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The Affliction of Addiction

Author : Adam McArnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692614501
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Affliction of Addiction written by Adam McArnold and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT (OR NEED) ANSWERS - Unlike any other book on the topic of addiction, this one is truly groundbreaking and amazingly unique. It is not so much about opinions or theories, as it is about the proper and accurate application of our new scientific evidence - for the benefits they hold. Through the examination of past and current scientific discoveries, we now hold the answers to all the perplexing and puzzling questions posed to us by chemical addictions; however, there still remains a resistance to its use in clinical practice. This book seeks to address this resistance by providing an understanding of addiction that is truly revolutionary. One that is founded in clinical study and cannot be denied on the basis of belief alone. It puts an end to all the confusion currently in the field and seeks to unite us all in the fight against chemical addictions. It is founded on the principle that through greater understanding, there will come better treatment outcomes; and thus, reduce the need for multiple treatment episodes. This is something the field of addiction is in dire need of, and now is the time to put it to use. This book contains vitally important explanations for people with addictions; explanations that all people need to know if the stigma of addiction is ever going to be extinguished. They are especially important to those with addictions because of the power they hold in their ability to reduce shame and guilt, conquer episodes of doubt, and provide a solid foundation for a complete, unwavering, and satisfying recovery. Therefore, if you are a person with an addiction; a person affected by the addiction of another; a clinician in the field; or a student in any field of human service, then this is the book for you. You need not look any further. The future is right here. WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY - FIND OUT WHAT WORKS!

The Gift of Addiction

Author : Sherry Burditt RN HN-BC
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982207752
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Addiction written by Sherry Burditt RN HN-BC and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if your greatest affliction—your addiction—has really been your greatest gift? The Gift of Addiction offers you a new understanding of how addiction operates, why you are walking its path, and the purpose for it in your life, providing you with the comfort of knowing that you possess all the necessary components to arrive at a place where you are able to create a life beyond your wildest dreams. Within these pages you will discover the vast spiritual intelligence behind the “disease” yet to be understood in our society, and author Sherry Burditt, RN, HN-BC, explains how our current addictions epidemic is the precursor to a new discovery and human transformation. Sherry Burditt has truly given us an important gift. From cover to cover, The Gift of Addiction contains a vast amount of practical, beneficial, and illuminating information with a storyteller’s grace and a clinician’s insight. It has been masterfully researched, eloquently written, and deeply felt. —Tina Haney, RN, BSN The Gift of Addiction offers an enlightened view of healing addiction through a deep understanding of the seven energy centers in the spine—the chakras. Sherry offers practical techniques that holistically incorporate healing of mind, body, and spirit. She provides a spiritual, “heart-based” approach that aligns us to the invincible soul within, and reawakens our knowing that our lives are divinely guided, guarded, and protected by the God of our understanding. —Patricia Fleming, CAcT, RYT, CMT, CRT

Four Grams of Affliction

Author : Patricia Gunn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978422391
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Four Grams of Affliction written by Patricia Gunn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fearless story of author Patricia Gunn. The mission of this book is to inspire other victims of sexual trauma to find the valor to fight another day. As survivors, we too can reclaim our lives and create a hopeful future. Gunn became a slave to alcohol and drugs at an early age and suffered a string of sexual traumas. Her life spiraled out of control. This two-headed monster of addiction and trauma propelled Gunn to dark, jarring places that she didn't even know existed. While Four Grams of Affliction explores the many trips to hell that Gunn travelled, it also studies the workings of the human brain and how it operates as a powerful tool. And despite the agony and the pain, we come to realize that even the scathed eye can see a flicker of light in the prevailing darkness. Alcohol, drugs, and trauma claim lives every day. This book is a true testament to hope and salvation. The human spirit can wander and get lost; however, inner-peace is obtainable if you seek it out. Gunn has found that the solution to these problems lives outside of us. As the author discovered, giving back to victims of trauma and addiction often drives the soul into a new found sense of purpose.

Addiction

Author : Chris Chandler
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526465493
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Addiction written by Chris Chandler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addiction: A biopsychosocial perspective provides students with an evidence-based approach to addiction whilst covering a broad range of topics, critical perspectives and influential theories in addiction. With chapters discussing key theories, psychological, biological and societal aspects of addiction, this is a highly accessible and essential resource for students and researchers that: Offers an evidence-based discussion of addiction Addresses the neuroscience and psychology of addiction Provides a critical account of the science and research in addiction Includes chapter overviews and summaries, learning aims and case studies to help students in their study

Pain Pill Addiction

Author : Jana Burson
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608446980
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Pain Pill Addiction written by Jana Burson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you or a loved one addicted to pain pills? Are you eager to know more about which treatments work, and which don't? Or are you a concerned citizen, worried by the numbers of young adults addicted to prescription pain pills? Do you want to know more about opioid addiction, and what communities can do to prevent and treat this affliction? This book contains all the information you need to answer these questions. Many of the two million prescription pain pill addicts in the U.S. are searching for a way to recover from the misery of their addiction These people may have developed addiction after being prescribed pain pills for medical reasons. Others experimented with pain pills out of curiosity, or to get high, but unintentionally became addicted. No matter how their addiction started, they want to stop. Treatment centers who specialize in providing month-long inpatient treatment for this addiction may not mention outpatient options available to addicts who can't, or won't, go to an inpatient program. For these patients, medically-assisted treatment with methadone or buprenorphine (Suboxone) can be life saving. This book describes how and why treatment with these medications works, and the advantages and disadvantages of these medications.

Thinking Simply About Addiction

Author : Richard Sandor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101022264
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Simply About Addiction written by Richard Sandor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound yet practical guide to understanding addiction and recovery from an authority on the subject. No social problem today causes greater confusion than addiction. Whatever form it takes — alcohol, heroin, cocaine, nicotine, etc. — it tears apart homes and relationships, destroys careers and futures, and leaves loved ones asking: Why couldn't he stop once and for all? Or "get better"? Or control himself? Despite everything that's been said and written, many people remain deeply confounded about these problems. The addiction-treatment field itself is in a state of civil war because there is no consensus on what addiction is, much less what to do about it. Based on years of hard-won experience by a preeminent specialist in addictive behavior, Thinking Simply About Addiction explains the core truth of addiction: It is not a neurosis, a physical malady, a behavioral choice, or, in the narrowest sense, a moral failure. It is an automatism — an involuntary, non-stoppable behavior that once triggered leaves the addict powerless. It is a human problem and a part of human nature. As such, it is something that we all experience. In four to-the-point chapters, Thinking Simply About Addiction rises above the noise level and provides real-world help and new ways of thinking for addicts and those who care for them. Its insights are so profoundly clear and sensible that many readers will be able to say: Finally, someone gets it.

The Biology of Desire

Author : Marc Lewis
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610394380
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Desire written by Marc Lewis and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. As a result, most treatment based on the disease model fails. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery. This is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.

Clean

Author : David Sheff
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054784865X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Clean written by David Sheff and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the #1 "New York Times"-bestseller "Beautiful Boy" offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with--and triumphs over--drug abuse.

Drugs and the Future

Author : David J. Nutt
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080467740
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Drugs and the Future written by David J. Nutt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drugs and the Future presents 13 reviews collected to present the new advances in all areas of addiction research, including knowledge gained from mapping the human genome, the improved understanding of brain pathways and functions that are stimulated by addictive drugs, experimental and clinical psychology approaches to addiction and treatment, as well as both ethical considerations and social policy. The book also includes chapters on the history of addictive substances and some personal narratives of addiction. Introduced by Sir David King, Science Advisory to the UK Government and head of the Office of Science and Technology, and Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the USA, the book uniquely covers the full range of disciplines which can provide insight into the future of addiction, from genetics to the humanities. Written for a scientific audience, it is also applicable to non-specialists as well. Provides an unique overview of what we know about addiction, and how scientific knowledge can and should be applied in the societal, ethical, and political context Applies the state-of-the-art research in fields such as Genomics, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Social Policy and Ethics to addiction research Includes a preface by Sir David King, Science Advisory to the UK Government and head of the Office of Science and Technology, and in introduction by Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the USA

The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery

Author : Lawrence Peltz, MD
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590309189
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery written by Lawrence Peltz, MD and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness, the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is, is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. Because at the heart of addiction is the fear of painful emotional states, addicts compulsively seek drugs and alcohol to avoid or escape emotional pain. Mindfulness, on the other hand, helps us develop greater acceptance and ease with life’s challenges, as well as greater self-compassion. Here, Dr. Lawrence Peltz, who has worked as an addiction psychiatrist for nearly three decades, draws from his clinical experience and on the techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to explain the fundamental dynamics of addiction and the stages of the recovery process, and also gives us specific mindfulness exercises to support recovery.

Addiction and Choice

Author : Nick Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198727224
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Addiction and Choice written by Nick Heather and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views on addiction are often polarised - either addiction is a matter of choice, or addicts simply can't help themselves. But perhaps addiction falls between the two? This book contains views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and the law exploring this middle ground between free choice and no choice.

Knowing Affliction and Doing Recovery

Author : John Baldasare
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541200760
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Affliction and Doing Recovery written by John Baldasare and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recovery process is readily accessed with focused effort and commitment to action around the five principles which bring complete and lasting healing to the sick addict. These "Big Five Values" are Sobriety, Love, Unity, Growth, and Spirituality (SLUGS). This book is designed to promote and celebrate this ultimate solution to addiction. Many lives have been lost and many more can be saved with the right focused effort and consistent message. SLUGS...not drugs SLUGS...The Miracle of Recovery! John Baldasare has a Bachelors in Sociology and a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and has worked as a therapist, manager, and executive director in addictions, mental health, and trauma programs for over 40 years. He has directed treatment services in Ohio, Arizona, Virginia, and South Carolina. His website is www.FatherJohnBaldy.com, with Facebook pages "SLUGSociety" and "Dayton Model of Recovery." He currently provides consultation and training services, as well as public speaking.

Understanding Addiction

Author : Dr Charles Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737235200
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Addiction written by Dr Charles Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Understanding Addiction, doctors Smith and Hunt bring an important perspective to the subject of addiction

Reverentially Turning to God from Idols Devotional

Author : Gregory L. Madison
Publisher : The Awe Factory
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reverentially Turning to God from Idols Devotional written by Gregory L. Madison and published by The Awe Factory. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idols of addiction must be dealt with through reverence for God just as they are chosen through our irreverence. Reverentially Turning to God from Idols is 365-day reading. It is a combination of Addiction: A Tug of War, Quality Sobriety (Volumes 1-5), Turning to God from Idols, as well as a few other works by Gregory Madison. The epitome of reverencing God is the mind of Christ. It is impossible for someone abiding in Christ to relapse!

Narratives of Addiction

Author : Kevin McCarron
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030884619
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Addiction written by Kevin McCarron and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received wisdom, that drug addiction and alcoholism are undoubtedly evidence of individual moral flaws. However, the sense of morality that underlies this book is completely severed from Christianity. Instead, it is influenced in particular by the writings of the nineteenth-century German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Frederick Nietzsche, both of whom insisted that a genuine morality was actually incompatible with Christianity. The sequence of chapters moves from addictions on the streets, into rehab clinics, and finally into the meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. This is the first book to argue that the search for pleasure drives alcoholism and drug addiction and not the “numbing of pain”. Throughout the book I reject the claims of the medical profession, as embodied by the American Medical Association, that drug addiction and alcoholism are diseases, and further argue that they do not have the authority to tell hundreds of millions of Americans that addiction is not a moral failing. I also query throughout the book the claims of neuroscience, psychology, and the social sciences that addictions to alcohol and drugs are attributable to causes that their specific disciplines are best suited to understand. I argue that there is nothing complex about addiction: it is a simple behavioural disorder. The language routinely employed to discuss addiction is similarly not complex, just confused, and so it is also the rhetoric of addiction discourse, especially its use of simile, metaphor and euphemism, that this book evaluates.

An Anatomy of Addiction

Author : Howard Markel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307379817
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book An Anatomy of Addiction written by Howard Markel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon—showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine. When Freud and Halsted began their experiments with cocaine in the 1880s, neither they, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drug's potential to dominate and endanger their lives. An Anatomy of Addiction tells the tragic and heroic story of each man, accidentally struck down in his prime by an insidious malady: tragic because of the time, relationships, and health cocaine forced each to squander; heroic in the intense battle each man waged to overcome his affliction. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it—or because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery. Here is the full story, long overlooked, told in its rich historical context.

The Disease of More

Author : Eleanor R
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981581835
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The Disease of More written by Eleanor R and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disease of More chronicles the childhood, young adulthood and current life experiences of Eleanor R., a woman who overcame great odds to recover from the diseases of alcoholism and food addiction. It is the true story of one woman's journey toward becoming the person she always wanted to be, despite her disadvantaged upbringing and her early affliction with addictions that took her to places of extreme shame and humiliation. Eleanor is every woman who struggles with self medication through food, alcohol and things. She is a mother, a wife, an influential public servant in one of the largest states in the nation, but still, after 25 years, she must get up each day and be vigilant against slipping back into cravings and her fears that she does not have enough. This book is an inspiring story of surrender and ultimate victory. Every reader will discover nuggets of Eleanor's hard-won wisdom that drive home the truth of her journey and the triumph of her courage.