The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping With the Grief, Stress and Anger That Trigger Addictive Behaviors
The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors
Most addictive behavior is rooted in some type of loss, be it the death of a loved one, coming to terms with limitations set by chronic health problems, or the end of a relationship. By turning to drugs and alcohol, people who have suffered a loss can numb their grief. In the process, they postpone their healing and can drive themselves further into addiction. “The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction” offers readers an effective program for working through their addiction and grief with cognitiv
Substance Abuse: Information for School Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, and Counselors (4th Edition)
Substance Abuse: Information for School Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, and Counselors (4th Edition)
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. In a reader-friendly style, the authors present balanced coverage of various treatment models as well as objective discussions of the controversies
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The Horrors of Cocaine Parts I and II: What Cocaine Made Me Do for Seven Years
The Horrors of Cocaine Parts I and II: What Cocaine Made Me Do For Seven Years
The Horror of cocaine chronicles the life of a Kansas City, Missouri woman addicted to cocaine for seven years.
After starting a cocaine habit at her job, a Missouri woman loses her job and her life of the American dream begins to unravel as she encounters crime, theft, prostitution, homelessness, prison, psych wards, hospitals and other activities as a result her addiction to crack cocaine. Part I in a series of an unfinished novel.
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12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery: Avoiding Relapse Through Self-Awareness and Right Action
12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery: Avoiding Relapse through Self-Awareness and Right Action
Are you sabotaging your own recovery? To grow in recovery, we must grow up emotionally. This means getting honest with ourselves and facing up to the self-defeating thoughts and actions that put our sobriety at risk. Although there are as many ways to mess up recovery as there are alcoholics and addicts, some general themes exist, which include: • confusing self-concern with selfishness
• not making amends
• using the program to try to become perfect
• not getting help for rel
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Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children
Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children
This is a self-help recovery guide for parents in the devastating situation of realizing that they are powerless to stop their children from self-destruction through drug and/or alcohol abuse. It is dedicated to letting parents know when it is time to start saving themselves from being dragged along to destruction as well, and to providing skills that prevent it. The book relies on spiritual but practical teachings and the message is for parents to attain a healthy balance in their lives through
Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Crack In America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in its historical context–as the latest in a long line of demonized drugs–and it examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right. Most important, it uses crack and the crack scare as windows
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Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction
Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction
Packed with the latest data, the powerful new Seventh Edition of Howard Abadinsky’s DRUG USE AND ABUSE: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION delivers a thorough, interdisciplinary survey of all aspects of drug and alcohol abuse. The text draws from the many disciplines of history, law, pharmacology, political science, social work, counseling, psychology, sociology, and criminal justice — resulting in the most comprehensive, authoritative resource available. Coverage includes the history of drugs, their
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Cocaine Addiction: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention
Cocaine Addiction: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention
“A clear and vivid picture of cocaine addiction: the drug, the progression of drug dependence, and most important, the outpatient treatment and recovery process.” —Sheila B. Blume, M.D., South Oaks Hospital, Amityville, New YorkCocaine is America’s fastest growing drug problem, especially since the appearance of crack. This concise, highly practical book is a detailed guide to clinical assessment and treatment of cocaine addiction, with emphasis on outpatient treatment and relapse prevention
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103 Group Activities and TIPS (Treatment Ideas & Practical Strategies)
103 Group Activities and TIPS (Treatment Ideas & Practical Strategies)
Fill your therapeutic toolbox with innovative, experiential exercises to enhance any group! Judith Belmont, M.S., has gathered this collection of The Therapeutic Toolbox: 103 Group Activities and T.I.P.S. (Treatment Ideas and Practical Strategies) from more than 30 years of clinical experience coupled with her passion for hands-on mental wellness education. These straightforward and universally relevant how to exercises are smartly spiral bound so you can easily make copies for your clients. All
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Love Me; a Look Into a Life of Abuse, Sex, Drugs and Bipolar Disorder
Love me; A look into a life of abuse, sex, drugs and bipolar disorder
How does an intelligent, beautiful young woman come to this end?
Kassi Visage-Lowe was born Kassi Lee Schlangen in Spokane, Washington, January 9, 1959. She was happy and excited about life, a little girl with promise for the future. Kassi was talented; she loved to sing and draw and express herself. As she grew up, she found that school was easy for her. Social contacts were not.
Kassi would speak up when challenged and fight you when wronged. She became combative and defe