Product Description: Yoga is not just a physical practice. Like twelve-step recovery, it is a journey along a spiritual path, with a code of ethics leading to contentment and bliss, and it can lead to spiritual union with one's higher power. In Yoga and the Twelve-Step Path, author Kyczy Hawk brings the powerful ancient practice of yoga with all of its diverse approaches and time-honored traditions to infuse and deepen the modern spiritual practice of the Twelve Steps of recovery, in an inviting, engaging read...read more

Product Description: Weaving actual clinical examples with solid research, Substance Abuse continues to provide counseling, social work, and other students with a detailed overview of the alcohol and other drug (AOD) field. Now in its Third Edition, this text provides updated coverage and practical clinical examples to reflect the rapid changes in the field of addiction...read more

Product Description: ADDICTION TREATMENT covers the biological, psychological, and social aspects of alcoholism, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and other addictions. As symbolized by the image on the book's cover, the authors bridge the gap between the popular twelve-step and harm-reduction approaches, thus illuminating how practitioners can guide clients down a trusted path that is tailored towards the client's particular needs...read more

Product Description: Working a 12-step program helps keep many recovering addicts and alcoholics sober, but not necessarily happy. They are often left with unresolved feelings of fear, anger, and grief about their lives. Addiction and Grief looks at the emotional "bottom" of recovery...read more

Product Description: Finally—a road map to recovery from the nation's most original thinker on addiction In his revolutionary book The Heart of Addiction, Dr. Lance Dodes examined the underlying emotions that drive addictive behaviors—whether drinking, gambling, sex, or eating...read more

Product Description: The one-of-a-kind exploration of effective alcohol prevention and treatment for Latinos-now and for the future!By the year 2020, the Latino population in the United States will increase to 60 million, making up 18 percent of all residents...read more

Outlines a program for breaking addictions through the use of over-the-counter nutritional supplements, describing the author's three-step program for reducing drug and alcohol cravings, cleansing the body with detoxifying remedies, and correcting nutritional imbalances to ensure long-term results. Reprint.

Product Description: Filling a crucial need, this book presents Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), a time- and cost-effective therapy program oriented to individuals who want to motivate a loved one to seek help. The authors' nonconfrontational approach teaches concerned significant others (CSOs) how to change their own behavior in order to reward sobriety, discourage substance use, and ultimately to help get the substance abuser into treatment...read more

Product Description: "The perfect handbook for the clinical supervisor."—Nancy Waite-O’Brien, director, Education and Training, Betty Ford Center"An outstanding contribution to the professional well-being of the addiction field."—Thomas McGovern, editor, Addiction Treatment Quarterly"Forever useful...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Author William Fleeman believes chemically dependent people use drugs to transform painful feelings like anxiety, fear, and depression into pleasurable feelings like confidence, courage, and elation. This book helps readers unlearn this destructive pattern through a cognitive/behavioral approach...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An in-depth study of the modern drug rehab system follows the struggles of five addicts as they make their way throught the complex maze of drug treatment; explores the links among addiction, mental illness, trauma, and abuse; and calls for an integrated approach that treats the root causes of drug abuse rather than simply the behavior itself. Reprint.

Product Description: Family relationships change dramatically when one or more members stops drinking. Far from offering a "quick fix" to family problems, in fact, the first years of sobriety are often marked by continuing tension that fuels marital stress, acting-out kids, and difficulties at work...read more

Product Description: This new edition provides an up-to-date examination of the key issues of the drug problem, including cigarettes, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana. It offers a current review of definitions of drug use and dependence, the latest developments regarding tobacco use and the historical agreement between government and industry, and research and analysis from a cross-cultural perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Community surveys reveal that about 6% of the adult male and 1% of the adult female population in England and Wales are drinking at high risk levels. Alcohol Problems in the Community examines the implications of recent community care legislation for government policy on alcohol. The first part of the book begins with a report on recent US research on the role of alcohol in the perpetration of child abuse and recent research on young people's drinking problems. This is followed by a study on the prevalence of drinking problems amongst older people which has been underestimated. In the second half of the book empirical evidence is presented on the particular difficulties faced by ethnic, migrant and homeless groups and this emphasis on the centrality of social disadvantage leads on to a consideration of a specific social work role in the assessment and management of alcohol-related problems. Alcohol Problems in the Community is aimed at social work practitioners and students on prequalifying, qualifying and postqualifying social work courses, and it addresses key social work issues in relation to poverty, homelessness, discrimination and drinking problems.

Product Description: Alcohol-related problems are recognized as being near the very top of the world league table of health and social problems. "Risk and Resilience" looks at the issue of young adults who grew up in families where a parent, sometimes both, had a drinking problem.

Product Description: Drug Diplomacy is the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of the global drugs control regime. The book analyzes how the rules and regulations that encompass the drug question came to be framed. By examining the international historical aspects of the issue, the author addresses the many questions surrounding this global problem...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this volume, international contributors discuss the philosophical basis and history of harm reduction policies and examine their outcomes. They also cover controversial topics related to harm reduction especially conflicts between the public health system, where most programs are located, and a worldwide criminal justice system that further marginalizes drug users...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: tIn the last 10 years, many countries have seen a rapid expansion in their specific drug treatment services. This book describes the way in which 20 different countries worldwide have chosen to cope with the spread of illicit drugs and the expansion of services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Women and Substance Abuse: Gender Transparency you’ll see what can be done to aid women in some of the world’s hardest hit substance abuse hubs, including Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New Haven, Connecticut...read more

Product Description: First published in 1989 when the plight of children of alcoholics was initially brought to public attention, Working with Children of Alcoholics remains an essential tool for professionals that specifically addresses the needs of children growing up in alcoholic families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the recovery program, discusses its philosophy regarding a 'higher power,' and argues that it is not always as effective as proponents claim, and shows many--but not all--of the characteristics of a cult, especially in its institutional forms

Examination of literary texts and stories presented at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings reveals the nature and consequences of alcohol addiction.