Substance Abuse/Addiction

Helps readers understand that, after achieving sobriety, leaving behind the numbing comfort of alcohol or other drugs means you must face yourself, perhaps for the first time.

This book is a compassionate and wise treatment of a topic of major concern in these most addictive of times, one that can provide a critical yet hopeful guide to a place of freedom based on contemplative spirituality.

This life-changing handbook helps addicts understand their addiction and the negative effect it has on their lives.

Representing a way of life, this essential recovery text has served as a lifeline to millions of recovering alcoholics worldwide.

Through the riveting stories of Americans in various stages of recovery and relapse, Denizet-Lewis shines a spotlight on our most misunderstood health problem.

A revolutionary 6-stage program for overcoming bad habits and moving your life positively forward.

This informative manual provides guidance in using drug testing in criminal justice settings, including prisons, jails, community collections, and parole.

Inpatient and outpatient facilities will find these guidelines helpful in deciding how to use drug testing as one component in a comprehensive treatment program.

Presents the social, medical, legal, and political issues related to drugs and alcohol and associated behaviors.

Provides essential theoretical and practical guidelines for clinicians, educators, policymakers, and public health professionals.

Offers reassuring counsel, compassionate insight, and wise discretion, taking readers through the steps to recovery.

Helps addicts find the best approach to beating any drug habit - from barbiturates and prescription drugs to marijuana, cocaine, and heroin.

These comprehensive manuals are the only resources available on implementing drug testing in specific settings.

Designed inform and empower those with dual disorders, this book allows readers to make the best choices about their own treatment and, in collaboration with a trained clinician, sculpt a program that works.

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

Provides a fresh and effective method for healing from addiction that can help readers handle important challenges, from managing anxiety and resisting cravings to dealing with emotional and physical imbalance.

Shows how to make anger work in a positive and effective way that can ease, rather than exacerbate, the problems and challenges of early recovery.

Explains exactly what a recovering addict and his or her family will face during every stage of living clean and sober.

Disproportionately large numbers of African Americans relapse. What can be done? Relapse is a serious problem for all recovering people, but it is especially severe for African Americans seeking recovery from addiction.

Offers an alternative approach to 12-step programs, which do not work for everyone.

Recovery is about making tough calls and big changes - switching the line-up, adjusting the swing, reviewing the game film - that will lead to a life of freedom and joy.

Millions of women struggle with an addiction to gambling. This groundbreaking book offers them the support they need to face this debilitating problem and take the necessary steps to regain control of their lives.

Numerous celebrities share their stories of addiction and recovery, offering hope and encouragement to readers.

Offers a program to help women explore the often-overlooked problems associated with their alcohol and drug addictions - such as body image, trauma and violence, relationships, stress, and thrill-seeking.