Health & fitness / Addiction

Obsessed: America's Food Addiction--and My Own

by Mika Brzezinski

Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity. On Morning Joe, she is adamant about improving America’s eating habits. She believes it’s time we all learned to stop blaming ourselves, and each other, and look...

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy

by David Sheff

The author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Boy offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with –...

High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze

by Jill Stark

Booze dominated Jill Stark’s social life ever since she had her first sip of beer at 13, until, after a hangover at 35, she made the decision to give up alcohol — but what would it mean to stop drinking...

Why I Buy

by Rami Gabriel

This is a book about the relationship between the self and consumer society in America. There are many books and articles that explain consumerism in the twentieth century through politics, economics, and sociology....

Sharp

by David Fitzpatrick

"Endorphins sped through me. I spun around, growing dizzy, frantic, and silly. I wasn't drunk, but I felt a nice stoned feeling, sans paranoia, and I thought, 'I believe I've found my new pharmaceutical deep...

Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces

by Mark Jayne & Gill Valentine

Designed as a reference text, this book represents the first systematic overview of geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Each chapter blends conceptual material with empirical case studies to analyse...

The Twelve Step Facilitation Handbook: A Systematic Approach to Recovery from Substance Dependence

by Joseph Nowinski & Stuart Baker

Millions of people put their faith in the Twelve Steps every day. As a treatment provider, however, you need more than faith: you need proof to show accountability. The Twelve-Step Facilitation Handbook documents...

A Gentle Path Through the 12 Steps and 12 Principles Bundle: A Collection of Two Patrick Carnes Best Sellers

by Patrick J. Carnes

Two book bundle! Essential Twelve Step Recovery Guides from renown author, Patrick Carnes, Ph.D.

A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps UPDATED and EXPANDED

It was out of his reverence and respect for the wisdom...

A Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps & A Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps Workbook: A Women's Recovery Collection from Stephanie Covington

by Stephanie S. Covington

Includes both the book and workbook of A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps

Recovery is not a man's world, and yet to a woman it can sometimes seem that way. Geared specifically to that woman, this book brings...

Children of Incarcerated Parents: Theoretical Developmental and Clinical Issues

by Yvette R. Harris & James A. Graham

"This important book covers developmental outcomes of children in this predicament, parenting from prison, and family reunification. It is filled with research findings and addresses clinical issues as well....

Dual Disorders: Counseling Clients with Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness

by Dennis C Daley & Howard B. Moss

Depression. Schizophrenia. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Millions of individuals diagnosed with psychiatric or emotional disorders must battle an equally menacing and powerful disease-chemical dependency....

Face It and Fix It

by Ken Seeley

World-renowned interventionist Ken Seeley, one of the hosts of A&E's hit television series Intervention, has spent the past twenty years helping people and their families deal with and overcome life-threatening...