Addictions

Is This For Real?
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
If you're like most people, when you hear that there's an addiction recovery program that will reduce substance cravings, detoxify your body and help heal the physiological damage done by drug and alcohol abuse-and do it all using only natural nutritional

Unrealistic Expectations
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
Weight gain is an evolutionary process. Some people call it creeping weight. The scale turtles inexorably upward - a tight skirt, a belt notch, a can't-zip-up-my-pants inch at a time. Yet you expect the scale to go down as rapidly as a high-speed

Wellness: The Missing Dimension in Recovery
The Wellness-Recovery Connection: Charting Your Pathway to Optimal Health While Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
by John Newport, Ph.D
As you may be aware you are not the only one who has ever hidden empty wine bottles from your spouse missed out on a good job due to failing a drug screening or fallen into a pattern of constantly covering up for the irresponsible behavior of an alcoholic

Let's Examine Some of the Myths about Substance Use
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
The primary reason my patients have been able to achieve such dramatic results using the Power Recovery Program is that I've developed a plan that avoids what I call the four myths about compulsive substance use. Let me dispel these myths right now.

Introduction
Playing It Straight: Personal Conversations on Recovery, Transformation and Success
by David Dodd
In this groundbreaking work, rock-n-roll writer and critic David Dodd presents some of the most powerful interviews with musicians, entertainers and athletes you will ever read.

A Revolution in the Treatment of Substance Use Problems
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
Do you fit the following profile? Esther W. was embarrassed the first time she came into my office. "I just can't seem to quit smoking," she said. "I know there are so many people out there with worse problems than I have I'm almost ashamed

How Can The Power Recovery Program Help Me?
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
The Power Recovery Program has one purpose: to help you, as a recovering substance user, improve your outcome, regardless of what else you do. By improve your outcome, I mean dramatically increase the odds that you'll be able to successfully recover from

Prescription Drug Use and Abuse : Complexities of Addiction
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
NIDA, along with several health organizations, has launched a national initiative to educate the public about the dangers of the non-medical use of prescription drugs, and the potential for abuse and addiction.

Why I Wrote This Book
Praying for Recovery, Psalms and Meditations
by Eli Ezry
It has been said that all addiction is search for God, though addicts unfortunately search in the wrong places - whether in alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, pornography, or work, or in another person, through codependency, sex, or love.

What's The Scientific Basis Of The Power Recovery Program?
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
The laws of biochemistry are absolute and unchanging, and we live according to them, whether we know it or not. By following my Power Recovery Program, you'll be getting yourself back in synch with what I refer to as your billion-year-old biochemistry.

12 Step Programs
AA to Z; An Addictionary of the 12-Step Culture
by Christopher Cavanaugh
Throughout the world today, more than two million alcoholics and hundreds of thousands of drug addicts, compulsive overeaters, sex addicts, compulsive gamblers, codependents, and other addicts abstain from their addiction, having found a new life

Step One
Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
by Melody Beattie
I thought I was in complete control of myself and others. I thought there was no circumstance too overwhelming, no feeling so great that I couldn't handle it by sheer force of willpower. I thought being in control was expected of me. It was my job.

Children Experiencing Addiction in the Family
by SAMHSA
Alcoholism and drug addiction is taking a toll on the American family. As a result, 8.3 million children in the United States, approximately 11 percent, live with at least one parent who is in need of treatment for alcohol- or drug-dependency.

Other Stories of Unmanageability
Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
by Melody Beattie
But I'm not in that much trouble, you might be thinking. My response is: good. You don't have to be in a lot of trouble to recognize unmanageability and begin recovering from codependency. It takes many of us much pain to become ready for recovery.

The Roots of Control
Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
by Melody Beattie
The belief that we have power over other people is a powerful belief - a destructive illusion that many of us learned in childhood. Listen to how some recovering people were trained to believe they had control over others.

Addiction, Power, and Powerlessness
Bridges to Recovery
by Jo-Ann Krestan
The ecology of addiction in a multicultural society requires us, as family therapists and addiction counselors, to re-examine two core ideas that have historically guided our treatment of addiction in the United States: power and powerlessness. Pride, fal

Introduction
Bridges to Recovery
by Jo-Ann Krestan
This book really began in the early nineties, on an icy, rain-soaked January day. I had been invited to the Roberto Clemente Guidance Center, in New York City, to teach a seminar on the family systems model of treatment first elaborated

Learning to Trust Your Story
Destination Joy : Moving Beyond Fear, Loss, and Trauma in Recovery
by Earnie Larsen
The only truth we will ever find is in our stories. We are our stories. Recovery demands we pay attention to what our stories have to tell us. Want the best possible insights on recovery? Look at your own life story.

Part One
A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey
Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety

Prologue
The Dark Night of Recovery: Conversations from the Bottom of the Bottle
by Edward Bear
Follow this inspiring work as it shows you what it feels like to hit the wall or hit bottom on a spiritual path, and find insight on how to move forward toward a better life. Probe the darkness, the despair and the joy that are inherent in the quest