Addict in the House

by Robin Barnett

Author	: Robin Barnett
Publisher	: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages	: 227
Release	: 2016-08-01
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 1626252629

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"This is a straightforward, rich resource for anyone who lives with, and loves, an addict." —Publishers Weekly Everyone suffers when there’s an addict in the family. Written by an expert in alcohol and drug addiction and recovery, this no-nonsense guide will help you understand the causes of addiction, end enabling behaviors, support your loved one’s recovery, and learn how to cope with relapses. If you’re the family member of an addict, you may feel confused, guilty, and scared of doing the wrong thing. And when you don’t know how to help, you may find yourself in a codependent role, trying so hard to keep your addicted loved one alive, out of jail, or emotionally appeased that you may actually prevent them from realizing they need help. Drawing on her own personal experience with her brother’s addiction, Addict in the House offers a pragmatic, step-by-step guide to dealing with a loved one’s addiction, from accepting the reality of the disease to surviving what may be repeated cycles of recovery and relapse. You’ll learn how to encourage your addicted loved one to get help without forcing it, and finally find the strength to let go of codependence. With this revealing and straightforward book, you’ll have the support you need to take an honest look at how addiction has affected the family, cope with the emotional hurdles of having an addicted family member, create and maintain firm boundaries, and make informed decisions about how to best help your loved one.

Addict America

by Carol Clark

Author	: Carol Clark
Publisher	: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages	: 178
Release	: 2011-06-01
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 9781456505158

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Based on the innovative premise that addiction is not limited to drugs or alcohol, but is truly about the over-the-top, out-of-control lifestyles that have detached Americans from each other and their spiritual Connections (with a capital “C”). Dr. Carol Clark looks at addiction as something in and of itself, a condition rather than a substance abuse or behavioral problem. She then offers practical strategies for change that will ground and Connect the readers so they may find happiness and fulfillment in their daily lives.Covering this topic from the addictive process of disconnection - whether from use of technology or gambling, drugs or sex - through recovery and Connection, Clark's strategies provide the tools necessary to create fulfilling and truly intimate relationships in every facet of life by shifting the root of the addictive behavior patterns to a place of clarity and acceptance.Describing and defining how repetitive, addictive behavior affects the human brain and causes the disconnections we experience with our families, friends, and co-workers in a profound, eye-opening manner, Dr. Clark's new book takes current addiction theory down a new, groundbreaking path. Addict America: The Lost Connection uses simple, personal language to make the complexity of the condition and the human brain understandable. Focused on the systemic nature of the problem, this book is a tour de force of personal change, offering instruction on how addictions fracture Connections in daily life and then providing solutions on how to rebuild them from within for maximum effect.

7 Tools to Beat Addiction

by Stanton Peele. Ph.D., J.D.

Author	: Stanton Peele. Ph.D., J.D.
Publisher	: Harmony
Total Pages	: 290
Release	: 2007-12-18
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 0307419630

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Whether you are battling drugs, nicotine, alcohol, food, shopping, sex, or gambling, this hands-on, practical guide will help you overcome addiction of any kind. If you or a loved one are struggling with addiction but do not find that twelve-step or other treatment programs work for you, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction can help. Internationally recognized expert Dr. Stanton Peele presents a program for addiction recovery based on research and clinical study and grounded in science. His program utilizes proven methods that people actually use to overcome addiction, with or without treatment. 7 Tools to Beat Addiction offers in-depth, interactive exercises that show you how to outgrow destructive habits by putting together the building blocks for a balanced, fulfilling, responsible life. Dr. Peele’s approach is founded on the following tools: • Values • Motivation • Rewards • Resources • Support • Maturity • Higher Goals This no-nonsense guide will put you in charge of your own recovery.

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

by Marc Lewis

Author	: Marc Lewis
Publisher	: Doubleday Canada
Total Pages	: 322
Release	: 2011-10-04
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 0385669267

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A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it all the more. This cycle is at the root of all addictions, addictions to drugs, sex, love, cigarettes, soap operas, wealth, and wisdom itself. But why should this be so? Why are we desperate for what we don't have, or can't have, often at great cost to what we do have, thereby risking our peace and contentment, our safety, and even our lives?" The answer, says Dr. Marc Lewis, lies in the structure and function of the human brain. Marc Lewis is a distinguished neuroscientist. And, for many years, he was a drug addict himself, dependent on a series of dangerous substances, from LSD to heroin. His narrative moves back and forth between the often dark, compellingly recounted story of his relationship with drugs and a revelatory analysis of what was going on in his brain. He shows how drugs speak to the brain - which is designed to seek rewards and soothe pain - in its own language. He shows in detail the neural mechanics of a variety of powerful drugs and of the onset of addiction, itself a distortion of normal perception. Dr. Lewis freed himself from addiction and ended up studying it. At the age of 30 he traded in his pharmaceutical supplies for the life of a graduate student, eventually becoming a professor of developmental psychology, and then of neuroscience - his field for the last 12 years. This is the story of his journey, seen from the inside out.

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself

by Candace Plattor

Author	: Candace Plattor
Publisher	: Being At Choice Consultants
Total Pages	: 162
Release	: 2016-10-28
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 0981385087

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Are you feeling exasperated and helpless about your family member's addiction? Are you at your wit's end, having tried everything you can think of to make them stop? If someone you love is engaging in addictive behaviors such as alcohol and drug misuse, eating disorders, smoking, gambling, Internet addiction, sex addiction, compulsive overspending, or relationship addiction, you are undoubtedly experiencing unpredictability in your relationship. Some of the most common emotions you will experience include: - Guilt and shame - Anger and anxiety - Confusion and powerlessness Whether the addict in your life is your spouse, partner, parent, child, friend, or colleague, the key to changing this reality for yourself lies in shifting your focus from your loved one's addiction to you own self-care. This book presents a dramatically fresh approach to help you get off the roller-coaster chaos of addiction, maintain your own sanity and serenity, and live your best life.

The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery

by Lawrence Peltz, MD

Author	: Lawrence Peltz, MD
Publisher	: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages	: 289
Release	: 2013-03-12
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 1590309189

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Mindfulness, the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is, is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. Because at the heart of addiction is the fear of painful emotional states, addicts compulsively seek drugs and alcohol to avoid or escape emotional pain. Mindfulness, on the other hand, helps us develop greater acceptance and ease with life’s challenges, as well as greater self-compassion. Here, Dr. Lawrence Peltz, who has worked as an addiction psychiatrist for nearly three decades, draws from his clinical experience and on the techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to explain the fundamental dynamics of addiction and the stages of the recovery process, and also gives us specific mindfulness exercises to support recovery.

Healing the Addicted Brain

by Harold Urschel

Author	: Harold Urschel
Publisher	: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages	: 288
Release	: 2009-04-01
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 140222382X

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New York Times Bestseller! "New, scientifically-based approaches that recognize the biological basis of addiction have brought major advances in the treatment of addiction. Dr. Urschel is at the forefront of this treatment paradigm." Dr. Larry Hanselka, Psychologist The Proven Scientific Approach to Conquering Addiction and Defeating the Disease Healing the Addicted Brain is a breakthrough work that focuses on treating drug and alcohol addiction as a biological disease—based on the Recovery Science program that has helped thousands of patients defeat their addictions over the past 10 years. It combines the best behavioral addiction treatments with the latest scientific research into brain functions, providing tools and strategies designed to overcome the biological factors that cause addictive behavior along with proven treatments and medications. Using this scientific approach, you will learn to conquer the physical factors that keep people tied to drug and alcohol addiction. The proven fact is addiction is not a moral failing or an issue of not having enough willpower. It is a disease of the brain that can and must be treated like other chronic medical illnesses —such as diabetes, hypertension, or asthma—in order to defeat the disease. This revolutionary program can triple the success rate of patients, from 20-30% to 90% There Is Hope. By understanding addiction and using 21st-century breakthroughs, for the first time drug and alcohol addiction can be, and will be, defeated.

The Path through Addiction of an Addict

by Stacy Duggan

Author	: Stacy Duggan
Publisher	: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages	: 33
Release	: 2021-05-12
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 1662416172

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She felt for a very long time that she had a problem. Not only did she not see it, but so did everybody else around her. She managed to fight the biggest fight that she could, which was her addiction. She felt that she was strong, but not the strongest. She always knew she had it in her, but it didn't seem that she could conquer it. She caused a lot of pain and a lot of distress on herself and also on others. She's been alone for so long, or at least she felt it. She can only have a dream for the perfect life, why the dream that she could visualize. She can put so much on her shoulders that the baggage she builds up was irreversible. She didn't see in herself that she could do it, but she knew that she had the strength to do it. She was a strong independent person when she knew that she had to do something about it and what there was to do about it was to fight with the strength that she had in the power and the will and the forgiveness. She always seemed to put a lot on herself, but not only was it herself; it was all those around her too. She wasn't so mindful of what she was doing to put herself through or what she did to put herself through, which was a strong addictive personality. She was attracted to the bad but was also attracted to the good. She knew what was right, but she didn't know what was wrong. She can only cause so much chaos until she stopped doing the chaos and started realizing, but she did realize what, so the question was the question that she had an addictive personality, how was she an addict, where it was addictive, tired of being an unreliable friend, sister, girlfriend, daughter, or even an acquaintance. She wasn't so approachable because she was always speaking her mind or stole or cheated from her loved ones or even random people. She had everything but didn't see that it was her own fault-no one to blame, no one to put the blame on but take responsibility.

Chasing the Scream

by Johann Hari

Author	: Johann Hari
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages	: 433
Release	: 2015-01-20
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1620408929

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The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.