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Whether addicted or not, we all have stories to tell. The stories of tragedy and redemption found within Tales of Addiction are not about the well known celebrities you find in the usual tabloids. Rather, these stories are true-grit tales told by people you will never meet but whose words will haunt you for months, years maybe. The author collected the stories for over two years through a "call for stories" she put in journals, workshops and lectures. Interwoven throughout, Barbara and her son share their own story of pain and struggle.

Each year, more Americans die of drug abuse than the total of those who perished during the Vietnam War. This is the amazing and inspirational true story of an addict named Andrew and how he was able to overcome his addiction even though the odds were stacked against him. Andrew grew up in an unimaginably abusive family. His life seemed normal on the outside, but the internal turmoil he was experiencing was a horrific ordeal.

The first thing to do before you start your written Fourth Step is to read pages 63-71 in the book Alcoholics Anonymous, affectionately known as the "Big Book" by A.A. members. Also read the chapter on the Fourth Step in the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Your fourth step inventory is not an exercise in beating yourself up. Be thoroughly honest and fair with yourself. The checklists included with this guide are merely suggestions. You must decide for yourself how they fit with your own moral code. Do not be limited by this list - -it's okay to add other items you feel are relevant...

In his recovery from drugs and alcohol, Chris Grosso has stumbled, staggered, and started all over again. In an effort to understand why he relapses, and why many of us return to the myriad of other self-defeating behaviors despite our better judgment, he went to best-selling authors, spiritual teachers, psychologists, doctors, and more, and asked them why we tend to repeat mistakes in our lives, even when we know these actions will harm us and the ones we love. In Dead Set on Living, Chris shares these intimate conversations and the practices that have taught him.

This is a bi-racial pastor's struggle with acceptance, opioid addiction, mental health disorder, and road to recovery.

Drug Addiction: Breaking the Chains of Addiction for Improved Health, Relationships, and Overall Happiness provides useful information to help people understand the cost of addiction, and it outlines a proven plan to help people overcome drug addiction. Drug Addiction: Breaking the Chains of Addiction for Improved Health, Relationships, and Overall Happiness has the potential to help you or a loved one who is afflicted by any addiction, not just drug addiction.

Drug use turns into abuse and addiction when the person begins experiencing urges and cravings. At this point, the user's mind finds a way to rationalize the addiction or deny that they even have a problem. The user begins to lose control over their drug use and may even underestimate the amount of drugs they are taking. While the amount of drugs a person takes does not necessarily indicate a problem, it is often an indicator of drug addiction.

Staying Clean and Sober is a relapse prevention guide and workbook for people dealing with alcoholism and drug use. In this book, you will understand the relapse process, determine what to do if you relapse, identify situations that put you at high risk for relapse, take steps to avoid high risk situations, make a relapse prevention plan that will greatly reduce your chances of relapsing, and how to build a support network that will help you stay clean and sober. As soon as a person begins to change, their surroundings will change. People with good attitudes have one thing in common: they ...

The life and times of Joseph Richard Poole, aka Joey Image, legendary drummer for THE MISFITS and many other punk groups. Joey's tumultuous road through life, his musical career and his struggle with addiction is narrated in a graphic and raw rendition. This memoir follows him from his youth and life as a punk rock drummer, his loves and losses and his fights with his personal demons. What unfolds is a disturbing story told in explicit detail — often sad and tragic. The authors created a true to life narrative of individual, social and spiritual devastation — while ultimately finding ...

Living on the street, Dr. George ran a prostitution and drug dealing business to feed his addiction to sex and drugs. His life spiraled out of control, leading him to the confines of a prison cell. When released on probation he risked it all on a drug blow out. This was the catalyst that started an intentional climb towards a life of freedom. In this book, Dr. George guides the listener through his personal story and how he used the power of intention to change his life.

This book is the ultimate guide to achieve the quality of life you deserve and break the sex addiction cycle for good. This is a book for those who have longed to break the sex addiction cycle as well as for those who are in relationships with individuals struggling with sex addiction. This book is based on evidence and is written by a health psychology professional. By learning to work through the causes and utilize evidence-based tools, you will feel more centered, more joyous, more confident, and cope better with emotions and life's stressors.

Welcome to Vaping 101. As a physician and a parent, I know that you have questions about vaping. This comprehensive guide was designed to answer all of your questions and more. It will educate you on vaping and arm you with the information you need to educate your family and friends in hopes that they decide to stop or, hopefully, never even start to use electronic cigarettes.

If drinking and using were our only problem, then once we stopped using, all our problems would disappear. We can see why recovery is so difficult and elusive, and why so many people struggle to get well. This is why it is so important to start your recovery with the spiritual principle of surrender. We can't defeat addiction in the traditional sense. The solution is paradoxical: victory is accomplished through surrender. Most of our life has been spent trying to be perfect. This has been proven to be a futile existence. Now we need to learn how to become more human. Ed Haych's Get Sober ...

In 2006, after years of feeling powerless to help those addicted to opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants, general practitioner Dr. Arun Gupta joined the American Society of Addiction Medicine and earned his certification to treat patients with addictions. Now, in his eye-opening new book, after decades of research and first-hand experience, he tells us how to end this crisis that is destroying so many lives.

He was lost because of the addiction, broken from his past, and ashamed of the lifestyle he lived. An Injection of Faith: One Addict’s Journey to Deliverance, is a story of hope, love, and forgiveness from one man’s life with addictions. Author Anthony Ordille reveals his life of drugs and bar living, and how he found freedom from this crippling disease. He will walk you through the paths he took, how they ended, bring you through his years spent in recovery, and end with some of the happiest times he has experienced. Discover: What his childhood was like, how he dealt with his pain, ...

A cry for help that offers hope to all addicts This book tells the story of the Spirit Andre K, who in 1995, was given permission to tell his story, after undergoing years of recovery treatment in the Spirit realm, which included participating in a weekly seance meeting held by a group of incarnate mediums. In this group, through the medium Maria Gorete Newton, he described his tragic death by drug overdose, which took place in 1975, while he was still a teenager living in Zurich, Switzerland. It is a richly descriptive narrative for parents, children and society, offering a glimpse of the ...

A self-help audiobook like no other. From the author of the best-selling Hard Time, and seen on Locked Up Abroad, Shaun Attwood took his business degree to Phoenix, Arizona, where he became an award winning stockbroker and then a millionaire day trader during the dot-com bubble. But Shaun became greedy and lost sight of what was important. Lessons from a Drug Lord is his account of the time Shaun spent submerged in a nightmarish world of drugs and gangs.

Elizabeth Burton-Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children. She never imagined that her identical twin sons, who had been doing so well at school, would become involved in drugs. She was shocked when they were suspended from school for smoking cannabis, but this was just the start of a terrible, unimaginable journey - culminating in the knock on the door in the early hours by the police. They gave her the devastating news that her son Nick had killed himself in despair at his heroin addiction.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a graphic, honest, autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its profound effect on his life. Confessions was the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him lasting fame. This intensely riveting audiobook edition is therefore a must for all those interested in the pharmacological arts, altered states, the pitfalls of addiction, and the age-old quest for expanded consciousness.

I have been a hardcore junkie for many years and I am certain that I will never stop using heroin or any other street drug. I love to get high. Point-blank. I’m sure I will overdose again and my body will be found in a gutter somewhere in Los Angeles.