Addictions

Four Stages of Breaking an Addiction
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
Nowhere do the Four Stages of Addiction come into play more powerfully than they do when you resist changing a habit relating to the foods with which you self-medicate. For most of us those foods are the instant, and easily available - Bread, Beverage

Why Teens Begin Using Marijuana
Marijuana - What's a Parent to Believe?
by Timmen L. Cermak
As a parent, if you're not sure what to believe about marijuana, how will you handle the subject with your child? Maybe you smoked pot as a teen, or you use marijuana today. Maybe you never tried pot, or you don't even know what it looks like.

Subtle Addictions
by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Many people are not aware of the more subtle addictions, the addictions that are often so covert and pervasive that they are as invisible to us as the air we breathe. Yet these addictions may be impacting us negatively as much as the more overt addictions

The Ritual of Food Addiction
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
If you've been trying to figure out the weight-loss game for as long as I've been coaching people - twenty five years - you've most likely been trying to avoid food, even though that point of view has not worked.

Recovery Hints
Adult Children of Alcoholics
by Janet Woititz
It is important to be clear what recovery means for adult children. Alcoholism is a disease. People recovering from alcoholism are recovering from a disease. The medical model is accepted by all responsible folks working in alcoholism treatment.

Chapter 2: The Stranger You Love
Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
by Beverly Conyers, MA
All addicts' stories are heartbreaking in their own unique ways. But if you hear enough of these stories, you begin to realize that they are also distressingly similar.

Straight Talk about Addiction and Recovery
Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids About Drugs and Alcohol
by Claudia A. Black, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Talking with your kids about alcohol use, drug use, and addiction can be difficult for any parent. For recovering parents, conversations with your children about drug use and abuse are even more complex, urgent, and personal.

Computer and Cyberspace Addiction
by John Suler, Ph.D.
A heated debate is rising among psychologists. With the explosion of excitement about the internet, some people seem to be a bit too excited. Some people spend way too much time there. Is this yet ANOTHER type of addiction that has invaded the human

The Origins of Trauma
Trauma and Addiction: Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy
by Tian Dayton, Ph.D.
Trauma, by its very nature, renders a person emotionally illiterate. What happens feels out of the norm, hard to pin down, elusive and strange, so we don't integrate it into our context of normal living.

The Uses of Smoking: An Integrated Awareness Perspective
by Mark Fourman, LLP
How come nicotine replacement therapy (nicotine patch and gum) only has a 7% success rate for quitting smoking?1 Why do people on nicotine replacement therapy still crave cigarettes? Clearly there are reasons for smoking that go far beyond simple chemical

Introduction to the Stages of Recovery
My Recovery: A Personal Plan for Healing
by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
If you or someone you love is battling an addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, gambling or the like, struggling with a mental illness or a harmful lifestyle habit, this book can help.

Is This For Real?
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
If you're like most people, when you hear that there's an addiction recovery program that will reduce substance cravings, detoxify your body and help heal the physiological damage done by drug and alcohol abuse-and do it all using only natural nutritional

Unrealistic Expectations
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
Weight gain is an evolutionary process. Some people call it creeping weight. The scale turtles inexorably upward - a tight skirt, a belt notch, a can't-zip-up-my-pants inch at a time. Yet you expect the scale to go down as rapidly as a high-speed

Wellness: The Missing Dimension in Recovery
The Wellness-Recovery Connection: Charting Your Pathway to Optimal Health While Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
by John Newport, Ph.D
As you may be aware you are not the only one who has ever hidden empty wine bottles from your spouse missed out on a good job due to failing a drug screening or fallen into a pattern of constantly covering up for the irresponsible behavior of an alcoholic

Let's Examine Some of the Myths about Substance Use
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
The primary reason my patients have been able to achieve such dramatic results using the Power Recovery Program is that I've developed a plan that avoids what I call the four myths about compulsive substance use. Let me dispel these myths right now.

Introduction
Playing It Straight: Personal Conversations on Recovery, Transformation and Success
by David Dodd
In this groundbreaking work, rock-n-roll writer and critic David Dodd presents some of the most powerful interviews with musicians, entertainers and athletes you will ever read.

A Revolution in the Treatment of Substance Use Problems
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
Do you fit the following profile? Esther W. was embarrassed the first time she came into my office. "I just can't seem to quit smoking," she said. "I know there are so many people out there with worse problems than I have I'm almost ashamed

How Can The Power Recovery Program Help Me?
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
The Power Recovery Program has one purpose: to help you, as a recovering substance user, improve your outcome, regardless of what else you do. By improve your outcome, I mean dramatically increase the odds that you'll be able to successfully recover from

Prescription Drug Use and Abuse : Complexities of Addiction
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
NIDA, along with several health organizations, has launched a national initiative to educate the public about the dangers of the non-medical use of prescription drugs, and the potential for abuse and addiction.

Why I Wrote This Book
Praying for Recovery, Psalms and Meditations
by Eli Ezry
It has been said that all addiction is search for God, though addicts unfortunately search in the wrong places - whether in alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, pornography, or work, or in another person, through codependency, sex, or love.