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Treating addictions in a group

Product Description: The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries. As such, it celebrates the diversity of normal drinking behavior and illustrates a wide range of beneficial drinking patterns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Faith was born on a beautiful spring day, and from the time she opened her big blue eyes, her journey had begun. What journey you ask? Life’s journey. Faith’s journey is no different from yours or mine. It is to fulfill God’s plan for us...read more

Product Description: In this wide-ranging look at God's design for the body of Christ, internationally renowned Bible teacher Derek Prince describes the original blueprint for the church. An excellent resource for church leaders and all believers, the book explores...read more

Trotter makes an important contribution to the understanding of alcoholism as a mental disease. Roy Porter considers the essay's conclusions in the context of Trotter's own life and mind.

Product Description: Como mantener sobrio a tu ser querido es un libro que todo amigo, pareja o familiar de un bebedor problematico o de un drogadicto debe leer con el fin de salvar la relacion con el o ella y brindarle una orientacion. Sustentado en solidas teorias y practicas, y escrito por dos especialistas, ofrece un sencillo metodo cientificamente probado para llevar un registro de las emociones, ideas y planes del ser querido, de los progresos respecto de la meta y de la forma de beber del adicto y, en el camino, deshacerse de los infructuosos recursos para hacerlo entrar en razon y destrabar el nudo que lo tiene atado a una sucesion de pleitos, desgaste emocional, recaidas y vueltas a lo mismo...read more

Product Description: From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism In recent years, increasingly convincing evidence in support of a biobehavioral conceptual model of the etiology of alcoholism has emerged. In this model, the disorder is perceived as arising from the interaction of geneticlbiological vulnerability and psychosocial risk...read more

This text is the written form of the proceedings of a satellite symposium associated with the 1988-meeting of the Society for Neu­ roscience. The symposium was held 12 November 1988 in the auditor­ ium of the Addictions Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada. The ac­ tual writing took place across the months following the symposium. The symposium was sponsored by the Addictions Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U. S. A. , and Rensselaer, Troy, NY, U. S. A. Du Pont Pharmaceuticals provided some financial assistance. Contributors also received specific support for their own projects and these are ac­ knowledged at the end of each chapter. The accomplishment of science involves the efforts of many persons and their organizations. That is surely manifest in the work presented here. Modern science is very expensive and, consequently, financial resouces must be developed and distributed wisely. Those who facilitate this basic function have the appreciation of those of us who need the resources to do our work. There are a large number of individuals whose names will not appear in these pages that make sub­ stantial contributions. We are thankful for their daily contributions. The people who provide the money, those who distribute it, and those who help us do our work have the legitimate expectation that the sci­ entists who use the resources will use it prudently. We hope that your expectations are fulfilled, and sincerely appreciate your efforts.

Product Description: From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism In the last decade research concerning the causes and consequences of alcohol abuse and alcoholism has come of age. We have witnessed a plethora of sci­ entific findings that have shed light on some of the actions of alcohol at the molecular level...read more

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This book is the outcome of the First International Congress on Drugs and Alcohol to be held in Israel. Both the conference and this volume grew out of the need to overcome the specious man-made barriers which continue to separate intervention plans and efforts in the broad field of substance use and misuse. This need demands that all of us become aware not only of the differences which may separate our concerns, but also of the similarities in our goals and endeavors. We are obligated to draw together toward a common effort for the common good. The conference was designed to facilitate the exploration ot generic ~ssues. This volume is designed to document a variety of factors which are basic to the defining, selection, planning, implementation, and evaluation of substance use and misuse intervention. This book is not a traditional proceedings volume. Because the needs of a listening audience are quite different from those of the solitary reader, and the roles of a workshop or plenary session participant are also dissimilar from those of the reader, not all of the Congress presentations are included, and the articles that are included have undergone major revi­ sions. Current intervention needs and options demand a broad spectrum of clearly defined roles for all who are or should be involved. Hence these issues, among others, served as guidelines in the preparation of the revised articles.

The author provides a candid memoir of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol, explaining how and why she became an alcoholic and her struggle to live without an alcoholic crutch

Product Description: The Importance of Measuring Alcohol Consumption To date, alcohol studies have attended far more to issues of alco­ hol dependence and the harmful consequences of drinking than to the level of alcohol consumption itself. This is, perhaps, not surprising since dependence on alcohol is believed to constitute a meaningful and distinct medical syndrome, regardless of the level of alcohol consumption associated with it (Edwards and Gross, 1976)...read more

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