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Drug Addiction & Substance Abuse

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  • Secret Keepingby John Howard Prin

    New World Library 2010; US$ 18.95

    This book explores how to break the secret-keeping habit and get the help and support needed to overcome addiction, rebuild self-esteem, and live honestly. more...

  • Willpower Is Not Enoughby Arnold M. Washton

    HarperCollins 2013; US$ 12.99

    Many people think that what the addict needs is willpower, but nothing could be further from the truth: When a person has already lost control over a drug or activity, attempts to control its use almost never work. Because the source of addiction isn't the drug or activity itself but a desire for a mood changer, successful recovery means ultimately... more...

  • Willpower Is Not Enoughby Arnold M. Washton

    HarperCollins 2013; Not Available

    Many people think that what the addict needs is willpower, but nothing could be further from the truth: When a person has already lost control over a drug or activity, attempts to control its use almost never work. Because the source of addiction isn't the drug or activity itself but a desire for a mood changer, successful recovery means ultimately... more...

  • Soul Recoveryby Ester Nicholson

    Hay House, Inc. 2013; US$ 15.95

    Ester Nicholson ’s foundational process that she’s termed Soul Recovery unlocks the code of dependence as it manifests in substance, relationship, and behavioral addictions, among others. As you’re guided through a 12-week process of study and practice, the author courageously shares her inspiring journey that has ultimately led to a... more...

  • The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973by Kathleen J. Frydl

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 28.00

    Examines how and why the US government went from regulating illicit drug traffic and consumption to declaring war on both. more...

  • Drinkingby Caroline Knapp

    Random House Publishing Group 1999; US$ 16.00

    Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights... more...

  • A Piece of Cakeby Cupcake Brown

    Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 15.00

    Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called... more...

  • The Word As Scalpelby Samuel W. Bloom

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 60.00

    A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel. In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human relations, are so potent for harm, how equally powerful... more...

  • Preventing Harmful Substance Useby Tim Stockwell; Paul Gruenewald; John Toumbourou; Wendy Loxley

    Wiley 2005; US$ 202.95

    The prevention of harm from drug use, both legal and illegal, is a major concern to government departments and clinicians throughout the world. Recently, much new research has been conducted regarding global levels and patterns of drug-related harm, on common risk factors with other social problems (e.g. mental health, crime) and on the effectiveness... more...

  • Substance Useby B. Lindgren; M. Grossman

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 126.00

    Aims to cover issues pertaining to individual behavior, social interactions, markets, and politics. This volume contains estimates of the price sensitivity of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. It focuses on the effects of consumption on earnings, crime, suicide, and sexually transmitted diseases. more...