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21) Down & Dangerous
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Always one step ahead of the Feds, Paul Boxer is the most inventive and principled smuggler in the trade, and has never needed to carry a gun. When violent mid-level traffickers coerce him into designing a foolproof plan to bring ten kilos of cocaine across the México border, he maneuvers to rid himself of their hold over him once and for all. However, when a sharp and beautiful woman from his past enlists his help to escape this rival outfit, Paul...
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The New York Times bestselling book offering a breakthrough scientific approach and treatment to conquering addiction and substance abuse.
Addiction is not a moral failing or a lack of willpower. It is a disease of the brain that must be treated like any other chronic medical illness. Healing the Addicted Brain by Dr. Harold Urschel, a board-certified physician on addiction and founder of the Urschel Science Recovery Institute,
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Likeable Gabe makes the journey from being an almost friendless, unhappy, and skeptical young boy reeling from mistreatment at the hands of his addicted father and the effects the disease of addiction have had on his family, to a hopeful, happy youngster who takes pride in his dad's greatest accomplishment: recovery.
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"The Addicted Child" is a parent's guide to adolescent substance abuse. In Non-technical language parents learn how to identify and find treatment programs for their child. Brief chapters explain substances being used by today's adolescents and the process addictions which accompany substance abuse, like self-harm and eating disorders.
Parents will learn from Richard Capriola, a mental health and addictions counselor, the importance of comprehensive...
26) Beyond Addiction
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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. Through his recollections, Cottrell provides insight into the mindset of an addict and offers...
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Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are.
It is forgivable to lose them...
it is unforgivable not to reclaim them...
Mountain Air: Relapsing And Finding The Way Back One Breath At A Time is a brutally honest personal narrative detailing a painful decent into relapse and a powerful journey back to recovering.
Without condemnation but with passion and purpose, Mountain Air ...
* Embraces individuals who have abandoned their authentic...
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Follow a young boy in the midst of addiction as his family is twisted apart by their parents' strong grasp to drugs. He struggles to survive the abuse that torments him and helps you try to understand the cycle that consumes so many. There is love and anguish in this story of survival. The story was written while he was incarcerated and after an attempted suicide. The nurses shocked him back to life, and he sat in a strip cell, plotting how he could...
29) Methadone Treatment the Hidden Truth: What Every Patient, Spouse, Parent, And Family Needs to Know!
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"Methadone Treatment the Hidden Truth" was written by an active Substance Abuse Counselor working in a methadone clinic. You'll learn how methadone treatment is supposed to work, and why many patients stumble and relapse along the way. Most statistics show that very few patients actually complete treatment and go on to live long term sober lives. Why is that? This book will address the reasons for treatment failure. The hype, the myths, and the word...
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This book is not about drugs, it is about people. It is about those suffering from addiction and the struggles of the people around them. As well as describing how to identify if a loved one is in addiction, it provides clear information about the solution. With the right treatment addicts can recover. Jackson Oppy has walked the road he describes, knows the pain of addiction and knows the road back to wellness, wholeness and stable family and social...
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Most widely used illegal drug in Britain, surveys indicate that around 65% of all 15 - 59-year-olds have taken some form of illegal drugs - the majority being Cannabis.
Many of the millions of cannabis users have little idea of what it is, how it works, where it comes from and how to use it.
The Essential Guide to Cannabis addresses these issues in simple, every day, language.
It also gives in-depth information on buying cannabis, growing cannabis...
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This book is about my life before I lived on the road, what happened to me and all my mistakes when it came to doing drugs, and how a music artist named Colicchie and his music with such deep lyrics got me out and away from drug addiction. This book and the advice in it can get addicts off drugs no matter what the addiction is. It's also for people who don't do drugs but must read this, which is important.
The main point of this book is vital to...
33) My Observations
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These observations were made during the author's twenty-five years with Recovery Acres Society, a special care facility for people with drug and alcohol problems. This includes fifteen years as a board member-including six years as board chair-and ten years as executive director. During that time, the facility was able to help hundreds of men, women, and families recover from addictions. It was a real privilege for the author to be a part of the facility...
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Offering a fresh and uplifting perspective on every aspect of drug addiction and recovery, this empowering self-help resource, which speaks to addicts from all walks of life, guides readers to the ultimate healthy and sustainable high. This unique handbook explores the human need to feel good and how to integrate past drug experiences into a new, positive lifestyle with traditional Chinese medicine. Mind, body, and spirit workouts are interspersed...
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Chemical dependency is a huge problem. In the U.S., 10% to 12% of the population is dependent on alcohol or some other addictive chemical such as heroin, cocaine, or amphetamines. Author William Fleeman believes chemically dependent people use chemicals to transform painful feelings such as anxiety, fear, and depression into pleasurable feelings such as confidence, courage, and elation. This book helps readers unlearn this destructive pattern through...
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Christina has combined leading-edge technology with age-old wisdom and a dose of common sense. Within minutes of starting to read this book you will be engaged by the true life stories of those that fall prey to the dirty drug, methamphetamine, and their own stories of how they recovered. Whether as a user, family, friend, partner, or child of someone using, this book offers tools and strategies to make things better. You Are More Than This Will Ever...
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Walking in Darkness then the Light is a true story about my addiction to drugs and how drugs tried to take my life more ways than one. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and very against drugs during my high school days. I was a shy, nerdy athlete. My second year of college, I broke down and tried pot when I was a little depressed. I was instantly addicted and wanted more and more ever since. I feel all drugs are gateway drugs. My addiction started...
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Prescription drug addiction is now one of the nation's most serious drug problems. More Americans are abusing controlled prescription drugs more than cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, and heroin combined. With the exception of marijuana, prescription painkillers are the most widely abused drug in the U.S. Many who are addicted to prescription drugs are "unwitting addicts"-they have no history of drug abuse, but become addicted after taking a drug...
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The spread of crystal methamphetamine use sees more and more families face a horrifying reality - their child or spouse or parent is an addict. Their world is a hell where Ice rules and it is far from OK. Ice took families, society and the drug-addiction treatment sector by surprise. Young users often bypassed alcohol, 'soft' and party drug use, so the first mind-altering substance they try is ice, the world's strongest stimulant. A new kind of mature...
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An authoritative guide to the health risks of using cannabis and practical, step-by-step information on coping with withdrawal symptoms and quitting marijuana for good. Do you feel you're losing focus and concentration? Is weed taking a toll on your relationships? Is it taking over your life? The longer you have used marijuana, the harder it is to quit. Maybe, like many others, you have experienced anxiety, sleeplessness, and strong cravings when...
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