Product Description: One of the most neglected issues for women in recovery from addiction and trauma is sexuality. With candor and compassion, Dr. Covington reminds readers that recovery "is about living life fully and completely, and sexual recovery is integral to the fullness of your life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The behavioral and chemical dependencies were shown to have a common origin and predictable developmental trajectory. The following were specified; vulnerability to dependence, criteria for dependency choices, benefits from use, three developmental stages, breadth and speed of progression, personal patterns formed by age at acquisition and whether arousal was acute or chronic, depth of dependence, severity of consequences, and rules for quitting, relapse, and substitutions between dependency choices...read more

Product Description: **As Featured on The Dr. Oz Show in Special Addiction Episode with Steven Tyler**The disease of addiction affects 1 out of 10 people in the United States, and is a devastating―often, fatal―illness. Now, from the physician director of the renowned Betty Ford Center, comes a step-by-step plan with a realistic "one-day-at-a-time" approach to a disease that so often seems insurmountable...read more

Product Description: The truth is that drug use and abuse has been recently increasing as teenagers are getting more and more liberal. The reasoning behind this is going to be further explained in this book. If you have had any of the next couple of questions, then perhaps this book is the best read for you...read more

Product Description: Young people need to feel empowered in their schools and communities-it's not enough to ask them to stay away from drugs and alcohol, we need to show them positive things they can do instead, both for themselves and others! A BETTER HIGH is a powerful tool for everyone, especially students, teachers and parents...read more

Product Description: Author Rick Cottrell characterizes his childhood and nothing less than dysfunctional. He experienced unhealthy living environments at an early age. His experimentation with alcohol and smoking at the age of nine. In beyond addiction Cottrell shares his personal story of addiction and the journey into recovery which he has be clean and sober for over 20 years...read more

Product Description: After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good. With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells her story of transformation from homeless heroin addict to stable mother of three—and the hard work and hard lessons that got her there...read more

Product Description: The Complete Biocognitive Model Series by Niall McLaren, M.D. in 3 Volumes! Humanizing Madness takes each of the major theories in psychiatry and demonstrates conclusively that it is so flawed as to be beyond salvation. It goes further, in that the author outlines a model of mental function which both satisfies the essential requirements of any scientific model, and shows how the phenomena of mental disorder can be described in a parsimonious dualist model which leads directly to a humanist form of management of the most widespread form of disability in the world today...read more

Product Description: With contributions from leading international academics across the biological sciences, this handbook takes a critical look at the key contemporary issues and debates in the field. The 31 chapters are divided into four parts: Part I Determination of Substance Misuse Part II PK and PD in Relation to Patterns of Use    Part III Detection and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Use Part IV Controversies and New Approaches This Handbook is an excellent reference text for the growing number of academics, students, scientists and practitioners in the drug and alcohol studies community, and will be a vital resource to the allied professions involved in work-place drug testing, clinical toxicology, and forensic science...read more

Product Description: This book was created over many years in an effort to illuminate the condition that has plagued the female gender since human creation. Over the years various aspects of life presenting itself fueled the stop and go efforts to present these stories...read more

Product Description: “Marijuana is a leading drug threat to the country (Usa).” Drug Enforcement Administration (Dea) and the National Drug Intelligence Center (Ndic) in a report prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 2003...read more