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…
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. …
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…
Alternatives to Abstinence
For the most part, Ogilvie provides a thoughtful and even-handed account of current thinking in the USA about the nature of alcoholism and treatment options…
Caught in the Net
Kimberly Young, perhaps the world's best known advocate of helping people who spend too much time online, has a way with words. In her first book, Caught…
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…
Codependent Forevermore
The book’s subtitle "The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Group" is what first caught my eye. I am part of an interdisciplinary team at…
Cracked
Hilariously funny and mixed with pathos and compassion from the start to the finish, Crackedby Drew Pinsky is informative and very familiar to of those professionals who have ever dealt with in-patient alcohol and drug abuse patients. How often have I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Forces of Habit
During the question and answer period following a recent talk at the University of Minnesota, psychiatrist…
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,…
In the Shadows of the Net
The statistics at the start of this book are striking: As of January 1999, there were nearly 100,000,000 total unique visitors per month five fr…
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…
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…
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…
Moderate Drinking
"The official handbook of Moderation Management, a non-profit, national self-help program that supports moderate drinking as a reasonable and attainable re…
More, Now, Again
At the start of Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s first bo…
My Friend Leonard
Now that James Frey has acknowledged that major features of his memoir A Million Little Pieces (…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for Life Changes
Now is the time to quit. Tobacco users have been forced to take their habit outside, away from the office, away from the public. Prices of a pack-a-day habi…
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Strong Feelings
In this book, Elster gives an account of emotions, addiction, and human choice. He is known for his admirably clear work on the social sciences and the dyna…
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…
The Betty Ford Center Book of Answers
There are many things in life that afford great pleasure and reviewing a good book comes close to the top of the list. Even reviewing a poor book has its…
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The Chemical Dependence Treatment Planner
Clinicians take notice. The problematic process of objective treatment planning has become easier. This book is one of the Practice Planners series. Thes…
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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…
The Meaning of Addiction
Professionals working with substance abuse populations will appreciate the return of a classic text. Originally published in 1985, this re-release makes ava…
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…
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…
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…