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A thorough guide about how to get help for a friend or loved one who is having problems with alcohol or other drugs. Provides places, names, numbers-who to call, what questions to ask, and what to expect. This invaluable guide includes six initial options for getting into recovery:
- The AA treatment program
-Interventions, detox and rehab
-Work related programs
-Al-Anon
-Law-enforcement programs
-Therapeutic communities
Addiction-Free: How...
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Allen Carr's Easyway method has helped millions of people to stop smoking. This is the first ever interactive Allen Carr book. By regularly interacting with the text in an easy yet dynamic and measurable way you begin to write the story of how you came to smoke. By understanding why you continue to smoke in spite of the obvious disadvantages, you are able to follow the simple step-by-step instructions that set you free. No pain. No drama. This eBook...
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"As a thorough guide to helping substance abusers find help, this makes a valuable addition to the self-help shelves."-PublishersWeekly (starred review)
A powerful, groundbreaking book that shows you, in concrete steps, how to help a loved one stop from engaging in self-destructive behavior.
Is your husband drinking himself to death? Is your brother losing it all to gambling? Do you need to get your kid off drugs before it's too late? Or make...
4) I Quit!
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This unique book contains the key elements of Allen Carr's universally acclaimed Easyway method of quitting smoking - the only proven way of stopping smoking for good. Follow the Easyway method and you will see through the smokescreen of lies and misinformation which are at the heart of society's ideas and beliefs about smoking. You will be at liberty, once and for all, to enjoy a nicotine-free future.
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Get your Top 10 Ways To Stop Drinking Directory 2022 for all the highest rated and independently ranked Top 10 lists of the best ways to quit drinking from the Addiction Help Agency Ltd. using Semrush data, with direct links to many FREE resources to help you find the support you need to moderate or quit drinking including: * The Top 10 FREE Quit Drinking Podcasts* The Top 10 FREE Peer Support Groups* The Top 10 FREE Podcasts* The Top 10 FREE Facebook...
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Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to explore the causes and consequences of our nation's drug crisis. In these pages we get to know the kids, the parents, the therapists, and the drug treatment programs at their best and worst. We're face-to-face with seventeen-year-old Mike, whose life revolves around selling, smoking, and snorting...
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The Tao of Sobriety shows how to apply eastern philosophy to enhance recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. With a few simple mental exercises, readers can learn how to quiet "The Committee," those nasty mental voices that undermine serenity and self-esteem. With leaders of the recovery movement enthusiastically endorsing this uniquely helpful book, The Tao of Sobriety is an invaluable addition to the recovery bookshelf.
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How many times have you thought about starting a diet or quitting smoking without doing anything about it? Or lapsed back into bad habits after hitting a rough spot on the road to recovery?
To uncover the secret to successful personal change, three acclaimed psychologists studied more than 1,000 people who were able to positively and permanently alter their lives without psychotherapy. They discovered that change does not depend on luck or willpower....
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Suzanna Fox and her friend Samantha Kelly are students at Rio Monte High School in Southern California. Suzanna has a strong personality while Samantha is extremely shy. When Chase Watson enrolls as a new student, the girls are attracted to his handsome features, unaware of his dark background.
It is Samantha's shyness and her low esteem that opens the door to disaster with her need to boost her self-confidence. She is a perfect candidate to...
10) Shine
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Tiff's mum is a thief and she's about to get caught ... A brilliant novel from a fantastic writer for girls.
Twelve-year-old Tiff loves her mum, Carla, who is glitzy and fun and always coming home with shiny new amazing stuff. The trouble is, Tiff's mum doesn't buy things, she takes them. The fact is, Tiff's mum is a thief...
When Carla gets caught, Tiff's shiny life is ruined. She's packed off to a remote island to live with Carla's family. A family...
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When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she's doomed! According to legend, she has one week before her fate catches up with her -- on her 11th birthday. With her time running out, all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. But her sister, Ate Nadine, stopped speaking to their father one year ago, and Sab doesn't even know why.
If Sab's going to get Ate Nadine and their father to...
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a self-help classic, with over 20m copies sold worldwide. It has been a #1 bestseller in nine European countries. It outsells all other quit smoking titles combined. This edition has been developed specifically for smokers in the US. This seminal book has enabled millions of smokers to quit easily and enjoyably using Carr's simple, drug-free approach.
13) Expecting
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Themes: Realistic Fiction, Rural, Teen Pregnancy, Single Mothers, Drug Abuse, Responsibility, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Three very different girls. But all of them alone. Isolated. And pregnant. They meet at the county's education...
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A HOUSE WITH A SECRET
An unanswered question: Who is the Creature in the Night?
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves thefamily to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. Teens will be captivated by this spooky novel about the darkness that lurks in forgotten corners and tough teenagers.
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Did You Know: Female alcoholics are twice as likely to die as male alcoholics in the same age group. Women metabolize alcohol differently from men, more quickly developing such physical complications as liver disease, high blood pressure, and hepatitis. A female alcoholic is more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, which may not go away even if she stops drinking. An astonishing four million women in the U.S. meet the...
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Olivier Ameisen's story is indeed unusual, not because he was a brilliant cardiologist who developed a profound addiction to alcohol, or because he tried numerous treatment options and none helped. His story was the story of millions of alcoholics-until he decided to take his treatment into his own hands.
Searching for a cure for his deadly disease, he happened upon baclofen, a safe muscle relaxant that had recently shown promising results in studies...
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"After years of battling uncontrollable addiction, I have achieved the supposedly impossible: complete freedom from craving."
Dr. Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist on the staff at one of America's top teaching hospitals and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. He broke bones with no memory of falling; he nearly lost his kidneys; he almost died from massive seizures during acute withdrawal....
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Are you looking for a way you can feel happier and more fulfilled? Do you wish you could heal your trauma and move past negativity to live a more contented life?The Layman's Guide to the 48 Acts is a companion guide to Paddy Rafter's The 48 Acts, which sets out how people can leave their problems and anxieties behind to find joy. Written by L K Taylor, a highly skilled and uniquely experienced trauma professional, the book explains his own personal...
19) Recovery Road
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Madeline has a drinking problem and anger issues, so she's sent away to Spring Meadows, a rehab center in a row of rehab centers known as Recovery Road. On a weekly movie night in town she meets Stewart, who's dealing with demons of his own. It's an intense time, and the two of them come together intensely.
When Madeline gets out of rehab, she tries to get back on her feet, and waits for Stewart to join her. When he does, though, it's not the ideal...
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In a refreshingly clear-headed and informed approach to addiction, noted writer and radio host Bill Manville sums up what he's learned in more than forty years of research...twenty as a demon-driven drunk and twenty in recovery.
From his popular show "Addictions and Answers," broadcast from KVML in Sonora, California, Manville has compiled a list of 88 questions and answers from, as he says, "a ton of plain and fancy drunks and dopers and their friends...
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