Substance Use Disorder

For the past decade, author Tian Dayton has been researching trauma and addiction, and how psychodrama (or sociometry group psychotherapy) can be used in their treatment. This latest book identifies the interconnection of trauma and addictive behavior, and shows why they can become an unending cycle. This groundbreaking audiobook offers listeners effective ways to work through their traumas in order to heal their addictions and their predilection toward what clinicians call self-medicating.

To solve a problem one must first understand the problem. Unfortunately, that's hard to do with addiction and alcoholism because it makes no sense. Why do people keep on with their substance use when it's ruining their life and making them miserable? Ironically, most people who try to help an addict become too involved in the problem, which may do more harm than good. They get drawn into the addict's circle of chaos, and end up participating in the addiction by being enablers. This creates chaos and insanity in their own life, and does nothing to stop the addiction. In this important book, ...

Straight from the journals of a raging, bipolar alcoholic: Sabrina Rose comes clean about her thirty years of being dirty and dying. Raw. Unflinching. Unapologetically human. Thirty, Dirty, & Dying is the harrowing and healing memoir of a woman who clawed her way through the wreckage of childhood trauma, addiction, and bipolar disorder—and lived to write about it. Told with brutal honesty and piercing clarity, this book is not just a survival story—it’s a reckoning. Raised in the shadow of abuse and silence, Sabrina spent years unraveling in private, hiding pain behind bottles, self-...

"This book will blow your mind! The amount of research and insight puts it in a class of its own. Couldn’t put it down. So authentic and raw, loved it!" - Amazon reviewer I'm writing these books because I'm tired of watching my friends die. Everything that we have done in America to deal with the opioid epidemic has made us drastically worse, and people don't seem to realize it. Irresponsible, profit-mongering pharmaceutical companies created millions of addicts like me. By becoming acquainted with the power and peace that a pocketful of oxy can bring an anxious teenager, readers will ...

In The Substance of Consciousness, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. The authors present the most comprehensive, up-to-date work on substance dualism in the field, as well as a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years.

This book introduces the philosophies, research, and lived experience behind Parallel Recovery®, which is not a “step” program like traditional models, but a practical and deeply human path to healing for the whole family.

"Why can't they just stop?" "They know it's killing them, so? Just Stop! "Don't they love us enough?" How many of us have said that about people stuck in the world of addiction? Addiction isn't about loving or not loving someone. Do you think they want to be that way? Do you really think they want to cause you heartache and pain? NO, Inside this book, you will read stories from all sides to help shine a light on some of these questions. I won't say answers because every story is unique. Just like addiction, not one way works for everyone. That is why it is so hard to grasp and understand. ...

Measure the amount of the Word of God within you - that is the measure of your faith! When the Word of God gets inside you, it creates an image in its own kind. When that image is perfected inside you, then you have faith. Charles Capps has written this powerful and anointed book to instruct you in how to perfect that image of faith inside you to help you increase your faith. You have faith, but in order to fully receive from God, you must learn how to act on it and learn what speaking the Word of Faith really means.

Paul F. Davis has overcome three generations of substance abuse in his family and knows the keys to freedom and optimal health. A former lifeguard, personal fitness trainer, health coach, nutritional consultant, and worldwide motivational speaker; Paul has touched 76 nations serving the U.S. Military, Companies, Cruise Lines, Schools, Colleges and Universities across the globe. Learn the 5 substances most commonly abused and how to combat emotional pain with healthy strategies to prevent and break the chains of addiction. Learn the tricks of the pharmaceutical companies, physicians, and ...

Today, millions of Americans are facing an epidemic of addiction. Alcohol, opiates, stimulants, and gambling have become common, with as many as one in four families searching for a way to recover their lives. These patterns include other behavioral issues, including screen time, sexual behaviors, compulsive eating, and shopping.

Two acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour - Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on the eve of that tour, the band’s troubled lead singer, Ian Curtis, killed himself. The next time they got together, they were a new band. That band was New Order - their label was Factory Records; their club, The Haçienda. Their distinctive sound paved the way for the dance music explosion that followed, earning them the reputation as one of the most influential bands of their generation and changing the course of popular music.

Behold the final saga in the chronicles of a gay alcoholic's quest for enlightenment, recounting twenty-six years and culminating in the wisdom and gratitude he achieved during those tumultuous decades. Charlie Gray concludes his tale of recovery from addiction and embracing his identity by exploring where it all began and journeying back to the summer of 1996, age ten, on Truman Lake at his family’s quaint fishing resort. A brief glimpse of Charlie’s idyllic childhood unfolds before it is abruptly brought to an end by the untimely death of his mother shortly after his thirteenth ...

In "Regarding Substance Abuse and Addiction (RSAA)," Craig A Williamson offers a powerful, real-world guide through the challenging journey of addiction. Drawing from personal experience, this book provides practical insights and understanding for individuals and their loved ones navigating the complexities of substance use disorders. Craig's brilliant, straightforward writing sheds light on what we all need to know.

The second entry in a trilogy unlike any other, following a gay alcoholic's quest for sobriety. Once again, Charlie Gray has lost control, spending his days drunk on vodka and facing staggering legal troubles. In The Frog’s Bottle, the second in his trilogy of quit lit memoirs, Charlie finds himself trapped by his old nemesis, relapse. With his fourth arrest for a DUI, the possibility of prison looming, and the terror of knocking at death’s door stirring in the back of his mind, Charlie admits himself to his fifth rehab in two years, Meadowlark Renewal, a quaint residential treatment ...

How to beat an opioid addiction, transition to a healthy lifestyle, and regain control of your life.... If you’ve fallen prey to the clutches of drugs, with the right tools it’s never too late to say “no” to them and get yourself back on the path of health and real well-being.

Learn how 101 people with one to 49 years of long-term recovery from substance use disorders get and stay sober without addictive medication. They provide proven methods to end the addiction crisis and reduce the chance of relapse.