Chemical Dependence Treatment Homework Planner Cocaine Addiction:
Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention
Provides insight into the mind of the addict which will be useful to the addict, family and friends, as well as to the treatment professional.
Cocaine Addiction Free Yourself from Tranquilizers and Sleeping Pills:
A Natural Approach
Providing an upbeat and natural approach to overcoming one of the most widespread forms of drug dependency, this book is a step-by-step guide to gradual withdrawal from tranquilizers.
It frees people from their dependencies by helping them understand the side effects they might experience, from dizziness and nausea to depression, confusion and rage.
Free Yourself from Tranquilizers and Sleeping Pills Heroin
The definitive reference on the drug's history, pharmacology, psychology, and sociology, this ground breaking work also offers a spell-binding account of heroin's power and persistent allure.
Recommended reading for both the general public and addiction treatment professionals. It provides a wealth of information of great value in understanding heroin addiction and treatment.
--Mark Parrino, M.P.A., President, American Methadone Treatment Association
Heroin How to Quit Drugs for Good:
A Complete Self-Help Guide
Different strokes work for different folks. The purpose of this book is to highlight the whole spectrum of treatments available for addictions so that the reader can better select a treatment more suitable to their unique needs.
It is a comprehensive manual that goes into detail about all drugs, their effects, and effective treatments and therapies available. One would do very well in selecting this book to help themselves or as a manual in helping others in the field of addictions treatment.
How to Quit Drugs for Good Intervention:
How to Help Someone
Who Doesn't Want Help:
A Step-By-Step Guide for
Families of Chemically Dependent Persons
This gives a good overview of chemically dependency and the general techniques used for intervention. The author makes it quite clear that families can intervene on a chemically dependent person without using a professional in many cases.
This is important for families who do not have the money to hire a professional. But the book does not give a great deal of detailed instruction on how to carry out an intervention.
There are many issues that will crop up that the book does not cover, so this would be a good first choice to see if intervention is the right course of action for you.
Intervention Kill the Craving:
How to Control the Impulse
to Use Drugs and Alcohol
This is the first self help book to introduce Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) therapy to addicts.
Long successful in the treatment of a range of psychological disorders, this controversial technique has recently been found to have long-term effectiveness for alcoholics and chronic drug users.
ERP teaches addicts to confront their temptations in order to immunize themselves against powerful behavioral triggers.
Kill the Craving New Treatments for Opiate Dependence
Integrates chapters on the scientific basis of opiate addiction with a comprehensive survey of the latest treatment methods, including traditional and new pharmacotherapies, adjunct therapies, and the management of co-morbid substance abuse and medical conditions.
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New Treatments for Opiate Dependence Playing It Straight:
Personal Conversations on Recovery
Transformation and Success
This brutally honest and powerful, the book is a collection of eye-opening interviews with America's foremost musicians and entertainers who have fought addiction.
Those interviewed include Steven Tyler, Nils Lofgren, John Hiatt, Mitch Ryder, Eddie Money, Grace Slick, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and others.
Playing It Straight Spirituality and Chemical Dependency
Collected essays discuss each step of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program focusing on how spirituality is used in recovery. Additional contributions examine chemical dependency treatment in the field of art therapy, and specific issues for gay, lesbian, and Native American populations.
Spirituality and Chemical Dependency (softcover) Spirituality and Chemical Dependency (hardcover) The Addiction Workbook:
A Step-By-Step Guide
to Quitting Alcohol and Drugs
At any given time there are 18 million adult alcoholics and drug addicts in America. Of the 17 percent who quit each year, most do so on their own. This handbook can help addicts understand their addiction and the negative effect it has on their lives.
The Addiction Workbook The Addictive Personality:
Understanding the Addictive Process
and Compulsive Behavior
For nearly a decade, Addictive Personality has helped people understand the process of addiction. Now, this revised edition brings new depth and dimension to our understanding of how an individual becomes an addict.
This book covers genetic factors tied to addiction, cultural influence on addictive behavior, the progressive nature of the disease, and steps to a successful recovery.
The Addictive Personality The Betty Ford center Book of Answers:
Help for Those Struggling With
Substance Abuse and for
the People Who Love Them
A clear, easy to read but thorough treatment of substance abuse and it's effects on the victims and their families. Dr. West is able to explain many types of substance abuse, their origins and then make practical suggestions for recovery.
The Betty Ford center Book of Answers The 12 Steps:
A Way Out:
A Spiritual Process for Healing
Based on the 12 Steps and Al Anon, this book directly addresses concepts, concerns and ideas crucial to the recovering adult child.
The 12 Steps