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At last, a book for the families and friends of smokers. ... Read more

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I loved this book
I loved this book. I wrote it. And now it's being reprinted by Pathbinder books. If you have a smoker who smoked today, you will find great relief by reading this book! -- thanks Bear Gebhardt ... Read more

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The revised and updated edition of this reliable book includes the latest information about eating disorders as well as extensive resources for support. ... Read more

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useless
As someone who has an eating disorder, and has actually worked with Nancy, this book is absolutly useless.There are many other more helpful books out there, I would recommend something by Zerbe.

Saving Grace
Nancy Kolodny's reader-friendly writing style will be a welcome change for those who are seeking help but not finding it in typical scientific-type analyses.The letters from people suffering from Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia give the reader a marvellously comforting "you are notalone" feeling.

An absolutely must-read for anyone suffering from aneating disorder, or family and friends of same. ... Read more

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Foolisness - wasteful nonsense
If you are buying this book you are either
An alcoholic : this book is not for you
A family/spouse/loved one of an alcoholic : this book is not for you
OR
you have no drinking problem, and this book is not for you.
Gawd knows who this book IS for but I am yet to meet him/her. Its a waste of ink & paper ... Read more

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Learn how to get sober--and stay that way

Getting and staying sober provides a special set of challenges for professional people--physicians, lawyers, corporate CEOs, accountants, and others--who drive themselves to achieve and succeed in high-pressure surroundings. Managing Your Recovery from Addiction applies business approaches and ideas to the process of planning, implementing, and carrying out programs that really work for professionals in their first year of recovery. This unique self-help book provides guidance to impaired executives and professionals seeking recovery through inpatient and outpatient care, setting strategies for managing conflict, dealing with changing emotions and moods, and developing a solid spiritual program.

Managing Your Recovery from Addiction helps professionals develop both short- and long-term programs for dealing with the challenges of maintaining sobriety. The book is based on the authors' extensive experience treating impaired business personnel in a variety of settings, including the Caron Treatment Centers and Lifeworks of London, England, an internationally recognized addictions treatment center. Their rational, scientific approach complements ongoing counseling and other treatment approaches to help keep the professional's career on track, saving the recovering individual--and his or her employer--significant time and money due to lower productivity, arrested organizational development, absenteeism, and other problems associated with professional level addiction.

Topics examined in Managing Your Recovery from Addiction include:

a unique view of the 12 Steps for business personnel
the dynamics of managerial addiction
essential information to prevent relapse to active addiction
coping with relapse
basic tasks and fundamental recovery steps
setting and tracking recovery goals
recovery stages
10 tasks to recovery
conflict management strategies
spiritual development
addictions treatment
and much more!

Managing Your Recovery from Addiction concludes with the O'Connell Dysfunctional Attitude Survey (ODAS). This book is vital for recovering executives and professionals and is an important resource for addictions and mental health treatment agencies that serve a professional population. It's equally helpful for employee assistance program (EAP) personnel who regularly refer professionals for addictions treatment ... Read more

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A four-week step-by-step programme that provides all the motivation, advice and information needed to conquer the smoking habit. It looks at all the available quit-techniques and helps the reader find the most suitable for them. It debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about addiction and arms quitters to effect permanent change. ... Read more

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Providing practical, straightforward answers to common questions and concerns about alcoholism, this work incorporates current theories and research. Questions such as whether alcoholism runs in families, and how to know if someone is becoming dependent on drink, are answered. ... Read more

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This guide addresses many issues surrounding drug abuse. An overall understanding of the problems encountered by drug abuse, with advice on where to turn for help, is included in the text. Questions over the differences between "hard" and "soft" drugs and how to spot a drug user are included. ... Read more

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Two experts in the field of addiction and recovery address the genetic link of alcoholism within families, examining the risks and introducing a full prevention and treatment program for members of this high-risk group and their families.30,000 first printing. ... Read more

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Down to earth
This book is one of the best written for anyone who has any family history of alcoholism. It covers the material in a smooth non preaching manner. A delight to read. I've been recommending this book since the day it came out. Well done and well worth the time invested.
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Great Book
A must have for all who are trying to help a loved one quit abusing their self with drugs alcohol or anything else that's causing a problem in their life or others that care about them. The Bible for Interventions. ... Read more

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The first general consumer book ever on the powerful, award-winning, scientifically proven new system of intervention that is turning the recovery field on its head.

Historically there have been few options available for individuals seeking help for treatment-resistant loved ones suffering from substance abuse.

Coauthor Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) both improve the quality of their lives and to learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers. Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment. Called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), the program uses scientifically validated behavioral principles to reduce the loved one's substance use and to encourage him or her to seek treatment. Equally important, CRAFT also helps loved ones reduce personal stress and introduce meaningful, new sources of satisfaction into their life.

When compared to Johnson Institute and Al-Anon intervention techniques, CRAFT resulted in two and three times the number of loved ones willingly engaging in an alcohol treatment program. Compared to a 64% success rate for CRAFT, the Johnson Institute approach resulted in engaging only three out of ten drinkers and the Al-Anon approach engaged barely more than one out of ten drinkers.

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My favorite book for loved ones of people who use
This is a great book, based on very good research about what works with families and loved ones.Well written, it includes practical tips for how to respond based on empirically-based treatments, not clinical hunches.When someone asks me about how they should respond to their partner, spouse, friend, child, parent or coworker whose struggling with substances, this book is what I recommend.Indeed, I try to keep a few extra copies on hand that I can provide to people.

Get Your Love One Sober
I found this to be an excellent book to assist your love one to want sobriety or to be free of addiction.Actually, the title of the book is a misnomer because no one can get another person clean and sober.But you can set up the conditions, for which the book gives excellent examples, on how the substance abuser will want to stay sober. One example given, when the husband comes home late and has had too much to drink, the wife tells him she loves him but dosen't like his behavior when he is drinking so she's going out with her girl friend and shewill see him in the morning.That stops the endless arguments with someone who is drinking, resulting in the husband and wife not speaking.And the husband has to make his own supper and spend the night alone.

Most of the examples are husband and wife and involve alcohol, so if it is a different addiction, or not with a husband and wife (parent and son for example), one can easy translate the dynamics to a different situation.It can also be used with someone with a gambling addiction.It's all about approaching the problem in a more positive way.The substance abuser isn't feeling good about himself and he already knows how you feel,so lecturing or arguing with him or her isn't going to help the situation.In fact, it may make it worse, reinforcing negative behavior.

This is one of the best books I've read on on how to handle people you love that have a substance abuse or other addiction problem.I'd give it five stars.

AA without Jesus
This is an excellent resource for those who have a problem drinker in their lives, and who want to approach a change without relying on religion. With common sense and concrete plans, SOBER offers its readers a thoughtful and easy to follow program which can return sanity to an insane situation. Co-dependents are guided gently but firmly to the recognition of their own contribution to the problem, and given ways to make the drinker responsible for his/her own actions.

Get Your Loved One Sober
Highly recommend this book if you are struggling with this issue. It's not an easy read, and it's difficult to see yourself in some of the scenarios, but it provides good examples of ways to change the dynamics of a relationship. The most important message is to take care of yourself so you don't go down with the ship.

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The book was alright but it focused too much on relationships at the expense of other important elements. ... Read more

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Dual Diagnosis is a groundbreaking treatment approach for adolescents suffering from both chemical addiction and psychiatric disorders. Leave Me Alone! is the first book devoted to adolescent dual disorder illnesses--the behavior and emotional conditions that characterize them, their impact on families, available treatment options, and real-life examples of the treatment. ... Read more

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Make the journey from addiction to recovery From a dependence on narcotics, alcohol, or gambling, to food, tobacco, or sex, addiction is a life-draining condition that can seriously damage physical and mental health and destroy relationships. But whatever the cause, whatever the level, it is possible to free yourself from this debilitating disease and regain control of your life. Through recording, exploring, and expressing your thoughts and feelings about your experiences, as well as discovering invaluable recovery information and resources, this guided journal and workbook will help you reach a uniquely personal, healing understanding of your addiction, your life, and your choices. Above all, The Healing Journey Through Addiction will help you figure out for yourself how to best deal with your dependence. Acclaim for The Healing Journey Through Addiction … "Drs. Rich and Copans have written a comprehensive and creative book on recovery from addictive disorders, addressing the many emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual facets of recovery. This book is full of useful information and provides a sense of hope for change and growth. The journal exercises will increase self-awareness and understanding, which are so necessary for change to occur." — Dennis C. Daley, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Chief, Drug and Alcohol Services, Western Psychiatric Instiituute and Clinic Other books in The Healing Journey series include: The Healing Journey, 208 pp,, Paper (0-471-24712-X) The Healing Journey for Couples, 288 pp., Paper (0-471-25470-3) The Healing Journey Through Divorce, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29575-2) The Healing Journey Through Grief, 264 pp, Paper (0-471-29565-5) ... Read more

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Excellent book
This is a comprehensive and well written book. I found it useful and interesting, and I think a book that can be of use to many who are either experiencing a problem with an addiction or want to learn more aboutaddictions. It's also - and perhaps most important - a book intended to beused as a journal, so is also a very personal book that can help in manyways. Definitely recommended. ... Read more

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Title: Alcohol use and abuse.(Staying Healthy: How to keep your body working well)(Disease/Disorder overview)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Pamphlet by: National Institute on Aging (Pamphlet)
Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: NA

Article Type: Disease/Disorder overview

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