Voices Of Alcoholism

Author : Healing Project
Publisher : LaChance Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781934184042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Alcoholism written by Healing Project and published by LaChance Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the personal experiences of recoving alcoholics, along with their families and friends, describing how the disease has affected their lives.

Author : Healing Project
Publisher : LaChance Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781934184042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Alcoholism written by Healing Project and published by LaChance Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the personal experiences of recoving alcoholics, along with their families and friends, describing how the disease has affected their lives.

Author : Bud Mikhitarian
Publisher : Central Recovery Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1937612945
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Faces, One Voice written by Bud Mikhitarian and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Faces, One Voice is a must-read companion book to the award-winning film The Anonymous People. Together with the film, this collection of insights, illuminated by vibrant faces and voices of recovery, takes the reader along a journey of individual growth and, potentially, to world change. A vital record of the lives and testimony of brave people who have come out of the shadows of anonymity to fight stigma and discrimination—people who now publicly advocate for the 23 million Americans suffering with addiction. Their inspiring stories, told in intimate detail, are essential to understanding the success, the hope, and the power of recovery. Bud Mikhitarian is an award-winning filmmaker and the producer of The Anonymous People film. Greg Williams is the director of The Anonymous People.

Author : Lisa Laitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781514659120
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Recovery from the Campus written by Lisa Laitman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like for people in their early teens and twenties to try to achieve sobriety? What are the life situations that they face that are different than if they began their journeys to sobriety later in life? And what happens as their lives unfold over the years? To answer these and other questions, the editors of Voices of Recovery from the Campus put together a collection of 12 stories written by college students and alumni of Rutgers University who began their recovery in college. Like all recovery stories, they are the personal journeys of very different people who struggle with the same issue: how to live life without drinking? What makes them unique is that their drinking often began long before they were legally able to drink, and so did their sobriety. Each story is different from the others in the details of the person's life and circumstances, yet what they have in common is that each story captures what it was like to struggle with alcoholism, what happened to motivate the person to stop drinking and what it is like now as a sober person. The editors think of the book as the Little Book, a contemporary set of stories about young people getting sober, what it took and the joyous lives they have now that they are free of alcoholism. It is a book of stories, told in the words of each person who lived the experience. A book that shows the pain, embarrassment, suffering, and the struggles and victories with sobriety, and the honesty and humor with which these recovering alcoholics look back on themselves, their experiences and their great good fortunate in getting sober and staying sober. Voices of Recovery from the Campus shows that alcoholism affects people as early in life as their teen years and that there is always hope. It shows how college students who wanted to get sober and stay sober actually did to replace drinking with a life free from alcohol. For example, readers get to see what it was like for a woman who came from a large family and started drinking with friends in her early teens. For her, college was a time of good grades and lots of drinking until she found AA and what she calls a "new happiness and new freedom." They meet the man who was outgoing and active, and who fellow students and professors loved. On the outside, he looked like what every college student should be. While on the inside he struggled with his drinking and how it made him feel about himself. Readers meet the woman who grew up knowing about AA since her mother was sober in AA but discovered her own need for alcohol, anyway. They learn that she had to find her own way to face her own alcoholism when she got to college. They get to read what it was like for the man who admits he was lonely and drank to feel better. "I wasn't the coolest guy when I drank," he recounts, and tells what happens when at 19, he decided to stop and found recovery. And they read of the woman who admitted that her ritual was to drink, pass out, wake up, and drink who learn that for her, "school was a blur that I just got through."These are the recovering alcoholics' stories, and they should be told-not because they are particularly dramatic, but because they are stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things as they fought their addiction and found their recovery from a disease that takes more lives than it spares.

Author : James Robert Milam
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0593358228
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Influence written by James Robert Milam and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The now-classic guide to alcoholism returns with new, enlightening research that confirms the revolutionary ideas first trailblazed by this book in a time when such theories were unheard of—now featuring a new foreword, new resources, and the same reliable insights and easy-to-read style. “This book is truly informative, powerful, and an invaluable resource on overcoming alcoholism.”—Angela Diaz, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Ten of millions of Americans suffer from alcoholism, yet most people still wrongly believe that alcoholism is a psychological or moral problem that can be “cured” once the purported underlying psychological problems or moral failings of the alcoholic are addressed. Based on groundbreaking scientific research, Under the Influence examines the physical factors that set alcoholics and non-alcoholics apart, and suggests a bold, stigma-free way of understanding and treating the disease of alcoholism. You’ll learn: • How to tell if someone you know is an alcoholic. • The progressive stages of alcoholism. • How to help an alcoholic into treatment and how to choose the right treatment program. • Why diet and nutritional therapy are essential elements of treatment. • Why frequently prescribed medications can be dangerous for alcoholics. • How to ensure a lasting recovery. An essential resource for anyone hoping to better understand the nature of alcoholism—whether you are looking to support a loved one or learning how to best care for yourself—it’s no wonder this innovative work has been hailed as “the best book ever written on alcoholism” (AA Beyond Belief). This special updated edition of Under the Influence will continue to earn its standing as a classic in the alcoholism field for years to come.

Author : Jack Trimpey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671528580
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Recovery written by Jack Trimpey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a self-recovery program for substance abuse based on the Addictive Voice Recognition Technique.

Author : Caroline Knapp
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 044033408X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drinking written by Caroline Knapp and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 1999-08-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times—full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire—a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life. Praise for Drinking “Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.”—The New York Times “Drinking not only describes triumph; it is one.”—Newsweek

Author : Roy Eskapa
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1937856135
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cure for Alcoholism written by Roy Eskapa and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, there is a cure for alcoholism. This is the first step. Featuring new and updated information and studies, including an introduction by actress Claudia Christian, the second edition of The Cure for Alcoholism delivers exactly what millions of alcoholics and families of alcoholics have been hoping for: a painless, dignified, and medically proven cure for their addiction. Backed by 82 clinical trials and research that extends back to 1964, The Sinclair Method deploys an opiate-blocking medication in a very specific way—in combination with ongoing drinking—to extinguish the addictive "software" in the brain. The de-addiction process rolls back the addictive mechanism in the brain to its original pre-addicted state—before the first drink was consumed, making this program an actual cure for alcoholism. Drs. Roy Eskapa and David Sinclair of The Sinclair Method have put together a sound scientific book that proves that with this particular method, alcoholism can be cured in more than 78 percent of patients. What's more, the treatment avoids the dangerous withdrawal symptoms, allowing patients to detox gradually and safely while they are still drinking. This removes the need for expensive and unpleasant inpatient rehabilitation programs. Actual drinking levels and cravings automatically decrease until control over alcohol is restored. The bottom line is that patients can control their drinking or stop altogether with the simple yet powerful process outlined in The Cure for Alcoholism. Including a new introduction by actress Claudia Christian about The Sinclair Method's impact on her life, updated trial information, and a letter explaining the treatment that can be given to doctors by patients, The Cure for Alcoholism is a revolutionary book for anyone who wants to gain control over drinking.

Author : Monica Madrid
Publisher : Monica Madrid
ISBN 13 : 9780578407524
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Next Quiet Voice written by Monica Madrid and published by Monica Madrid. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her journey to near stardom in the music business, Monica Madrid wound up a broke, demoralized alcoholic. Through the twists and turns of a colorful life, she rubbed elbows with Prince, Rick James, and other artists and was in a musical battle with Tupac Shakur. She came close to fulfilling her childhood dream, but once it was stripped from her grasp, her path led to money, prestige, and broken relationships. Monica's story is one of loss, love, and redemption. Her quest for fame and fortune would turn into a passion for recovery, in which she would discover something she never wanted-spiritual freedom.

Author : Matthew Tinsley
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781846428142
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol written by Matthew Tinsley and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol exposes the unexplored problem of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) using alcohol as a coping mechanism to deal with everyday life. Alcohol can relieve the anxiety of social situations and make those with ASDs feel as though they can fit in. Ultimately, however, reliance on alcohol can lead the user down a path of self-destruction and exacerbate existing problems. Utilising their professional and personal experience, the authors provide an overview of ASDs and of alcohol abuse, and explore current knowledge about where the two overlap. Tinsley explores his own personal history as someone with an ASD who has experienced and beaten alcohol addiction. He discusses how the impact of his diagnosis and his understanding of the condition played a huge part in his recovery, and how by viewing his life through the prism of autism, his confusion has been replaced by a greater understanding of himself and the world around him. This inspiring book on an under-researched area will be of interest to professionals working with people with ASDs, as well as individuals with ASDs who may be dealing with alcohol or substance misuse, and their families.