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Status:Available A.A. in Prison: Inmate to Inmate
Published: 1991
Personal stories of recovery as told by 32 inmates who found sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous. These people share their experiences in the hope others will find support and strength in AA... Details >>
Status:Available A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps
Published: 1994
A guide for women that speaks to the way they experience addiction as well as self, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, & everyday life... Details >>
Status:Available Addictions Counseling
Published: 1992
A counselor's handbook which is both readable and comprehensive. Significantly, the recovery methods of AA and rational emotive therapy are shown to be complementary, an approach the author has used successfully in her own practice... Details >>
Status:Available Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1983
Offers knowledge and understanding of what it means to be the child of an alcoholic, and how this process evolves over time. Can be used as a self-help or clinical guide in working toward individual growth & as a basis for discussion groups of Adult Child.. Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism
Published: 1965
Powerful articles by noted doctors & counselors examine the adverse effects alcoholism has on the family & friends of alcoholics. Each writer emphasizes the importance of helping these other victims of the disease, & the positive nature of the help availa.. Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon's Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions
Published: 1981
Thousands of people around the world have been restored to joyful living by practicing the principles embodied in Al-Anon's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, which are readily adapted to healing personal relationships... Details >>
Status:Available Alateen - Hope for Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1973
The story of Alateen, which is a part of the Al-Anon Family Groups, the fellowship of people whose lives are being or have been affected by close contact with a problem drinker. It tells of their fears, their problems, their hopes, and their achievements.. Details >>
Status:Available Alateen - A Day At A Time
Published: 1983
The message of this collection of thoughts is simple: "Yesterday is gone and tomorrow isn't here, so I can only live for today." If we take time to think about that, we won't have time for past regrets and worries about the future... Details >>
Status:Available Alcoholics Anonymous - Fourth Edition
Published: 2001
Basic A.A. "Big Book" text.. Details >>
Status:Available Alcoholics Anonymous- Third Edition
Published: 1976
AA's "Big Book". The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism... Details >>
Status:Available Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age
Published: 1957
A brief history of A.A... Details >>
Status:Available An Introductory Guide to Narcotics Anonymous
Published: 1992
NA's basic texts.. Details >>
Status:Available As Bill Sees It: The A.A. Way of Life
Published: 1967
Selected writings of A.A.'s co-founder... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 07/15/2009) As We Understood
Published: 1985
Al-Anon members share their understanding of prayer, letting go, fellowship, meditation, a Higher Power, and spiritual awakening... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 07/15/2009) Hope For Today
Published: 2002
A collection or daily thoughts & meditations from Alanon members... Details >>
Status:Available How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics
Published: 1995
Al-Anon's "basic book" reflects the shared wisdom of Al-Anon members today. The most comprehensive book on Al-Anon is excellent for personal and meeting study... Details >>
Status:Available Living Today in Alateen
Published: 2001
This book is a collection of personal sharings from Alateen members around the world. There is a different page for each day of the year. A source of hope & strength for teens living with alcoholism in the home. .. Details >>
Status:Available Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps
Published: 1992
The author paves the way for a broader understanding of recovery that involves both personal & social awareness. She examines co-dependency in the context of internalized oppression & explores boundaries & sexual exploitation in groups. Also confronts the.. Details >>
Status:Available Narcotics Anonymous (3rd Edition)
Published: 1982
Many books have been written about the nature of addiction. This book primarily concerns itself with the nature of recovery. If you are an addict and have found this book, please give yourself a break and read it!.. Details >>
Status:Available Narcotics Anonymous (Third Edition)
Published: 1982
Many books have been written about the nature of addiction. This book primarily concerns itself with the nature of recovery. If you are an addict and have found this book, please give yourself a break and read it!.. Details >>
Status:Available Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous
Published: 1979
A fascinating account of the development of the AA fellowship, this book contains anecdotes, excerpts from diaries, correspondence & memoirs of AA's early figures... Details >>
Status:Available One Day at a Time in Al-Anon
Published: 1968
Al-Anon family group daily reader. For anyone w/ a loved one addicted to alcohol... Details >>
Status:Available One Day At a Time in Al-Anon
Published: 1989
Al-Anon family group daily reader. For anyone w/ a loved one addicted to alcohol... Details >>
Status:Available Pass It On
Published: 1984
The story of Bill Wilson and how the AA message reached the world... Details >>
Status:Available Paths to Recovery
Published: 1997
Al-Anon's steps, tradition and concepts for family & friends of alcoholics... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1985
Explores the secrets, fears, hopes & issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. The authors detail the challenges of control & inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1985
Explores the secrets, fears, hopes & issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. The authors detail the challenges of control & inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding... Details >>
Status:Available Just For Today
Published: 1991
A daily, inspirational reader for people addicted to drugs seeking recovery... Details >>
Status:Available An Introductory Guide to Narcotics Anonymous
Published: 1991
A short book designed to answer questions regarding NA... Details >>
Status:Available It Works: How and Why
Published: 1993
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous... Details >>
Status:Available Narcotics Anonymous (Fifth Edition)
Published: 1982
The basic text, including steps and traditions, of NA... Details >>
Status:Available The Narcotics Anonymous Step Working Guides
Published: 1998
These guides are meant to be used by NA members at any stage of recovery, and is intentionally written to be relevant to newcomers and to help more experienced members develop a deeper understanding of the Twelve Steps. .. Details >>
Status:Available Staying Clean: Living Without Drugs
Published: 1990
A checklist for living the Narcotics Anonymous way of life, with 33 helpful tips for maintaining a steady course on the difficult road to recovery. Here is practical, hands-on advice for everyday life and habits - habits that can make or break any effort.. Details >>
Status:Available The Twelve Steps for Adult Children
Published: 1987
Based on the 12 Steps of AA, this book offers a specific format to guide the addict in moving from isolation & denial to accepting & dealing w/ feelings of anger, guilt, fear & despair. By releasing the past & opening up to the present, confidence & estee.. Details >>
Status:Available Pass It On
Published: 1984
The story of Bill Wilson and how the AA message reached the world... Details >>
Status:Available The Heart of Addiction
Published: 2002
Dr. Dodes sets out to change the way we treat addictions. He describes how all addiction have at their heart certain emotional/psychological factors that, once understood, can be successfully managed. Challenges the idea that addiction is primarily physic.. Details >>
Status:Available The Home Group: Heartbeat of AA
Published: 1993
A collection of articles reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous' newsletter, the AA Grapevine... Details >>
Status:Available Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions
Published: 1998
The newest edition of a landmark book on counseling the addict. Covers the historical origins of A.A. and the 12 Steps, a complete explanation of the etiology, treatment, and aftercare of persons w/ addictions, and newly written material on counseling tho.. Details >>
Status:Available I'd Like to Call for Help, But I Don't Know the Number
Published: 1991
The author explains how the process of spiritual re-awakening is essential in using the 12-Steps for recovery, and how any reader, recovering or not, can benefit from the process of opening up to the deeper aspects of life... Details >>
Status:Available Tough Love: How Parents Can Deal With Drug Abuse
Published: 1996
A book for all parents, but especially for those whose children use drugs, Tough Love gathers real-life accounts of young drug users and their parents' role in securing help, using the Palmer Drug Abuse Program... Details >>
Status:Available Inside a Support Group: Help for Teenage Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1997
Explains for teens what Alateen is and who is involved in the program, the many negative effects alcoholism has on society, and what an Alateen meeting looks like. Intended to help teens decide if Alateen is right for them... Details >>
Status:Available 12 Steps to Self-Parenting
Published: 1988
Based on the 12 steps of AA, this guide will allow you to free your Inner Child, your center of love & feelings, and to release your Higher Parent, your center of intuitive knowledge... Details >>
Status:Available Understanding the Twelve Steps
Published: 1989
A practical guide that takes the mystery out of the 12 Steps with explanations of each, as well as how it translates to real life. Reveals the experiences, strength, and hope of other recovering people... Details >>
Status:Available Big Book Unplugged: A Young Person's Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous
Published: 2003
Written for teens & young adults as a simple, concise & humerous guide to AA's Big Book. The basic messages are about getting hones w/ yourself, accepting help from others & finding some kind of spiritual support... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober
Published: 1975
"Staying sober becomes the basis of recovery from alcoholism and let it be emphasized: Living sober turns out to be not at all grim, boring & uncomfortable, as we had feared." A book of methods AA members have used for not drinking... Details >>
Status:Available Viviendo Sobrio
Published: 1981
**Living Sober** Algunos de los metodos que los miembros de AA han utilizado para no beber... Details >>
Status:Available Alcoholicos Anonimos
Published: 1990
**Alcoholics Anonymous- 3rd Edition** The Big Book of AA, with 44 personal stories included... Details >>
Status:Available Narcoticos Anonimos
Published: 1991
**Narcotics Anonymous** An introduction to the NA program & how it works, with recovery stories to help readers know they are not alone... Details >>
Status:Available Narcoticos Anonimos
Published: 1991
**Narcotics Anonymous** An introduction to the NA program & how it works, with recovery stories to help readers know they are not alone... Details >>
Status:Available Vienticuatro Horas al Dia
Published: 1976
**Twenty-Four Hours a Day** First published in 1954, this book paved the way for all other meditation volumes. It helps readers develop a spiritual program, relate the 12 Steps to their everyday lives, and accomplish aftercare goals. A thought, meditatio.. Details >>
Status:Available Un Dia a la Vez En Al-Anon
Published: 2003
**One Day at a Time in Al-Anon** Daily meditations, reminders and prayers help families encourage loved ones fighting alcoholism... Details >>
Status:Available With Gentleness and Love: A 12 Step Guide For Adult Children in Recovery
Published: 1989
Offers re-parenting exercises & tools for recovery, such as the Victim Roles Wheel, the Freedom Wheel, Guided Visualization Processes and Creative Action Routines. Presented with gentleness, love and humor... Details >>
Status:Available Courage To Be Me: Living With Alcoholism
Published: 1996
A treasure-trove of recovery stories specially written by and for Alateens. Every teen living with an alcoholic--recovering or not--should read this book. .. Details >>
Status:Available Accepting Ourselves & Others: A Journey into Recovery from Addictive & Compulsive Behaviors for Gays
Published: 1996
Addresses how internalized homophobia affects addiction & treatment, what models of recovery exist beyond AA, how one chooses a therapist, and what special issues gay, lesbian & bisexual people face... Details >>
Status:Available The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Methamphetamine Dependence
Published: 2002
A Reference manual for self-directed patient research.For meth users and healthcare workers, this book guides the reader to public, academic, government & peer-reviewed research. Useful websites and a chapter on peer groups are included... Details >>
Status:Available Green Spirituality: Reflections on Belonging to a World Beyond Myself
Published: 1992
Author of books on ACoA issues asks "What are we becoming spiritual for?" Includes meditations on expanding beyond the self to embrace the world & understand our place within it. Inspiration to reach out to the world in thought & action that is balanced &.. Details >>
Status:Available Each Day a New Beginning: Hazelden Meditation Series
Published: 1983
The first daily meditation guide created by & for women involved in 12 step recovery programs. Offers thoughts, reflections, hope, strength & guidance every day of the year... Details >>
Status:Available The Promise of a New Day: Hazelden Meditation Series
Published: 1982
A daily meditation book for men & women involved in 12 step recovery programs to affirm strength & offer hope and peace... Details >>
Status:Available Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families: Hazelden Meditation Series
Published: 1985
Daily meditations on family for people involved in 12 step support programs to offer strength & hope... Details >>
Status:Available From Addict to Disciple: The First Twelve Steps
Published: 2005
Local reverend David Hain presents a roadmap to the addict, showing how the light of God's Word offers hope and promise to anyone seeking a path to whole-hearted discipleship... Details >>
Status:Available Young, Sober & Free
Published: 2003
The author presents real-life stories of young adults who have survived their early years despite becoming addicted to alcohol or other drugs. These firsthand accounts are accompanied by discussions of the 12 Step principles... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Attracting Medical Specialist to the Addiction Field; Your Clients' Support Groups; Prevention Program Guidance; Trends in Counseling; Understanding Gambling's Addictive Process; Using Dreams in Treatment; The Kubler-Ross Grief Model... Details >>
Status:Available Breaking the Chains
Recovery problems that afflict the segment of society that doesn't seem to relate to middle class recovery values... Details >>
Status:Available Step 1 for Adolescents
Published: 2004
Teens in recovery candidly share their triumphs & setbacks in working Step One, struggling with powerlessness, recognizing unmanageability, and overcoming secret-keeping. Video guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Step 2 for Adolescents
Published: 2004
Teens in recovery candidly whare their triumphs and setbacks in working Step 2: defining a higher power, overcoming negative perceptions about religion, and developing a spiritual connection. Discussion guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Step 3 for Adolescents
Published: 2004
Teens in recovery candidly share their triumphs & setbacks in working Step 3, maintaining conscious contact with a higher power, finding a sponsor, and learning to have fun sober. Discussion guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Alateen Tells it Like it Is
Published: 1987
This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself
Published: 1986
Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program; members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... Details >>
Status:Available Alateen Tells It Like It Is
This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself
Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program- members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... Details >>
Status:Available Silent Suffering: Substance Abuse in the Deaf Community
Hosted by Alan Barnwiolek, a deaf actor who works with Alcoholics Anonymous on translations of their publications, this video explores the cultural, treatment and recovery issues for the deaf and hearing-impaired addicted population... Details >>
Status:Available Twelve Steps: The Video
Offers a sensitive introduction to the 12-step programs with a general understanding of the program and its principles... Details >>
Status:Available Inside Alcoholics Anonymous
Published: 1999
From the A&E television series Investigative Reports... Details >>
Status:Available My Name is Bill W.
Published: 1989
James Woods & James Garner play Bill Wilson & Bob Smith, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. A true, powerful story of how two lives intersected at a crucial time... Details >>
Status:Available Drunks
Published: 1995
Richard Lewis, Dianne Wiest & Faye Dunaway star. The first film to take an in-depth look at the inner workings of a 12 step program, Drunks is a journey into the lives of recovering alcoholics who gather in a Times Square church basement for AA meetings... Details >>
Status:Available Just for Today: Narcotics Anonymous
Published: 1994
This video explains what NA is by recreating NA meetings and following an addict, Mary, from her introduction to NA through her recovery process. In the meetings, many other stories about addicts, their addiction, and their recovery with NA are shared... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction (DVD)
Published: 2007
*DVD* HBO's critically acclaimed documentary is aimed at helping Americans understand that addiction is a brain disease. Four 30-minute discs and 5 hours of extra materials feature stories from addicts and loved ones as well as authorities on addiction.. Details >>