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At Risk in America
Wiley 2002; US$ 85.00This updated second edition of At Risk in America provides a detailed analysis of those key population groups most vulnerable to disease and injury in the United States today-including homeless persons, refugees and immigrants, people living with AIDS, alcohol and substance abusers, high-risk mothers and infants, victims of family or other violence,... more...
Temptation
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 12.99" This elegantly written and useful book . . . describes how, for millennia, human beings have struggled to rein in desire." -USA Today At a time when the fallout from reckless spending and unrestrained consumption is fueling a national malaise, Daniel Akst delivers a witty and comprehensive investigation of the central problem of our time:... more...
Music Therapy and Addictions
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2010; US$ 34.95This research-based, practical book demonstrates how music and music therapy can be applied in a variety of treatment settings to bring about therapeutic change. This book will be of interest to music therapists, substance abuse counsellors and anybody else interested in the relationship between music and addiction and the therapeutic use of music. more...
Illegal Leisure Revisited
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 42.50This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive ?recreational? drug use. This new edition revisits these original... more...
The Sophisticated Alcoholic
John Hunt Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99The book breaks all the rules about treating alcoholism. It?s not just about the stereotypical alcoholic but for the invisible majority, the middle class drinkers, the people who are in control of their lives but with one significant exception that they have already concluded that their use of alcohol is excessive. These are the silent majority... more...
Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone
Wiley 2010; US$ 20.95The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use. A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion of cannabis usage in relation to philosophical... more...
Heal Thyself
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 22.99Heal Thyself is the paperback edition of The End of My Addiction? a memoir of Ameisen?s struggle and a call to action. ?[This book is] the story of the dazzling discovery of a cure that could soon be within reach of all . . . you must read this book.? ?David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PHD, author of Healing Without Freud or Prozac and Anticancer... more...
The End of My Addiction
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008; US$ 7.99"After years of battling uncontrollable addiction, I have achieved the supposedly impossible: complete freedom from craving." Dr. Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist on the staff at one of America?s top teaching hospitals and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. He broke bones with no... more...
The End of My Addiction
Little, Brown Book Group 2010; US$ 22.64Dr Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. Fearing for his life, he immersed himself in AA, rehab and therapy. Nothing worked. So he did the only thing he could; he took his treatment into his own hands. Searching for a cure for his deadly disease, he happened... more...
The End of My Addiction
Little, Brown Book Group 2010; Not AvailableDr Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. Fearing for his life, he immersed himself in AA, rehab and therapy. Nothing worked. So he did the only thing he could; he took his treatment into his own hands. Searching for a cure for his deadly disease, he happened... more...









