Addictions category: 667 books
Turning the Tables on Gambling
Hope and Help for Addictive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Don’t Gamble with Your Future.
Nearly two-thirds of the adult population in the United States gambled in the past year. For some, this represented a casual bet or a whimsical wager on winning the lottery. But for a significant and growing portion of the population, gambling isn’t recreation–it’s...
Real Hope, True Freedom
Understanding and Coping with Sex Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Real Hope, True Freedom covers a wide variety of topics on sex addiction and the process of recovery. It addresses the different manifestations of sex addiction, how sex addiction impacts the brain, sex addiction risk factors, when sex addiction co-occurs with other mental health disorders, barriers...
by ww musika
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The American Dream has been transplanted around the world. ww musika blithely teeters between the dry, vast landscape of the southwestern United States and the steamy, pungent crowds of Bangkok. The observations in Horse Latitudes reveal the flaws in The Dream and the drive to adapt its desires across...
by Aleister Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Often overlooked in discussions of the great narcotics memoirs, Crowley’s rarely read 1922 work Diary of a Drug Fiend deserves to be mentioned alongside such addiction classics as Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Naked Lunch, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Trainspotting. Crowley’s 'diary'...
Taking Back Your Life
Women and Problem Gambling
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Up-to-date, guided support to help women with a gambling problem achieve the rewards of a hopeful life, free of addiction
Up-to-date, guided support to help women with a gambling problem achieve the rewards of a hopeful life, free of addiction Today, more than five million women in the United...
Healing and Hope
Six Women from the Betty Ford Center Share Their Powerful Journeys of Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
“A moving account of six former alcoholics and Betty Ford graduates—among them a teacher, a housewife and a gang member—with commentary from Ford herself.”—Self
“There was a lot of drinking and codependence in my extended family. Sitting in my jail cell, I thought about how many...
The American Disease
Origins of Narcotic Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1999
The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relationz between public outcry and the creation...
by Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Schaler
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Politicians and the media tell us that people who take drugs, including alcohol or nicotine, cannot help themselves. They are supposedly victims of the disease of 'addiciton', and they need 'treatment'. The same goes for sex addicts, shopping addicts, food addicts, gambling addicts, or even addicts...
Addiction
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Written by professional counsellors, this concise and easy-to-read booklet for clients and families includes information on:
what addiction is
what causes addiction
addiction treatment and other support options
recovery and relapse prevention
help for partners and families
explaining addiction...
by Diana Thorgill
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
It has been recognized recently that all addictive behavior - whether it be smoking, alcohol intake, shopaholics, workaholics, playing games, watching TV too much, having a lot of sex, doing a lot of exercises to buying a book and not reading it, and others - work the same general way the brain works...
Dying for a Drink
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Alcohol causes more misery, illness and death than any other substance. Alcohol is one of the three biggest lifestyle risk factors for disease and death after smoking and obesity, and a causal factor in more than 60 medical conditions, including various cancers, cirrhosis depression. In the UK in...
Drunks
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Reveals the history of our struggle with alcoholism and the emergence of a search for sobriety that is as old as our nation.
In Drunks, Christopher Finan introduces us to a colorful cast of characters who were integral in America’s moral journey to understanding alcoholism. There's the remarkable...
Smoking Kills! ... Get Help Now to Stop Smoking for Life
Learn Tips To Quit Smoking Including Tobacco Facts And The Different Solutions To Stop Smoking Such As Nicotine Patches, Addiction Counseling, Cold Turkey And Other Stop Smoking Aids To Help You Kick The Habit For Good!
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Do you smoke? Do you know someone you care about who smokes? Then maybe it’s time to start kicking the habit right away. Smoking can give you: 1. bad breath, 2. yellowed fingertips 3. rotting...
by Ace McCloud
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Would you love to be free from the terrible effects of smoking?
Whether you want to (1) find a way to quit that works, (2) save money, or (3) stop poisoning yourself and get healthy again, this book will teach you everything you need to know.
Kick the nicotine habit for good!
Good...