The Everything Health Guide to Addiction and Recovery
eBook - ePub

The Everything Health Guide to Addiction and Recovery

Control your behavior and build a better life

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Everything Health Guide to Addiction and Recovery

Control your behavior and build a better life

About this book

For the more than 27 million Americans currently battling an addiction, recognizing the problem and seeking treatment is a tremendous challenge. This guide helps addicts and their families understand the nature of the disease so they can get the help they need. Because so many suffer from overlapping addictions, this book addresses a wide range of addictions including alcohol, prescription drugs, food, sex, gambling, shopping, and smoking. Learn how to identify symptoms and causes, overcome social obstacles, decide on the right treatment program, avoid relapse, and more. With this book by their side, addicts will come to understand themselves and how to treat their addiction so they can live happy, healthy, substance-free lives!

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Information

Publisher
Everything
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781598698060
eBook ISBN
9781605507804
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Diseases & Allergies

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: The Nature of Addiction
  8. Chapter 2: Identifying Addiction
  9. Chapter 3: What Causes Addiction?
  10. Chapter 4: Cultural Lures and Addiction
  11. Chapter 5: Alcohol Addiction
  12. Chapter 6: Substance Addiction
  13. Chapter 7: Nicotine Addiction
  14. Chapter 8: Prescription Drug Addiction
  15. Chapter 9: Food Addiction
  16. Chapter 10: Behavioral Addictions
  17. Chapter 11: Gambling Addiction
  18. Chapter 12: Relational Addictions
  19. Chapter 13: Pornography Addiction
  20. Chapter 14: Technology and Addiction
  21. Chapter 15: Roadblocks to Treatment
  22. Chapter 16: Additional Treatment Options
  23. Chapter 17: Recovery
  24. Chapter 18: Relapse Prevention
  25. Chapter 19: Real-Life Considerations
  26. Chapter 20: How Addictions Affect Family Members
  27. Chapter 21: Hope for a Balanced Life
  28. Appendix A
  29. Appendix B

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