Addiction and Alcoholism
Here you will find books on the subject of addiction and alcoholism. Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Theory of Addiction
West's book does not look like the book that it is. To read the table of contents is to get the impression that this book is a catalogue of the…
Methadonia
Michel Negroponte’s documentary about Methadone users is very personal. He follows several users who go to a Manhattan group, the New York Center for Ad…
Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage plays Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic screenwriter who drinks himself to death. The movie starts with his old friends rejecting Ben and his bos…
My Friend Leonard
Now that James Frey has acknowledged that major features of his memoir A Million Little Pieces (…
Circles of Recovery
Enjoying reading a book and giving it a great review is often mutually exclusive. I enjoyed reading Circles of Recovery. It is a good book for a…
Writing to Heal
The purpose of this book is to introduce those folks with some sort of trauma or emotional upheaval to the real life wonders of producing a Journal of Th…
Over the Influence
This is a terrific book. Recovering from alcohol and drug habits isn’t a fun subject, but it’s an interesting one. People’s reasons for starting with a s…
Cybersex
Despite the melodramatic title of this book, Cybersex: The Dark Side of the Force is in fact an academic publication, and originally came out as a…
How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics
The book is presenting a new technique directed at the Professional Counselor Community as well as the layperson. The author operates a Web Site,…
Virtual Addiction
David Greenfield’s Virtual Addiction is now six years old, but it remains a useful guide to dealing with some of the problems that occur with Inte…
Dirty
The motivation behind Dirty is the author’s personal experience with her own children in the teen years. She found herself unable to completely re…
A Million Little Pieces
A Million Little Pieces chronicles the time that James Frey spent in rehab and managed to overcome his chronic drinking and drug use. At the star…
Dry
Running with Scissors was a memoir of Augusten Burrough’s youth detailing his vastly dysfunctional family and the abuse he suffered at the hands o…
Creating the American Junkie
In the growing body of historical and social scholarship about psycho-pharmacology and drug policy, a good portion of studies hamper interrogation of pas…
Substance Abuse As Symptom
It’s often the case that anyone who critiques any area of psychiatry, for whatever reason, is now referred to as writing “anti-psychiatry.” I find this…
Addiction and Change
This is a solid, serious book. DiClemente sets out a framework in which to understand the complexities of addiction, the Transtheoretical Model or TTM. …
The Heart of Addiction
I found The Heart of Addiction really interesting and worth reading. Dodes is a psychologist of the psychodynamic school (hope the phrase is rig…
Real Solutions for Overcoming Internet Addictions
This slim book is aimed at Christians who find themselves spending too much time on the Internet or engaging in immoral activities on the Internet and ye…
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Powerfully Recovered!
I struggled, really I did, to read all this book. I don’t know why, because the subject is one I should find interesting. I decided to quit a…
Addiction Recovery Tools
This is a large heavy book just packed with information. There are 22 heavyweight articles written by professionals in the field of addiction – and…
Lithium for Medea
It is truly amazing for an author to write a novel inherently dark and depressing by nature, yet so poetic and insightful that we at times feel a calm in…
Rachel’s Holiday
Rachel’s Holiday is a light novel with a serious topic. Rachel Walsh is twenty-seven years old, and after she is hospitalized after an overdo…
Recovery Options
Did you know that in some Siberian tribes, people ingest urine from mushroom eating friends for a magnified mushroom high? That makes two of us. With thi…
More, Now, Again
At the start of Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s first bo…
Recovery from Addiction
This is an undogmatic workmanlike exposition on an important topic. It isn’t flashy or emotive, it doesn’t try to engage your emotions and it provides no ea…