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Eleanor Agnew, Sharon Robideaux My Mama's Waltz : A Book for Daughters of Alcoholic Mothers
Nancy Appleton, Ph.D. Lick The Sugar Habit : A Life-Saving Guide
"Sugar is implicated in a long chain of events in the body that leads to weight gain. The minerals in the body become unbalanced, enzymes don't function correctly, food dos not digest properly, and allergies occur. Allergies cause addiction, addiction causes cravings, and overeating is the result." ...
"Homeostasis is the wonderful balance in the body. When the body is in homeostatsis it is healing. When it is out of homeostasis, through life's indiscretions, it is on the degenerative disease path. Disease is that simple." "Foods can definitely change how you function, how you think, and how you feel. Sugar is as addictive as any drug."Ellen Bass, Laura Davis. The Courage to Heal : A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Roy F. Baumeister, PhD, et al. Losing Control: How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation
People the world over suffer from the inability to control their finances, their weight, their emotions, their cravings for drugs, their sexual impulses, and more. The United States in particular is regarded by some observers as a society addicted to addition. Therapy and support groups have proliferated not only for alcoholics and drug abusers but for all kinds of impulse control, from gambling to eating chocolate. Common to all of these disorders is a failure of self-regulation, otherwise known as "self-control."
The consequences of these self-control problems go beyond individuals to affect family members and society at large. In Losing Control, the authors provide a single reference source with comprehensive information on general patterns of self-regulation failure across contexts, research findings on specific self-control disorders, and commentary on the clinical and social aspects of self-regulation failure. Self-control is discussed in relation to what the "self" is, and the cognitive, motivational, and emotional factors that impinge on one's ability to control one's "self."Edward Blomgren. Conquer Tobacco Naturally: Quit Tobacco in 12 Weeks or Less, Using Mind-Body and Naturopathic Medicine
Stephanie Brown, et al. A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety, and Radical Transformation
Stephanie Brown, et al. The Family Recovery Guide: A Map for Healthy Growth
Hyla Cass, M.D. and Patrick Holford. Natural Highs
There are potent natural substances -- herbs, amino acids, nutritional supplements and foods -- that can significantly elevate mood, tame stress, and repair memory in ways that work in harmony with your body's own chemistry. This book presents everything from simple solutions to more comprehensive programs (such as those to overcome addictions) combining supplements and mind-body techniques... quotes from hylacass.comSusan Cheever. My Name Is Bill : Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
Susan Cheever. Note Found in a Bottle
Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol.Addressing for the first time the profound effects that alcohol had on her life, in shaping of her relationships with men and in influencing her as a writer, Susan Cheever delivers an elegant memoir of clear-eyed candor and unsettling immediacy. She tells of her childhood obsession with the niceties of cocktails and all that they implied -- sociability, sophistication, status; of college days spent drinking beer and cheap wine; of her three failed marriages, in which alcohol was the inescapable component, of a way of life that brought her perilously close to the edge.
At once devastating and inspiring, Note Found in a Bottle offers a startlingly intimate portrait of the alcoholic's life -- and of the corageous journey to recovery. [amazon.com]
James Claiborn Ph.D., Cherry Pedrick R.N. The Habit Change Workbook
Robert H. Coombs. Addiction Recovery Tools: A Practical Handbook
Robert H. Coombs. Drug-Impaired Professionals
Reviewer: A reader: The abuse of drugs, legal and illegal, by professionals has been a subject little discussed within the hearing of outsiders. Coombs breaks the silence to quite rightly view addiction as an occupational hazard, detailing the extraordinary stresses, ready access, and high performance expectations among contributing factors, as well as emotional elements and a surprising degree of naivete. He examines the dynamics of addiction; the vulnerabilities and developmental stages, and discusses the recovery tools available to break free.Robert H. Coombs, Douglas Ziedonis. Handbook on Drug Abuse Prevention
Robert H. Coombs. The Family Context of Adolescent Drug Use
Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. Awakening Your Sexuality: A Guide for Recovering Women
Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. A Woman's Journal : Helping Women Recover
Tian Dayton, PhD. Trauma and Addiction : Ending the Cycyle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy
"For the past decade, author Tian Dayton has been researching trauma and addiction, and how psychodrama (or sociometry group psychotherapy) can be used in their treatment. Since trauma responses are stored in the body, a method of therapy that engages the body through role play can be more effective in accessing the full complement of trauma-related memories. This latest book identifies the interconnection of trauma and addictive behavior, and shows why they can become an unending cycle."Patt Denning, et al. Over the Influence : The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol
James Desena, et al. Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug & Recovery Habits: An Empowering Alternative to AA and 12-Step Treatment
Lance M. Dodes, MD The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors
Jerry Dorsman. How to Quit Drinking Without AA
Mitchell Earleywine. Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence
Mitch Earlywine is a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, where he teaches "the Drug Class." In Understanding Marijuana he attempts "a presentation of a vast literature for those who prefer to think for themselves rather than be told what to think." That's a refreshing strategy in an emotional and political arena that has often bred less-than-objective reviews and outright propaganda. Throughout this well-documented book, Earlywine summarizes scientific information, historical experiences and controversies in a concise, conversational style. > from review by Steve Heilig, MPHCaryl Ehrlich. Conquer Your Food Addiction
Thinking realistically and positively may be tricky at the beginning because you've been thinking unrealistically and negatively for a long time. It takes practice and perseverance to change your attitude, but you will succeed. Perhaps not immediately. Perhaps one baby-step at a time. Perhaps 10,000 attempts later. But, as Georgia O‚Keefe said, "You musn't even think you won't succeed." [from the book]Michael Eigen. Toxic Nourishment
My book, Toxic Nourishment, involves "addiction" to a fusion of emotional toxins with whatever one can manage for nourishment, eeking out what nourishment one can from emotional toxins (which is an addiction that becomes a basis for addictions). author Michael Eigen - posted on list: Psyche Matters: www.psychematters.comJon Elster Addiction : Entries and Exits
[Book News:] "Nine chapters by multidisciplinary contributors from the US and Oslo, Norway offer insights into the controversies over whether addicts have control over their behavior, the extent to which treatment programs offer hope for recovery, and what causes relapses."Jon Elster Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior
"Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely linked to cognition and culture. They thus provide the ideal vehicle for Jon Elster''s study of the interrelation between three explanatory approaches to behavior: neurobiology, culture, and choice. The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences." Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.Anne M. Fletcher. Sober for Good
Anne M. Fletcher resolved her own drinking problem without Alcoholics Anonymous and was fascinated by other people who had found alternative methods to stop drinking.David R. Ford, Tod H. Mikuriya. Marijuana: Not Guilty As Charged
James Frey. A Million Little Pieces
An Oprah's Book Club selection - she said on her show that she stayed up late two nights in a row to finish reading it. "It's taking us right to the edge. It's a gut-wrenching memoir that is raw and it's so real. It's a wild ride through addiction and rehab that has been called electrifying, intense, mesmerizing and even gruesome."..
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Adam Gaynor. Portraits of Recovery ".. candidly depicts individuals recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. These touching testimonies of lives transformed through hope and living clean and sober lifestyles, was created to both inspire faith in those struggling with addiction, as well as those who are not."
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Marianne Gilliam. How Alcoholics Anonymous Failed Me: My Personal Journey to Sobriety through Self-empowerment
"Yes, Gilliam's upset with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which she feels let her down during her 10-year struggle against alcohol, drugs, and food. Among AA's many problems, in Gilliam's opinion, is that it creates a "cultlike" dependency in its adherents. That's because AA convinces them that addictions are diseases and, as such, completely beyond their control. But this only compounded Gilliam's difficulties, she concludes, because her central problem was, in fact, a general feeling of powerlessness. Yes, she reined in her addictions while in AA - but out of feelings of fear and guilt. Yet this isn't a rant against AA. Gilliam's point is that focusing on self-empowerment and self-control saved her and may save others. AA is unquestionably the leader in addiction treatment. But with fully seventy percent of AA participants returning to drugs or alcohol, surely there's room for another point of view?"Robert Granfield, William Cloud. Coming Clean : Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment
Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer. Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience, Including Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Anais Nin, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, Carrie Fisher, and Others
[from Booklist review:] "The literature of drug-taking usually seems entirely masculine, from De Quincey and Coleridge down to Kerouac and Leary. This substantial anthology demonstrates that women have written about the ecstactic and the dangerous aspects of drug-taking, too... This extensive revision of Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady (1982) could provoke controversy, for its many self-reports by gifted women note positive as well as appallingly negative drug experiences." // Grace Slick, Lead Singer of Jefferson Airplane: "A fascinating book. I didn't realize I had so many sisters of the extreme." Maya Angelou: "Smoking grass eased the strain for me."James Hughes. Altered States: Creativity Under the Influence
The book considers how the components of creativity--awareness, energy, loss of self-consciousness--are affected by stimuli to the brain such as meditative rituals, alcohol, and drugs. The impact of altered states on Samuel Coleridge, William Faulkner, Jackson Pollock, and other creative giants is explored, as is the role drugs play in group creativity--jazz, blues music, experimental theater, film. Also discussed are pop icons such as Little Richard, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, and Jerry Garcia and the visionary, surreal quality often associated with their music, describing ecstatic experience or demonic worlds. [Amazon.com review]David L. Johnson, Ph.D. and Carole A. Johnson Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for Life Changes - A Powerful, Skills-Based Program and Creative, Self-Instructional Approach to Cessation Behavior
"This self-instructional workbook and tape program focuses on and underscores the importance of CONFIDENCE, COMMITMENT, COMPETENCE, and CREATIVITY. These four, interrelated skills.. are of critical importance to success with cessation and future disinterest in tobacco and nicotine products. The workbook aims to enhance awareness of these resources and skills through the use of three, key PRINCIPLES, worksheet exercises, and a core set of effective cessation strategies, techniques, and options."Marc F. Kern, PhD. Take Control Now
By practicing unhealthy lifestyle management habits either you or someone you love has gotten into a difficult and unpleasant place in life. This could center around one bad habit or a series of bad habits which include: smoking tobacco or marijuana, poor stress reduction skills, overeating, compulsive shopping, addictive depression, being a workaholic, constant self doubting, free-floating fear and anxiety, drinking too much on a regular basis, not following your doctor's advice, procrastination, misuse of prescription medication, lack of exercise, use of street drugs, poor work habits, hypochondria, poor study habits, consistent laziness, addiction to television, being a couch potato, gambling too much, sexual harassment, the compulsive use of pornography, and on and on. There are two types of unhealthy habits: the "YES" bad habits and the "NOT" bad habits. Both types are motivated by avoidance of uncomfortable feelings. -- excerpt from Chapter OneMarc F. Kern, PhD is Founder and Director of Addiction Alternatives, a specialized program dedicated solely to assisting individuals self-manage destructive habits such as problem drinking, drug abuse and other excessive behaviors.
>> free download of Chapter 1Marc F. Kern, PhD, et al. Responsible Drinking: A Moderation Management Approach for Problem Drinkers
[Publisher] This revolutionary workbook by the leading voices of the Moderation Management treatment approach is based on the extensive scientific literature that supprts moderation as a resolution for drinking problems. It uses research-based techniques to help readers discover whether they are a problem drinker or an alchoholic. The former are then helped to make an informed decision about whether to pursue moderation over abstinence, and go on to define goals specific to their needs, examine the negative effects of their alchohol use, identify their own triggers, and learn to take control of their behavior.Christopher Kilham. Psyche Delicacies: Coffee, Chocolate, Chiles, Kava, and Cannabis, and Why They're Good for You
Joyce H. Lowinson, Robert B. Millman et al. Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook
Joan Matthews-Larson, Ph.D. Seven Weeks to Sobriety : The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition
Harvey Milkman. Craving for Ecstasy : How Our Passions Become Addictions and What We Can Do About Them
"This book is a must for anyone who wants to understand the physiological process involved in addiction and compulsive behavior. The biggest revelation of this book is that all addictions whether they are substance or behavior based such as gambling, are caused by natural neurochemicals in the brain. In an era when addiction is running rampant. When you can walk into any convenience store and acquire nicotine, alcohol, junk food, lottery tickets and pornography. Harvey Milkman and Stanley Sunderwirth discuss more positive ways of achieving a natural high such as involvement in the arts. It's about changing negative behaviors that destroy life into positive ones that add to life." [Reviewer: Jon Schneider- Producer: A Drug Called Pornography]Mary O'Malley. The Gift of Our Compulsions: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing
Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks says:
"Allow this book to be a companion and compassionate guide on your journey of awakening and to help you discover the perfection that is already here..."Larry Dossy, M.D., author of Healing words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine; Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Beyond the Body says:
"Ancient wisdom tells us that the best solution to a problem is sometimes to relax into it rather than struggle and fight. This is the essential insight Mary O'Malley brings to the challenges of compulsive behaviors.Alan Cohen, spiritual teacher and author of The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Looking in For Number One, Wisdom of the Heart, Mr. Everit's Secret, and many other inspiring books says: "Finally, a conscious, loving, and insightful way to understand and deal with our compulsions. Mary O'Malley has done her homework and penetrated to the heart of healing behaviors that many of us find overwhelming...."
> quotes from author site maryomalley.com
Jim Orford. Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of AddictionsJudith Orloff, MD. Positive Energy : 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear intoVibrance, Strength & Love
Stanton Peele. Diseasing of America : How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control
Stanton Peele. The Meaning of Addiction : An Unconventional View
Stanton Peele, PhD, JD. 7 Tools to Beat Addiction
[Publishers Weekly:] In this straightforward self-help guide, psychologist and addiction therapist Peele (The Truth about Addiction and Recovery) argues that, contrary to popular belief, the best way to overcome addiction is not through treatment in rehab centers or in formal groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, but rather through self-efficacy and self-reliance. "Successful therapies," he writes, "place the responsibility for changing your addictive behavior on you."Drew Pinsky. Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
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Poor eating and sleeping habits due to minimizing needs. Neglecting hygiene and nutrition. Lack of physical activity. Psychotropic drugs for mental stimulation and escape, narcotics for anxiety. Type
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Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D. Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians..
[Amazon.com:] "Being a workaholic doesn't just mean being a hard worker, says Robinson, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of North Carolina who has been studying people's work habits for years. It means you've got a progressively worsening addiction like any other, in which work becomes the substance you use in an attempt to meet your unconscious psychological needs. Robinson calls workaholism the "best-dressed addiction," because it's often rewarded--at least in the short term--and is seen as a positive attribute by people who don't understand the destruction it can cause."Ronald A. Ruden, Marcia Byalick. The Craving Brain : The Biobalance Approach to Controlling Addiction
Billie J. Sahley, Ph.D. and Kathy Birkner. Breaking Your Prescribed Addiction: With Amino Acids and Nutrient Therapy
"Want to come off tranquilizers, antidepressants, anti-anxiety, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, or other addictive substances? Finally, a step-by-step guide for withdrawal and maintenance from prescription meds or addictive substances. Withdrawal schedules and amino acid and nutrient replacement programs included. Learn what amino acids and nutrients and amounts to use to withdraw and maintain safely, and why."
> description from Alternative Health Products & Books page of Pain & Stress Center site> see amino acid formulations & herbal supplements for anxiety relief on page anxiety relief : sites
Jeffrey Schaler, Phd. Addiction Is a ChoiceSusan Shapiro. Lighting Up : How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex
As a follow-up to her memoir Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Shapiro turns from romantic train wrecks to nicotine addiction. Her struggle to end a two-pack-a-day problem will be familiar to anyone who's tried to kick the habit; her version of suffering includes eating too many lollipops, yelling at her husband and encountering writer's block. To make quitting easier, Shapiro visits a psychologist who specializes in addictions and finds herself both repulsed and drawn to his aggressive style, which involves following his advice without question for a year. ... Shapiro's wit and honesty elevate the book, and her sessions with her cool, intelligent psychologist capture all that's both absurd and mundane about such encounters. [Publishers Weekly]Linda C. Sobell, et al. Promoting Self-Change from Problem Substance Use:
Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention and Treatment
Presents the process of self-change from several different perspectives: environmental, cross-cultural, prevention, and intervention at societal and individual levels. Includes strategies for how healthcare practitioners and government policy makers can aid and foster self-change.Mark B. Sobell, Linda C. Sobell. Problem Drinkers: Guided Self-Change Treatment
Book News review: Explains a client-centered approach based on motivational intervention by which clinicians can help people who are not dependent on alcohol, but have experienced some life problems due to their drinking. Traces the steps of implementation, providing case studies. Also includes handouts that can be photocopied...Gary Stromberg, Jane Merrill. The Harder They Fall : Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery
"As an alumni of Hazelden with a proud and grateful 18 years of sobriety, I will never forget just how hard I fell and how Hazelden's hot seat afforded me the opportunity to take a rigorous and hard look at my own behaviors around this disease called addiction. My own disease would like to tell you that my "isms" are now my "wasms". But as this book reads, it's an ongoing process that leads to the sweetest spirituality. My hat's off and great Kudos to those that share in their story like it is, for those of us that still need to hear it." Steven TylerOther contributors include comedians Richard Pryor and John Lewis, musicians Grace Slick, Dr. John, and Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night), actors Malcolm McDowell and Mariette Hartley, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright, writer Anne Lamott, and athletes Doc Ellis and Gerry Cooney... In this modern-day version of the 1980s New York Times best-seller The Courage to Change, the famous people profiled have climbed out from the devastation of addiction to lead lives of extraordinary accomplishment.
Jacob Sullum. Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use
After decades of a futile war on drugs, Saying Yes makes public what many Americans discuss only in private: Drug use as it is described by politicians and propagandists is dramatically different from drug use as it is experienced by the silent majority of users--the decent people who, despite their politically incorrect choice of intoxicants, lead productive and fulfilling lives. In Saying Yes, Jacob Sullum argues that illegal drug use should be viewed the same way as drinking, with an emphasis on temperance rather than abstinence. Sullum rejects the idea that there is something inherently wrong with using chemicals to alter one's mood or mind. He uses compelling stories about real people to illustrate the point that there is such a thing as responsible drug use. [from Reason magazine site reason.com]Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. The Real 13th Step : How to discover Confidence, Self-Reliance, and Independence beyond the 12-Step Programs
The Real Thirteenth Step is a powerful exercise and information-packed manual to accompany the journey of people in recovery. Readers will learn how to develop the three central skills of true autonomy -- risk taking, problem solving, and coping with failure -- and how to apply them to every aspect of their lives: relationships, work, decision-making, stress, and the temptations of addiction.
> from author site tinatessina.comGeorge E. Vaillant. The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
Judith Wright. There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love, and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions
[excerpt:] "Soft addictions can be habits, compulsive behaviors, or recurring moods or thought patterns. Their essential defining quality is that they satisfy a surface want but ignore or block the satisfaction of a deeper need. They numb us to feelings and spiritual awareness by substituting a superficial high, or a sense of activity, for genuine feeling or accomplishment. Many soft addictions involve necessary behaviors like eating, reading, and sleeping. They become soft addictions when we overdo them and when they are used for more than their intended purpose. Soft addictions, unlike hard ones such as drugs and alcohol, are seductive in their softness. E-mailing, shopping, and talking on the phone seem like perfectly harmless, pleasurable activities while we're engaged in them. When we realize how much time and energy we devote to them, however, we can see how they compromise the quality of our lives."
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Getting clean was the hardest thing that Elizabeth Wurtzel has ever done. She spent four months in rehab and then six more months in an outpatient program. After that, she began attending a lot of AA and NA meetings. "People who just do their 28 days are going to be back in rehab again," declares the author... And, she adds, "The hardest part of getting clean was that they take away the one thing that is your only love."
[etonline.com February 15, 2002]
*books by Elizabeth Wurtzel:***More, Now, Again : A Memoir of Addiction****Prozac Nation
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