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Addiction & Recovery

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Bestsellers

The Regulated Bitch Audiobook By Gwen Taylor cover art
The Regulated Bitch
  • The Regulated Bitch

  • Calm the Chaos, Let Go of Control, and Master Emotional Regulation
  • By: Gwen Taylor
  • Narrated by: L.B. Neibaur
  • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    186
  • Performance
    185
  • Story
    185

You don’t need another routine. You need relief. Download today—because emotional chaos isn’t your destiny, and you were never meant to handle it alone.

  • This is for the moms

  • By Destiney on 03-19-26

By: Gwen Taylor

Codependent No More Audiobook By Melody Beattie cover art
Codependent No More
  • Codependent No More

  • How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
  • By: Melody Beattie
  • Narrated by: Melody Beattie
  • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,571
  • Performance
    1,406
  • Story
    1,403

Melody Beattie's insightful look into codependency has guided millions to understanding that caring for the self is where healing begins.

  • great book with unbearable reader

  • By Nielah on 09-01-22

By: Melody Beattie

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Audiobook By Allen Carr cover art
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking
  • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking

  • Allen Carr's Easyway Series
  • By: Allen Carr
  • Narrated by: John Chancer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,629
  • Performance
    1,430
  • Story
    1,420

This book is the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, best-practice version of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking method that will not only set you free from smoking but will also ensure that you find it easy and even enjoyable to quit.

  • it works

  • By Amazon Customer on 03-07-20

By: Allen Carr

The Narcissist's Playbook Audiobook By Dana Morningstar cover art
The Narcissist's Playbook
  • The Narcissist's Playbook

  • How to Identify, Disarm, and Protect Yourself from Narcissists, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, and Other Types of Manipulative and Abusive People
  • By: Dana Morningstar
  • Narrated by: Dana Morningstar
  • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,401
  • Performance
    1,234
  • Story
    1,224

Do you have a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath in your life, or think that you might? Do you continually feel anxious around someone in your life, but can’t pinpoint why? Listen to find out more....

  • powerful

  • By All Dolled Up on 01-17-20

By: Dana Morningstar

This Naked Mind Audiobook By Annie Grace cover art
This Naked Mind
  • This Naked Mind

  • Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life
  • By: Annie Grace
  • Narrated by: Annie Grace
  • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    8,125
  • Performance
    6,885
  • Story
    6,840

A groundbreaking and inspiring book that challenges our relationship with alcohol by exploring the psychological factors behind alcohol use and the cultural influences that contribute to dependency. Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it...

  • Not as Described

  • By Sean on 07-01-18

By: Annie Grace

Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition Audiobook By Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc. cover art
Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition
  • Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition

  • The Official "Big Book" from Alcoholic Anonymous
  • By: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
  • Narrated by: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
  • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    558
  • Performance
    449
  • Story
    447

Known as the "Big Book", the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous has helped millions of people worldwide get and stay sober since the first edition appeared in 1939....

  • Wonderful Narration!!

  • By Andy Berry on 04-13-21

By: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.

The Regulated Bitch Audiobook By Gwen Taylor cover art
The Regulated Bitch
  • The Regulated Bitch

  • Calm the Chaos, Let Go of Control, and Master Emotional Regulation
  • By: Gwen Taylor
  • Narrated by: L.B. Neibaur
  • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    186
  • Performance
    185
  • Story
    185

You don’t need another routine. You need relief. Download today—because emotional chaos isn’t your destiny, and you were never meant to handle it alone.

  • This is for the moms

  • By Destiney on 03-19-26

By: Gwen Taylor

Codependent No More Audiobook By Melody Beattie cover art
Codependent No More
  • Codependent No More

  • How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
  • By: Melody Beattie
  • Narrated by: Melody Beattie
  • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,571
  • Performance
    1,406
  • Story
    1,403

Melody Beattie's insightful look into codependency has guided millions to understanding that caring for the self is where healing begins.

  • great book with unbearable reader

  • By Nielah on 09-01-22

By: Melody Beattie

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Audiobook By Allen Carr cover art
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking
  • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking

  • Allen Carr's Easyway Series
  • By: Allen Carr
  • Narrated by: John Chancer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,629
  • Performance
    1,430
  • Story
    1,420

This book is the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, best-practice version of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking method that will not only set you free from smoking but will also ensure that you find it easy and even enjoyable to quit.

  • it works

  • By Amazon Customer on 03-07-20

By: Allen Carr

The Narcissist's Playbook Audiobook By Dana Morningstar cover art
The Narcissist's Playbook
  • The Narcissist's Playbook

  • How to Identify, Disarm, and Protect Yourself from Narcissists, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, and Other Types of Manipulative and Abusive People
  • By: Dana Morningstar
  • Narrated by: Dana Morningstar
  • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,401
  • Performance
    1,234
  • Story
    1,224

Do you have a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath in your life, or think that you might? Do you continually feel anxious around someone in your life, but can’t pinpoint why? Listen to find out more....

  • powerful

  • By All Dolled Up on 01-17-20

By: Dana Morningstar

This Naked Mind Audiobook By Annie Grace cover art
This Naked Mind
  • This Naked Mind

  • Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life
  • By: Annie Grace
  • Narrated by: Annie Grace
  • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    8,125
  • Performance
    6,885
  • Story
    6,840

A groundbreaking and inspiring book that challenges our relationship with alcohol by exploring the psychological factors behind alcohol use and the cultural influences that contribute to dependency. Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it...

  • Not as Described

  • By Sean on 07-01-18

By: Annie Grace

Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition Audiobook By Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc. cover art
Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition
  • Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition

  • The Official "Big Book" from Alcoholic Anonymous
  • By: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
  • Narrated by: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
  • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    558
  • Performance
    449
  • Story
    447

Known as the "Big Book", the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous has helped millions of people worldwide get and stay sober since the first edition appeared in 1939....

  • Wonderful Narration!!

  • By Andy Berry on 04-13-21

By: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.

unSweetined Audiobook By Jodie Sweetin cover art
unSweetined
  • unSweetined

  • A Memoir
  • By: Jodie Sweetin
  • Narrated by: Jodie Sweetin
  • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    424
  • Performance
    405
  • Story
    405

Includes a brand-new foreword written and read by the author! In this “explosive” (Us Weekly) and “brutally honest” (E! Online) memoir, Jodie Sweetin, once Danny Tanner’s bubbly daughter on America’s favorite family sitcom, takes readers behind the scenes of Full House and into her...

  • Older and not current

  • By L. Berendson on 11-23-25

By: Jodie Sweetin

Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower Audiobook By Allen Carr cover art
Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower
  • Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower

  • Be a Happy Non-Drinker
  • By: Allen Carr
  • Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
  • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    272
  • Performance
    240
  • Story
    240

In Quit Drinking Without Willpower, Allen Carr's Easyway method has been applied to problem drinking....

  • Mundane and no hidden truth

  • By Christos Tsirkas on 04-07-24

By: Allen Carr

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Audiobook By Gabor Maté MD cover art
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

  • Close Encounters with Addiction
  • By: Gabor Maté MD
  • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
  • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,499
  • Performance
    1,246
  • Story
    1,241

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of When the Body Says No and The Myth of Normal—The definitive book for understanding the roots and behaviours of addiction. Dr. Gabor Maté is one of the world’s most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. His radical findings—based on...

  • Gabor should have been the narrator

  • By Stacey on 08-16-19

By: Gabor Maté MD

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Vaping Audiobook By Allen Carr cover art
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Vaping
  • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Vaping

  • By: Allen Carr
  • Narrated by: Helen Keeley
  • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    468
  • Performance
    431
  • Story
    431

The Easyway method tackles addiction from an entirely different angle. Rather than employing scare-tactics and enforcing painful restrictions on your vaping habits, it unravels the cognitive brainwashing behind your addictive behaviour.

  • Sounds crazy, but it actually works

  • By Tori on 11-29-21

By: Allen Carr

Your Brain on Porn Audiobook By Gary Wilson cover art
Your Brain on Porn
  • Your Brain on Porn

  • Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
  • By: Gary Wilson
  • Narrated by: Noah Church
  • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    2,080
  • Performance
    1,710
  • Story
    1,692

When high speed Internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control....

  • very informative!!!!

  • By Blacktino!!!!! on 11-16-20

By: Gary Wilson

Healing the Shame That Binds You Audiobook By John Bradshaw cover art
Healing the Shame That Binds You
  • Healing the Shame That Binds You

  • By: John Bradshaw
  • Narrated by: John Pruden
  • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,149
  • Performance
    951
  • Story
    939

Healing the Shame That Binds You is the most enduring work of family relationship expert and New York Times best-selling author John Bradshaw. In it, he shows how unhealthy toxic shame, often learned young and maintained into adulthood, is the core component in our compulsions, co-dependencies...

  • Wonderful information

  • By Mary on 12-18-11

By: John Bradshaw

Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families Audiobook By Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families cover ar
Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families

  • By: Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
  • Narrated by: Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
  • Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    284
  • Performance
    222
  • Story
    220

The ACA Fellowship Text (commonly referred to as the Big Red Book or BRB) is a meeting book, steps book, traditions book, workbook, and group guide....

  • Bad narrative voice

  • By Ankit Bahl on 12-05-15

By: Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Audiobook By Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc. cover art
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
  • Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

  • The “Twelve and Twelve” - Essential Alcoholics Anonymous Reading
  • By: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
  • Narrated by: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
  • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    245
  • Performance
    195
  • Story
    195

Commonly referred to as the “Twelve and Twelve”, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions comprises 24 foundational essays by Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W. that have helped millions of A.A. members worldwide both to get and stay sober “one day at a time”....

  • Perfect

  • By Amazon Customer on 02-25-21

By: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.

Quit Like a Woman Audiobook By Holly Whitaker cover art
Quit Like a Woman
  • Quit Like a Woman

  • The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
  • By: Holly Whitaker
  • Narrated by: Holly Whitaker
  • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5,379
  • Performance
    4,604
  • Story
    4,583

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either...

  • you had me until the last chapter

  • By Katie on 01-15-20

By: Holly Whitaker

Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives Audiobook By Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Mille
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives
  • Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives

  • By: Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, J. Keith Miller
  • Narrated by: Nathan McMillan
  • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    608
  • Performance
    522
  • Story
    517

Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their origin to emotional, spiritual, intellectual....

  • Love the book, extremely dislike the type of readers voice chosen.

  • By Molly Hamilton on 12-01-20

By: Pia Mellody, and others

Blitzed Audiobook By Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside - translator, Claire Bloom - director cover art
Blitzed
  • Blitzed

  • Drugs in the Third Reich
  • By: Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside - translator, Claire Bloom - director
  • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5,328
  • Performance
    4,695
  • Story
    4,674

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up...

  • The best "Gotterdammerung" book I have ever read.

  • By James Carl Barsz, MD on 05-06-17

By: Norman Ohler, and others

The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober Audiobook By Catherine Gray cover art
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
  • The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

  • Discovering a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Alcohol-Free Life
  • By: Catherine Gray
  • Narrated by: Catherine Gray
  • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,704
  • Performance
    1,471
  • Story
    1,468

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Gray's tale of going sober is uplifting and inspiring' - The Evening Standard 'An icon of the Quit Lit movement' - Condé Nast Traveller 'Fascinating' - Bryony Gordon 'Not remotely preachy' - The Times 'Jaunty, shrewd and convincing' - Sunday Telegraph 'Admirably...

  • Best Book on This Subject!

  • By Polly on 05-14-20

By: Catherine Gray

The Tennis Partner Audiobook By Abraham Verghese cover art
The Tennis Partner
  • The Tennis Partner

  • A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
  • By: Abraham Verghese
  • Narrated by: Neil Shah
  • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    685
  • Performance
    627
  • Story
    627

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick. “Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an...

  • Started slowly

  • By Mark on 02-14-26

By: Abraham Verghese

Alcohol Explained Audiobook By William Porter cover art
Alcohol Explained
  • Alcohol Explained

  • By: William Porter
  • Narrated by: Nick Jermyn
  • Length: 6 hrs
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    2,409
  • Performance
    2,049
  • Story
    2,030

Alcohol Explained is the definitive, ground-breaking guide to alcohol and alcoholism. It explains how alcohol affects human beings on a chemical, physiological, and psychological level, from those first drinks right up to chronic alcoholism....

  • Life Changing

  • By GlassHalfFull on 04-12-19

By: William Porter

A Clean Mess Audiobook By Tiffany Jenkins cover art
A Clean Mess
  • A Clean Mess

  • A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb
  • By: Tiffany Jenkins
  • Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
  • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,384
  • Performance
    1,355
  • Story
    1,355

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of High Achiever chronicles life after addiction—the raw, the dark, and the hilarious—from setting out with nothing but a backpack to discovering her marriage was built on a shakier foundation than she’d ever imagined to staying sober...

  • Better than the first book!

  • By Daniela Rodriguez on 06-03-25

By: Tiffany Jenkins

Live Naked AF Audiobook By Annie Grace cover art
Live Naked AF
  • Live Naked AF

  • A Joyful Approach to Living Alcohol Free
  • By: Annie Grace
  • Narrated by: Annie Grace
  • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    25
  • Performance
    25
  • Story
    25

The author of This Naked Mind provides a guide to navigating what’s next after you find freedom from alcohol Annie Grace started her journey to sobriety by asking herself a simple question: Why was she drinking so much despite wanting to stop? Ultimately, her science-based approach revealed...

  • I get it now

  • By Amazon Customer on 01-12-26

By: Annie Grace

Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven Audiobook By Bill P., Todd W., Sara S. cover art
Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven
  • Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

  • By: Bill P., Todd W., Sara S.
  • Narrated by: Derik Hendrickson
  • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    561
  • Performance
    471
  • Story
    471

Based on the principles behind "Steps Six and Seven", Drop the Rock combines personal stories, practical advice, and powerful insights to help listeners move forward in recovery....

  • Poor Recording

  • By Richard T. Law on 03-04-19

By: Bill P., and others

High Achiever Audiobook By Tiffany Jenkins cover art
High Achiever
  • High Achiever

  • The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
  • By: Tiffany Jenkins
  • Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
  • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    13,669
  • Performance
    12,270
  • Story
    12,221

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. Tiffany’s story continues in the New York Times bestseller A Clean Mess, available now!...

  • I Get it, You Were an Addict

  • By Jim Thompson on 10-16-19

By: Tiffany Jenkins

How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics Audiobook By Al-Anon Family Groups cover art
How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics
  • How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics

  • By: Al-Anon Family Groups
  • Narrated by: Anonymous members of Al-Anon Family Groups
  • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    381
  • Performance
    331
  • Story
    327

Al-Anon's basic book discusses the mutual-help program of recovery, including personal stories. A beginning approach to the Twelve Concepts of Service is included.

  • Worth it, even though it needs pro recording!

  • By SweetDreamsCRTT on 06-26-15

By: Al-Anon Family Groups

Breathing Under Water Audiobook By Richard Rohr, Anne Lamott - introduction cover art
Breathing Under Water
  • Breathing Under Water

  • Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
  • By: Richard Rohr, Anne Lamott - introduction
  • Narrated by: Drew Jackson
  • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5
  • Performance
    5
  • Story
    5

The beloved, landmark book illuminating the spiritual journey of untangling our lives from addiction, from the bestselling author of The Tears of Things and The Universal Christ Brother Rohr may just take you to places you’ve both avoided and longed for—to truth, union, joy, laughter, and...

By: Richard Rohr, and others

We Are the Luckiest Audiobook By Laura McKowen cover art
We Are the Luckiest
  • We Are the Luckiest

  • The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
  • By: Laura McKowen
  • Narrated by: Laura McKowen
  • Length: 7 hrs
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    2,752
  • Performance
    2,387
  • Story
    2,377

A frank, fresh, and empowering take on facing addiction, doing recovery, and savoring the joys of a new way of living....

  • Influencer Recovery, Part One

  • By Keith Keller on 01-31-20

By: Laura McKowen

Beautiful Boy Audiobook By David Sheff cover art
Beautiful Boy
  • Beautiful Boy

  • A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
  • By: David Sheff
  • Narrated by: Anthony Heald
  • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4,494
  • Performance
    3,691
  • Story
    3,688

The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne Lamott Now a Major Motion Picture...

  • Been There

  • By Happy Reader on 11-26-12

By: David Sheff

Beyond Addiction Audiobook By Jeffrey Foote PhD, Carrie Wilkens PhD, Nicole Kosanke PhD, Stephanie Higgs PhD cover art
Beyond Addiction
  • Beyond Addiction

  • How Science and Kindness Help People Change
  • By: Jeffrey Foote PhD, Carrie Wilkens PhD, Nicole Kosanke PhD, and others
  • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
  • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    219
  • Performance
    186
  • Story
    178

Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help their loved ones change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical...

  • No PDF with supplemental

  • By Zena on 01-23-18

By: Jeffrey Foote PhD, and others

The Sober Shift Audiobook By Suzanne Warye cover art
The Sober Shift
  • The Sober Shift

  • A Modern-Day Guide to Living an Abundant Sober Life
  • By: Suzanne Warye
  • Narrated by: Suzanne Warye
  • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    85
  • Performance
    83
  • Story
    83

Live fully, abundantly, and free every day without alcohol with this inspiring guide from wellness writer Suzanne Warye, the creator behind the Sober Mom Life podcast and My Kind of Sweet. Waking up with another hangover as the thirty-nine-year-old mother of a newborn, Suzanne Warye decided...

  • Her honesty and non judgmental attitude

  • By Mad on 10-02-25

By: Suzanne Warye

New releases

Hangxiety Audiobook By Millie Gooch cover art
Hangxiety
  • Hangxiety

  • How Alcohol Messes with Your Mind
  • By: Millie Gooch
  • Narrated by: Millie Gooch
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0
  • Performance
    0
  • Story
    0

What alcohol is really doing to your brain, mood and mental health – and why the effects can last beyond the hangover. ‘An intensely personal and scientifically grounded overview.’ – Professor David Nutt, neuropsychopharmacologist and founder of Drug Science Have you ever asked yourself...

By: Millie Gooch

Sober Mom Audiobook By Elizabeth Jannuzzi cover art
Sober Mom
  • Sober Mom

  • A Memoir
  • By: Elizabeth Jannuzzi
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jannuzzi
  • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0
  • Performance
    0
  • Story
    0

For fans of The Many Lives of Mama Love and the many women struggling with addiction while raising families, a candid recovery memoir chronicling one suburban New Jersey mother's journey from secret vodka binges to sobriety. Liz Jannuzzi's life is unraveling: a failing marriage, three young...

By: Elizabeth Jannuzzi

OA Members Who Have Lost 100 Pounds or More Audiobook By Overeaters Anonymous cover art
OA Members Who Have Lost 100 Pounds or More
  • OA Members Who Have Lost 100 Pounds or More

  • Recovery One Day at a Time
  • By: Overeaters Anonymous
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 34 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0
  • Performance
    0
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Members of OA who have been more than 100 pounds (45 kg) overweight share unique experiences. This all-new set of stories illuminates how members like you experience incredible life changes by working our OA program. Read these testimonials, share them with your home meeting, and find that “No matter where you begin, recovery is yours for the taking.” Board-approved literature. © 2026 Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. Note: If you have purchased this publication in the past, for the most up-to-date version of this publication, please download and replace your previously purchased e-book.

By: Overeaters Anonymous

12 Steps to Transformation Audiobook By Rick Bayuk cover art
12 Steps to Transformation
  • 12 Steps to Transformation

  • Moving Beyond a Recovery Mindset to an Empowerment Mindset
  • By: Rick Bayuk
  • Narrated by: Rick Bayuk, Dan Strutzel
  • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
  • Unabridged
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12 Steps to Transformation is a powerful reimagining of the Twelve Steps—not as a system for fixing what’s broken, but as a proven framework for becoming who you were meant to be. Originally written for men in recovery, this expanded and updated edition shows how the timeless wisdom of the Steps can be applied to overcoming any limiting habit, pattern, or identity that keeps you stuck.

By: Rick Bayuk

Reconnecting With Yourself Audiobook By Rene Sims cover art
Reconnecting With Yourself
  • Reconnecting With Yourself

  • Understanding Why You No Longer Feel Like Yourself After Discovering Your Husband's Pornography Addiction
  • By: Rene Sims
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 18 mins
  • Unabridged
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When you find out your husband has been hiding compulsive pornography use, you don't just lose trust in him; you start to lose trust in yourself. You might look in the mirror and barely recognize the woman looking back. You’ve spent so much time monitoring his behavior, keeping his secrets, and trying to manage the crisis that you've lost touch with your own hobbies, interests, and needs. If you feel like a stranger to yourself and are exhausted from building your whole life around his addiction, Reconnecting with Yourself was written for you. In this guide, the third book in the Honest ...

By: Rene Sims

ADDICTION & RECOVERY Summarized Audiobook By Devon Kade cover art
ADDICTION & RECOVERY Summarized
  • ADDICTION & RECOVERY Summarized

  • Substance Abuse, Dopamine Recovery, and the Path to Sobriety
  • By: Devon Kade
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Stop blaming your willpower. Start rewiring your brain. Society has long whispered the dangerous lie that addiction is a moral failing or a lack of character. But modern science has unequivocally moved past this stigmatizing model. Addiction is not a weakness; it is a complex, chronic brain disorder characterized by severe neuroplastic alterations within your reward and stress systems. Unfortunately, the crucial research required to understand and reverse these neurobiological changes is too often locked away in dense clinical texts and inaccessible academic halls. In ADDICTION & RECOVERY ...

By: Devon Kade

Hangxiety Audiobook By Millie Gooch cover art
Hangxiety
  • Hangxiety

  • How Alcohol Messes with Your Mind
  • By: Millie Gooch
  • Narrated by: Millie Gooch
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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What alcohol is really doing to your brain, mood and mental health – and why the effects can last beyond the hangover. ‘An intensely personal and scientifically grounded overview.’ – Professor David Nutt, neuropsychopharmacologist and founder of Drug Science Have you ever asked yourself...

By: Millie Gooch

Sober Mom Audiobook By Elizabeth Jannuzzi cover art
Sober Mom
  • Sober Mom

  • A Memoir
  • By: Elizabeth Jannuzzi
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jannuzzi
  • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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For fans of The Many Lives of Mama Love and the many women struggling with addiction while raising families, a candid recovery memoir chronicling one suburban New Jersey mother's journey from secret vodka binges to sobriety. Liz Jannuzzi's life is unraveling: a failing marriage, three young...

By: Elizabeth Jannuzzi

OA Members Who Have Lost 100 Pounds or More Audiobook By Overeaters Anonymous cover art
OA Members Who Have Lost 100 Pounds or More
  • OA Members Who Have Lost 100 Pounds or More

  • Recovery One Day at a Time
  • By: Overeaters Anonymous
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 34 mins
  • Unabridged
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Members of OA who have been more than 100 pounds (45 kg) overweight share unique experiences. This all-new set of stories illuminates how members like you experience incredible life changes by working our OA program. Read these testimonials, share them with your home meeting, and find that “No matter where you begin, recovery is yours for the taking.” Board-approved literature. © 2026 Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. Note: If you have purchased this publication in the past, for the most up-to-date version of this publication, please download and replace your previously purchased e-book.

By: Overeaters Anonymous

12 Steps to Transformation Audiobook By Rick Bayuk cover art
12 Steps to Transformation
  • 12 Steps to Transformation

  • Moving Beyond a Recovery Mindset to an Empowerment Mindset
  • By: Rick Bayuk
  • Narrated by: Rick Bayuk, Dan Strutzel
  • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
  • Unabridged
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12 Steps to Transformation is a powerful reimagining of the Twelve Steps—not as a system for fixing what’s broken, but as a proven framework for becoming who you were meant to be. Originally written for men in recovery, this expanded and updated edition shows how the timeless wisdom of the Steps can be applied to overcoming any limiting habit, pattern, or identity that keeps you stuck.

By: Rick Bayuk

Reconnecting With Yourself Audiobook By Rene Sims cover art
Reconnecting With Yourself
  • Reconnecting With Yourself

  • Understanding Why You No Longer Feel Like Yourself After Discovering Your Husband's Pornography Addiction
  • By: Rene Sims
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 18 mins
  • Unabridged
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When you find out your husband has been hiding compulsive pornography use, you don't just lose trust in him; you start to lose trust in yourself. You might look in the mirror and barely recognize the woman looking back. You’ve spent so much time monitoring his behavior, keeping his secrets, and trying to manage the crisis that you've lost touch with your own hobbies, interests, and needs. If you feel like a stranger to yourself and are exhausted from building your whole life around his addiction, Reconnecting with Yourself was written for you. In this guide, the third book in the Honest ...

By: Rene Sims

ADDICTION & RECOVERY Summarized Audiobook By Devon Kade cover art
ADDICTION & RECOVERY Summarized
  • ADDICTION & RECOVERY Summarized

  • Substance Abuse, Dopamine Recovery, and the Path to Sobriety
  • By: Devon Kade
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
  • Unabridged
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Stop blaming your willpower. Start rewiring your brain. Society has long whispered the dangerous lie that addiction is a moral failing or a lack of character. But modern science has unequivocally moved past this stigmatizing model. Addiction is not a weakness; it is a complex, chronic brain disorder characterized by severe neuroplastic alterations within your reward and stress systems. Unfortunately, the crucial research required to understand and reverse these neurobiological changes is too often locked away in dense clinical texts and inaccessible academic halls. In ADDICTION & RECOVERY ...

By: Devon Kade

The Number Isn't One Audiobook By Andrew Yoon Joo Lee cover art
The Number Isn't One
  • The Number Isn't One

  • Why Global Statistics on Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disagree—and What They Really Reveal
  • By: Andrew Yoon Joo Lee
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
  • Unabridged
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Ask how many people struggle with compulsive sexual behavior and the world answers with a crowd of incompatible percentages. The disagreement is not statistical clutter. It is the story. The Number Isn't One shows why estimates change when researchers change the construct, instrument, cutoff, sample, time window, recruitment channel, language, culture, or rule for separating distress from disorder. Drawing on official classifications, peer-reviewed studies, reproduced country tables, and original cross-study analysis, Andrew Yoon Joo Lee gives every percentage its passport. With special ...

By: Andrew Yoon Joo Lee

One Day, One Step: The AA 12-Step Workbook Audiobook By Ralph Broussard cover art
One Day, One Step: The AA 12-Step Workbook
  • One Day, One Step: The AA 12-Step Workbook

  • 365 Guided Prompts to Work Every Step, Overcome Overwhelm, and Achieve Lasting Sobriety
  • By: Ralph Broussard
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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When Sarah opened her Step Four notebook on day seventeen of sobriety, her hand froze above the blank page—and by evening, she had relapsed. If you are struggling to maintain daily sobriety between weekly meetings, traditional recovery texts can feel too abstract to apply to modern anxieties. This book is a practical, 12-step workbook designed by a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor to bridge the gap between fellowship principles and behavioral science. It translates abstract recovery steps into a structured, day-by-day writing ritual with spacious on-the-page writing areas. ...

By: Ralph Broussard

The Body Before the Choice Audiobook By Andrew Yoon Joo Lee cover art
The Body Before the Choice
  • The Body Before the Choice

  • What Happens Before, During, and After Compulsive Sexual Behavior—and How to Interrupt the Loop
  • By: Andrew Yoon Joo Lee
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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By the time a choice feels urgent, the sequence may have been running for hours. The Body Before the Choice follows the whole clock of compulsive sexual behavior—from ordinary baseline and vulnerability stacking through cue, arousal, wanting, attention, permission, ritual, acting out, immediate aftermath, and the second loop. Instead of selling a universal dopamine story, Andrew Yoon Joo Lee separates direct CSBD evidence from adjacent problematic-pornography research, general physiology, and practical synthesis. Each stage includes the earliest safe interruption, what not to do, and when...

By: Andrew Yoon Joo Lee

Escape Nicotine—Permanently Audiobook By Dr. Peter F. Kruger cover art
Escape Nicotine—Permanently
  • Escape Nicotine—Permanently

  • A Doctor’s Thirty-Year Journey to Freedom. How the Principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Can Help You Stop Without Willpower.
  • By: Dr. Peter F. Kruger
  • Narrated by: Paul R. Wilkinson Jr.
  • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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You were never weak. You were conned. Nicotine never gave you anything. It installed an itch, sold you relief from that itch, and called the relief pleasure. That is the Nicotine Trick. Dr. Peter F Kruger knew the science. He also spent nearly thirty years caught in the same cycle of cigarettes, vaping, quitting, and returning. Information was not enough. Willpower was not the answer. The real obstacle was the story nicotine had taught him to believe.

By: Dr. Peter F. Kruger

Kush: The Synthetic Trap Audiobook By Dr. Leahnata Davies cover art
Kush: The Synthetic Trap
  • Kush: The Synthetic Trap

  • Youth, Mental Health, and Sierra Leone’s Struggle
  • By: Dr. Leahnata Davies
  • Narrated by: Carys Penrose
  • Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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A national crisis. A silent epidemic. A generation at risk. In KUSH: The Synthetic Trap – Youth, Mental Health, and Sierra Leone’s Struggle, the devastating truth behind one of West Africa’s most pressing social emergencies is laid bare. This powerful and deeply researched book unpacks the rise of Kush—a deadly synthetic drug ravaging the minds and futures of Sierra Leone’s youth—and explores its far-reaching consequences on mental health, education, national development, and public safety.

By: Dr. Leahnata Davies

The Sober Christmas Survival Guide Audiobook By Ben T. cover art
The Sober Christmas Survival Guide
  • The Sober Christmas Survival Guide

  • Staying Sober During the Holidays and Committed to Recovery Through Holiday Gatherings and Family Events
  • By: Ben T.
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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The holidays are supposed to be a time of joy, connection, and celebration—but when you're protecting your sobriety, they can also bring pressure, temptation, loneliness, stress, and difficult memories. The Sober Christmas Survival Guide is your sober holiday survival guide. It’s a practical, compassionate guide to recovery during the holiday season—staying committed to recovery during one of the most challenging times of the year, with all its holiday triggers and sobriety issues. Whether you're facing alcohol-filled parties, uncomfortable family gatherings, pressure from friends to ...

By: Ben T.

Counterfeit Fulfillment Audiobook By Christopher Voss MD cover art
Counterfeit Fulfillment
  • Counterfeit Fulfillment

  • How Conditioning Fuels Addiction—and How Integration Restores Freedom
  • By: Christopher Voss MD
  • Narrated by: Adam Schulmerich
  • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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Why do people return to what they know is harming them? Because addiction is rarely just about pleasure. More often, it is about relief. In Counterfeit Fulfillment, physician-scientist Christopher Voss, MD presents a powerful new framework for understanding addiction: not as moral failure or weak will, but as a learned attempt to meet a real human need—peace, belonging, numbness, control, escape, comfort—through a substitute that works fast but never truly satisfies.

By: Christopher Voss MD

Outgrow Porn Audiobook By Drew Boa cover art
Outgrow Porn
  • Outgrow Porn

  • Find Lasting Freedom Without Fighting an Exhausting Battle—A Man's Guide to Healing
  • By: Drew Boa
  • Narrated by: Drew Boa
  • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Find lasting freedom from porn —without fighting an exhausting battle. Are you tired of trying to quit porn? Do you feel frustrated every time you go back to it? What if you could not only stop watching porn, but also reach a point where you no longer need it anymore? Good news: there’s a proven way to strip porn of its seductive power. Outgrow Porn will help you…Realize exactly why pornography has power over youUnderstand your sexual fantasies and porn preferencesPrevent relapse with strategies backed by neurosciencePorn is not your real problem; it’s a solution you’ve learned to depend on.

By: Drew Boa

How Porn Addiction Cost Me Everything Audiobook By Daniel Vance cover art
How Porn Addiction Cost Me Everything
  • How Porn Addiction Cost Me Everything

  • By: Daniel Vance
  • Narrated by: AI Voice Daniel Ashby
  • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Porn didn't wreck my life in one night. It took fifteen years, and it took them quietly. A few minutes here. A closed laptop there. Nobody notices the house is burning until they're standing outside it, watching the roof cave in. I lost the woman I...

By: Daniel Vance

Compulsive Habits, Relapse and Behavioral Addiction Audiobook By Mark Sutherland cover art
Compulsive Habits, Relapse and Behavioral Addiction
  • Compulsive Habits, Relapse and Behavioral Addiction

  • The Science of Breaking the Loop
  • By: Mark Sutherland
  • Narrated by: AI Voice Mark Sutherland
  • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
  • Unabridged
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You've promised yourself it was the last time. You meant it. And you did it again three days later anyway. This isn't a book about being weak. It's about a piece of brain machinery so efficient it once kept you alive — now aimed at a slot machine, a...

By: Mark Sutherland

My Raging Battle with Alcoholism Almost Stole My Soul, Mind, and My Life Audiobook By Donnie Donskie Bolena, Donnie Bolena co
My Raging Battle with Alcoholism Almost Stole My Soul, Mind, and My Life
  • My Raging Battle with Alcoholism Almost Stole My Soul, Mind, and My Life

  • By: Donnie Donskie Bolena, Donnie Bolena
  • Narrated by: Donnie Donskie Bolena
  • Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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I am a 61-year-old Christian man of God, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a brother. My name is Donnie “Donskie” Bolena, and I have spent over forty years in the school of hard knocks—a university where the tuition is paid in pain, regret, and near-death experiences. For most of those years, I thought I was simply living life to the fullest. I didn't realize that I was actually engaging in a raging battle that was slowly stealing my mind, my soul, and my life.

By: Donnie Donskie Bolena, and others

How to Talk to Girls at Parties Audiobook By Teddy Tarantino cover art
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties

  • By: Teddy Tarantino
  • Narrated by: Teddy Tarantino
  • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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My name is Bryan and I’m an addict. I believe I was born an addict. I heard someone once say, “If you’re an addict, drugs will find yo ass.” Well, drugs found my ass when I was 9 years old and I fell madly in love with them. By 14, I had done almost every drug on the planet, but I was married to crack and OxyContin. When I was 17, I filed for divorce and I’ve been clean ever since. This book is a compilation of my real-life diaries of my first year clean. As I write this, I’m 34 years old—clean for 17 years. I’m a successful business owner.

By: Teddy Tarantino

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