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Status:Available When Someone You Love Has a Drinking Problem (Audio CD)
Published: 2002
You don't have to wait for your loved one to get sober to get help for yourself. Info & advice on getting support to understand & cope. Addresses denial, silence, co-dependency, helping children cope, and the road to recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Science-Based Substance Abuse Prevention: A Guide
Published: 2001
Highlights the risk & protective factors that help determine an individual's vulnerability to substance abuse, & examines CSAP's qualitative & quantitative strategies for evaluating existing substance abuse prevention programs & developing best practices... Details >>
Status:Available I'll Quit Tomorrow - A Practical Guide to Alcoholism Treatment (Revised)
Published: 1990
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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 Million Little Pieces
Published: 2003
Autobiography of James Frey, who entered rehab at age 23 having almost destroyed his body & mind beyond repair by using drugs & alcohol. Frey had to fight to find his own way to deal w/ the consequences of the life he had lived, & to determine what, if an.. 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 Addiction: Pastoral Responses
Published: 2002
An insightful introductory guide for pastors, this book highlights practical methods for making contributions to the recovery of persons in local congregations, including identifying those needing help, encouraging them to accept referral, & facilitating.. 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 Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception
Published: 1997
The author reveals how self-deception can undermine self esteem & threaten an addict's recovery. This revision of a classic includes updated info & research on depression & affective disorders, relapse, & the origins of addictive thought... 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 An Adult Child's Guide To What's "Normal"
Published: 1990
You have begun to deal with the pain and trauma of being raised in a dysfunctional family and now you are ready to lead a healthy life. Do you know what healthy people do? A practical guide to living a healthy life... Details >>
Status:Available After the Tears: Reclaiming the Personal Losses of Childhood
Published: 1986
Guidance for helping adult children of alcoholics work through grief, loss, and depression. For any and all adult children who want to know if there's life after alcoholism in their family... 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 Alcoholism: The Genetic Inheritance (Hardcover)
Published: 1988
Addresses the disease concept of alcoholism, known here as Jellinek's disease, and provides us with a simple understanding of how alcoholism affects our lives biochemically, neurologically, politically, and socially... Details >>
Status:Available An Introductory Guide to Narcotics Anonymous
Published: 1992
NA's basic texts.. Details >>
Status:Available A Guide to Family Intervention
Published: 1987
Presents the process of confronting the addict with the problem of their addiction. Addresses the family's fears, overcoming denial, preparation, and attitude. Besides advising the family, there is a section for the mediating therapist who will handle t.. 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:Available Breaking the Cycle of Addiction: A Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
Published: 1987
This guide teaches parents, who were themselves raised by addicted parents, how to raise their kids to be healthy, and how to parent the child within themselves. To break the cycle of addiction, parents need to learn what is to be "child-conscious"... Details >>
Status:Available Courage To Be Me (Alateen)
Published: 1996
A collection of sharings and artwork from Alateen members all over the world... Details >>
Status:Available Courage to Change in Al-Anon One Day at a Time II
Published: 1992
Daily reader... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 07/15/2009) Daily Reflections
Published: 1990
Daily reader of reflections by AA members for AA members... Details >>
Status:Available Denial is Not a River in Egypt
Published: 2001
This book shows you how to transform: denial into truth, stress into relaxation, depression into expression, sadness into joy, pain into pleasure, anger into kindness, addiction into health, compulsion into peace, frightful into insightful, and loneliness.. Details >>
Status:Available Dr Bob and the Good Oldtimers
Published: 1980
A biography, with recollections of early AA in the Midwest... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Addiction: Learn About It Before Your Kids Do!
Published: 1987
Dr Andre shows us addiction, with a specialized focus on cocaine, and how it takes hold of its victims. We learn about addiction and what it does to us physically, about intervention, the hospitalization process, the treatment center and the follow-up in.. Details >>
Status:Available From Survival to Recovery: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home
Published: 1994
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Status:Available Guide to Recovery: A Book For Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1985
Written in a clear, concise, easy to read question and answer format. Will bring answers, ideas, and new information to the countless numbers of adult children who are so eager for clarity. Clarity of what happened to them and understanding of how to se.. 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 to Use Intervention in Your Professional Practice
Published: 1987
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Status:Available I Never Saw the Sun Rise
Published: 1977
A 15 year old caught up in addiction shares her very private journal of getting sick and getting well again through treatment for chemical dependency witih poems that sum up her fierce introspection and drawings that take over when words aren't enough... Details >>
Status:Available I'll Quit Tomorrow - A Practical Guide to Alcoholism Treatment
Published: 1990
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Status:Available Kill the Craving
Published: 2001
A personal guide to Exposure Response Therapy, the new technique that has helped countless addicted people get and stay clean. Learn how to implement ERP, handle triggers in foolproof ways, kill even your strongest cravings, and end the powerful cycle of.. 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 Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
Published: 1989
This book represents many of the stories of childhood pain and the paths to recovery that have been found by many Perfect Daughters... Details >>
Status:Available Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction
Published: 1996
A self-recovery program that shows you exactly how to take control of your addictive behavior now - and how to recover totally through planned abstinence. Refutes the alcoholism disease model and brings new hope to those who have been discouraged by tradi.. 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 Rehab: A Comprehensive Guide to Recommended Drug-Alcohol Treatment Centers in the United States
Published: 1988
This guide offers an objective & comprehensive analysis of what goes on in rehabilitation facilities across the U.S. Entries describe the kind of treatment available, the physical facilities, each center's philosophy, admissions policies, cost, insurance.. Details >>
Status:Available Smoking Cigarettes: The Unfiltered Truth - 2nd Edition
Published: 2003
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Status:Available Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction
Published: 1985
The author explains that REAL recovery begins with what he calls Stage II - the rebuilding of the life that was saved in Stage I. This inspiring,guide offers new info on how to see & change learned self-defeating behavior and make relationships work - whi.. Details >>
Status:Available Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction
Published: 1985
The author explains that REAL recovery begins with what he calls Stage II - the rebuilding of the life that was saved in Stage I. This inspiring,guide offers new info on how to see & change learned self-defeating behavior and make relationships work - whi.. 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 07/15/2009) The Addictive Personality
Published: 1988
Going beyond a former definition that limited addiction pri-marily to the realm of alcohol and other drugs, the author uncovers the common denominator of all addiction as he shows the emotional isolation, shame, and despair in which addicts live... 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 Drunks
Published: 1974
A self-contained sequel to "Leo and Theodore" that follows the lapse into alcoholism and subsequent recovery of Siamese twins Leo and Teddy. The twins experience NYC's fast lane before their agonizing recovery. "Comically surreal and painfully real"... Details >>
Status:Available The Dual Disorders Recovery Book
Published: 1993
A 12 Step program for those with addiction and an emotional or psychiatric illness. Contains both real-life stories from recovering individuals, and contributions from authorities on the subject. Includes info on Dual Recovery Anonymous w/ resources... 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 The Awakened Heart: Living Beyond Addiction
Published: 1991
May sees our addictive and compulsive behaviors as "minor anesthesia," protecting us from the risk of loving and sharing our desires. Efficiency, upon which our culture is based, cannot fulfill our need for communion, leaving us vulnerable to addiction. O.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction & Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
Published: 1988
May describes the "processes of attatchment" that lead to addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, work, & intimacy. A compassionate & wise guide to freedom based on contemplative spirituality... Details >>
Status:Available Chemical Dependency and the African American
Published: 2002
Bell explains how issues of race, culture, and class play a vital role in treating addiction as a physical, mental, and emotional disorder. Addresses racial self-hate & internalizing of stereotypes, racial loyalty & authenticity, cultural forms of play, a.. 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 Relapse Prevention Workbook for African Americans
Published: 1999
Designed to assist African Americans seeking recovery from addiction by leading the reader through a series of clinical exercises designed to improve insight and reflection about internal racism, culturally related low self-esteem, victimization, and enti.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction and Spirituality: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Published: 1999
A series of interfaith essays that consider theological and biblical issues without slighting traditional clinical, therapeutic, or scientific perspectives. Aims to provide insights to both religious and secular counselors, as well as theoreticians of the.. 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 Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover: A Guide for Parents & Other Concerned Adults
Published: 1991
A step-by-step guide. Addresses the 4 stages of recovery, problems faced by both teens & parents in each stage & how to get past them. Describes teenage recovery as a slow but steady process of growth & change unique to the developing adolescent... Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: What's a Parent to Believe?
Published: 2003
Addiction specialist Timmen Cermak helps parents sort through the latest facts, the known risks, & the divergent perspectives on pot. His basic message? For teens, marijuana use equals risk. Your basic message? That's up to you. Addresses intervention & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Don't Leave It to Chance: A Guide for Families of Problem Gamblers
Published: 2000
Includes sections on what questions to ask, what to do, what not to do, advice on financial problems, hands-on exercises, and a wonderful explanation of how cognitive- behavioral treatments work. Equally appropriate for treatment professionals... Details >>
Status:Available Losing Your Shirt: Recovery for Compulsive Gamblers & Their Families
Published: 1992
A classic of recovery literature, this second edition offers true heartbreaking stories, updated material, and cutting-edge research on compulsive gambling. It remains the most complete, comprehensive resource available, offering compassion to addicts & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Beyond the Influence: Understanding & Defeating Alcoholism
Published: 2000
Based on the latest scientific research, this book explains the neurological nature of alcoholism & reveals why some drink addictively & some do not. New insights into the steps to take for an intervention, how to find the right treatment program, which p.. 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 The Recovery Book
Published: 1992
An indispensible road map to every step of the process of becoming clean & sober. Covers withdrawal & detox, raising drug-resistant kids, temptation & how to thwart it, staging an intervention, sexuality, preventing and surviving relapse, quitting smoking.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction, Progression & Recovery: Understanding the Stages of Change
Published: 2004
Describes the 5 naturally-occurring stages of change on an Addiction Recovery Learning Curve that many people with the most serious addictions will have to go through on the long road to lasting recovery. Addresses assessing, educating, motivating & empow.. 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 Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families
Published: 1988
For people who grew up in families w/ perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems expressing feelings, & all the other traits that can produce dysfunction. Pulls together theory & clinical practice... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery From Co-Dependency
Published: 1989
Useful for therapists & ACOAs, addresses developmental issues that have led to addictive or compulsive behaviors in adults. Co-dependents can learn what is naturally learned by children in healthy families, and the Inner Child can be healed... Details >>
Status:Available Bradshaw On: The Family
Published: 1988
Focuses on the dynamics of the family, & how the rules & attitudes learned while growing up become encoded within each family member. Bradshaw guides us out of dysfunction to wholeness & teaches that bad betginnings can be remedied... Details >>
Status:Available I Am an Adult Who Grew Up in an Alcoholic Family
Published: 1991
Both moving & practical, this book provides hope to ACoA's & those who love them. Covers issues such as forgiving your parents, being a parent yourself, stress & depression, self esteem & self-management, and the need for a spiritual view of life... 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 Aging & Addiction: Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence
Published: 2002
Primarily intended to help families & friends of older adults cease enabling, understand addiction, and encourage their loved one to seek treatment. Emphasis on prescription medications, alcohol & older women, involving the family physician and how grief.. Details >>
Status:Available Speaking Out...For Addiction Recovery
Published: 2003
"An Advocacy Handbook for Recovered People, Their Families & Friends" Aims to give voice to those touched by addiction in order to continue to erase the stigma associated w/ addiction and to guide policy toward a stronger committment to treatment resource.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 12/24/2009) Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading & Threatening
Published: 2004
Based on the CRAFT model, this book provides the guidance & tools you need to understand how you & your addicted loved ones interact, & how to change those patterns, improving your life while making sobriety a more rewarding option for them... 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 El Pensamiento Adictivo: Comprender el Autoengano
Published: 2000
**Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception** A look at self-deceptive thinking that feeds low self-esteem and relapse, plus new information on depression & affective disorders. .. 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 Taming Your Turbulent Past: A Self-Help Guide for Adult Children
Published: 1987
Offers strategies for self-change that can help adult children of alcoholics free themselves from the turbulence of their childhoods and cope better w/ today's challenges. Addresses the anger, fear & tyranny of always needing to please... Details >>
Status:Available Facing Codependence
Published: 1989
Traces the origins of co-dependence back to childhood emotional, spiritual, intellectual & sexual abuses. Creates a framework of identifying codepen- dent behaviors & outline an effective therapy for recovery. The outcome, ideally, is more mature & satisf.. Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction: How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning
Published: 2000
Explains how families & couples can lose their cohesive identity & meaning in the wake of addiction. Histories, personal stories & the latest research help readers chart their own way out of the hell of addiction & back to lasting, loving family relations.. Details >>
Status:Available Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
Published: 2003
Personal stories that show that family members don't cause their loved one's addiction, not can they control or cure it. They can find support, set boundaries, detatch w/ love, & eventually discover how to enjoy life even if the addiction persists. A book.. Details >>
Status:Available Delirium Tremens
Published: 2000
A celebrated Mexican novelist interviewed people suffering from alcohol-related visions during withdrawal. Tells a powerful tale of personal, social & emotional trauma & of the courage that leads some tortured souls back to the surface of sober reality... 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 Stop the Chaos: How to Get Control of YOur Life by Beating Alcohol & Drugs
Published: 1999
Begins w/ an awareness-raising exploration of addiction & its symptoms; a step-by-step account that shows readers how to assess their situation. Explanations & advice are interspersed w/ exercises, quizzes & illustrations that give readers needed structur.. Details >>
Status:Available Overcoming Perfectionism: The Key to a Balanced Recovery
Published: 1990
Perfectionism is a compulsive pattern of behavior & thought aimed at medicating shame & other painful emotions. Discusses how perfectionism may have benefits but is ultimately an obstacle to quality living as it prevents intimacy and lowers self-esteem... Details >>
Status:Available Choices & Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
Published: 1987
Written for parents, teachers, doctors, clergy, etc, this book tells you precisely how you can help a teen abusing substances. Describes a step-by-step process called an intervention which can be used to stop a teen's harmful involvement with chemicals... 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 Self-Discovery in Recovery
Published: 1984
Rabbi, addiction counselor & psychiatrist, Twerski exposes the roots of addiction & emotional pitfalls encountered during recovery. Using his clients' case histories, he shows how recovery offers a unique opportunity for social, psychological & spiritual.. 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 02/18/2010) Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management: Practical Exercises
Published: 2006
Learning how to manage your denial is not easy, but necessary in order to develop a really effective pain management plan. This workbook helps you look at problems that led you into this process, examine self-defeating behaviors, and evaluate your prescri.. 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 Repeat After Me
Published: 1985
A workbook for adult children from alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional families. Explains how unhealthy families operate, results for the children as they progress thru adolescence and to adulthood, & offers a series of exercises to begin the healing pro.. 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 Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction
Published: 2006
A comprehensive guide to everything meth users & their families need to address as they confront this addiction: Meth's effects; how to stop using & stay clean; dealing w/ depression, ADD or other mental health issues; meth and sex; meth and HIV/AIDS; and.. Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
Published: 2000
Addresses the stages of addiction w/in the family, anger, how kids & couples are affected, and how hopelessness can give rise to the process of recovery. Gives special attention to how families progress through early, middle and late recovery... Details >>
Status:Available From Binge to Blackout: A Mother & Son Struggle with Teen Drinking
Published: 2006
Written by a mother & son, this book chronicles Toren's college drinking as it crosses the line into alcoholism. Includes checklists for choosing colleges, helping teens in trouble, planning spring break trips, and surviving rehab and early recovery, as w.. Details >>
Status:Available Double Duty: Dual Dynamics Within the Chemically Dependent Home
Published: 1990
Validates the unique life experiences of adult children of alcoholics during their recovery process including: food addiction, physical disability, sexual abuse, minority status, sexuality issues, being an only child, and having 2 addicted parents... Details >>
Status:Available In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior
Published: 2007
With the latest statistics, recent technologies & devices, and new thinking on healthy internet usage & avoiding relapse, this book offers professional advice for achieving lasting change and healing... Details >>
Status:Available A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender..
Published: 2001
Full Title: "A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals" Covers homophobia, cultural, legal & health issues, interpersonal violence, counselor competence, gender identity, administrative.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: September 2003
Published: 2003
Articles include: An Alderian-Based Method of Treating Addictions; Assisting Gay & Lesbian Clients; The Professional in Recovery: Be Sensitive to Professional Culture; Helping Clients Overcome 'Family Culture of Pain'; Multiple Tools to Treat Pathological.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: November 2003
Published: 2003
Articles include: Harm Reduction: Where Should Professionals Stand?; Beware of Your Clients' Medicine Cabinet; Making the Most of Training Opportunities; Addressing The Aging Face of Addiction; Gambling; Workplace Issues... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: Better Aftercare for the Dually Diagnosed; Do School & Recovery Mix?; Addiction & Child Welfare Professionals; Who Should Speak for the Cause?; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy; The Public Health Case for Needle Exchange; Opiate Addiction;.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: November 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: The Future & Science of Addiction Services; 'Weighty' Matters During Recovery; Healing Emotional Wounds: Substance Abuse & Feelings; Clergy & Sexual Boundaries: Addiction & Sexual Orientation; Managing Pain with Coexisting Addictive Diso.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: January 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Clients in Gangs; Compensation Trends in Behavioral Healthcare; Group Psychotherapy; Gambling; 'Treatment Works!': Is it Time for a New Slogan?'; New Hope for Treating Alcoholism: Will Professionals Embrace the Latest Medication Options?.. 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 Addiction Professional: May 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Complexities of Culture; Eating Disorders; Gambling Screening Tools; Defining Success with Treatment of Adolescents; Six Skills for Loved Ones; Impulsivity, Risk & Recovery; Using Motivational Interviewing to Overcome Ambivalence... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: July 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: New Medication for Opiate Addiction; Harm Reduction; Workforce Development Strategies; Body Image in Adolescent Girls; Teens with Addicted Parents; Treating a Gambling Disorder; Do I Want to Be a SAP?... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: September 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Dealing With Client Reluctance; Women's Treatment that Addresses Trauma; Hope for Youths with Learning Problems; Motivational Interviewing & Stages of Change; Recovery & Tobacco Use... Details >>
Status:Available Mark Lundholm: Humor in Treatment (DVD)
Published: 2007
If laughter is the best medicine, Mark Lundholm provides healing for the soul. In his seriously funny DVD, Lundholm lets you in on his personal escapades and foibles as he journeyed from the pain and destruction of addiction to the hope of new life in rec.. Details >>
Status:Available Step 2 for Adults (DVD)
Published: 2004
Adults with anywhere from 4 months to 14 years of sobriety share stories about the setbacks and triumphs they faced in working the second Step. .. Details >>
Status:Available Step 1 for Adults (DVD)
Published: 2004
Adults with anywhere from 4 months to 14 years of sobriety share stories about the setbacks and triumphs they faced in working the first Step... Details >>
Status:Available Step 3 for Adults (DVD)
Published: 2004
Adults with anywhere from 4 months to 14 years of sobriety share stories about the setbacks and triumphs they faced in working the third Step. .. Details >>
Status:Available The Voice of Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful (DVD)
Published: 1999
Saul Selby, with a creative use of a hand puppet named Slick, helps clients explore addiction and relapse through three key principles: addiction is more powerful than they are; its tactics can be very subtle and patient; and application of the Steps is t.. Details >>
Status:Available Conquering Cocaine: Cessation- Early Stages of Recovery
Published: 1986
The early stage of withdrawal from cocaine is described by medical experts & recovering addicts, including detox and counseling. Emphasizes that recovery is a life-long process, and that being part of an aftercare or self-help group will help ensure sobri.. Details >>
Status:Available Medical Aspects of Co-Dependency
Published: 1986
Covers the physical & emotional effects that a chemically dependent person has on family, friends, and co-workers. Addresses family roles, sexuality, medical diseases, and what happens to the family system when even one member seeks help. Great informatio.. Details >>
Status:Available Intervention Pros and Cons: Part 1
Published: 1989
A training seminar taped at the Freedom Center in Pittsburgh PA on Vernon Johnson's intervention techniques. Emphasizes that interventions are surprises & forced crises, not punishments, and that they always work because they heal families. Good informat.. Details >>
Status:Available Back to Reality
Published: 1988
Hugh Downs presents information on addition, enabling, and intervention. Vignettes depict workplace and family situation. Helps family & friends see that they aren't alone in their feelings and enabling behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available Spirituality of Recovery
Videotaped conference w/ Father William Rutledge.. Details >>
Status:Available Coming Down: The Aftermath of Doing Drugs
Published: 2003
We hear from teens who are trying to come back from serious alcohol and drug problems and why they got involved, why their habit increased, why they crashed, and how they are recovering. Theme song titled: Carnival in Hell; this is the only profanity, tho.. Details >>
Status:Available Recovery and Human Physiology: Alcohol
Published: 1992
This program esplains the common problems, including mood changes, stress and physical complaints, that recovering alcoholics often face... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery and Human Physiology: Drugs
Published: 1992
Offering up-to-date medical information, explanatory visuals and testimonials from former addicts, this video documents the common after-effects, both mental and physical, experienced by those in recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery and Human Physiology: Drugs
Published: 1991
Prepares people in early recovery for the physical and mental discomforts ahead, emphasizing that the process takes time... 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 Relapse
How to work the tenth step and how to stay accountable for behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available Family Issues for the Chemically Dependent
Family issues clients commonly face after treatment such as: gaining trust, communication, setting boundaries, coping, forgiving, etc... Details >>
Status:Available It Won't Happen To Me
Portrays a teenage problem drinker who is forced to confront his problem in an intervention group. .. Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Resisting Social Pressures to Use Alcohol
Published: 1994
Shows how recovering persons can resist pressure to drink, and helps them to make the connection between what they think, how they feel and how they act... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Coping with Cravings and Thoughts of Using
Published: 1994
Helps recovering persons to make the connection between what they think, how they feel and how they act... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Managing Anger in Recovery
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interviews with recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address anger in recovery. Helps recovering persons to make the connection between what they think, how they feel and how they act... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Managing Feelings of Boredom and Emptiness
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interviews w/ recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address feelings of boredom and emptiness experienced by those in recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Coping with Family and Interpersonal Conflict
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interviews w/ recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address the navigation of family and interpersonal relationships during recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Coping with Relapse Warning Signs
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interview with recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address coping with cravings to use drugs and alcohol... Details >>
Status:Available Prescription Narcotics: The Addictive Painkillers
Provides information on the use and abuse of prescription narcotic drugs... Details >>
Status:Available Heroin
Published: 1997
This powerful video explores the many devastating effects of heroin. We watch family & friends share their devastation at the death of a loved one from overdose, a toxicologist explains heroin's effects, and recovering addicts offer their experiences with.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Portrait of Addiction
Published: 1998
Program that features the real experts; recovering addicts, who reveal their lives distorted by drugs and alcohol and transformed by recovery. Their personal stories give us a look into the common struggles that addicts share during addiction and througho.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Changing Lives
Published: 1998
The 2nd video in the series addresses treatment and recovery, stressing the need for individualization of treatment plans. Visits two programs that serve the needs of different populations... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Politics of Addiction
Published: 1998
The 5th video in the series tells the story of how our society meets the challenges of translating what scientists, doctors, counselors, and recovering addicts have learned into public policy. Looks at Arizona's Proposition 200, which emphasizes treatment.. 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 Cross-Addiction: The Back Door to Relapse
Published: 1999
Cross-addiction is the single greatest relapse factor. Firsthand testimony from addicts and professionals dispel the myth that there is any such thing as a "safe" substance for people in recovery. Ends with a message of hope for the recovering individual... Details >>
Status:Available Cocaine and Crack: Back From the Abyss
Published: 1998
Testimony from recovering addicts is interwoven with that of chemical dependency counselors and physicians. Part I explains the complex effects of cocaine, and why relapse rates are so high. Part 2 gives viewers the practical tools to get thru cravings, i.. Details >>
Status:Available Cocaine and Crack: Back From the Abyss
Published: 1998
Testimony from recovering addicts is interwoven with that of chemical dependency counselors and physicians. Part I explains the complex effects of cocaine, and why relapse rates are so high. Part 2 gives viewers the practical tools to get thru cravings, i.. Details >>
Status:Available Methamphetamine: Deciding to Live
Published: 1998
Through documentary-style interviews w/ recovering addicts & professionals, the devastating consequences of meth are revealed. Part 1 begins w/ an explanation of the effects of meth on the brain. Part 2 offers hope for those in recovery, revealing the spi.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Street Smarts
Published: 1996
Part 1 of 5: Learning to Avoid Relapse. An introduction to key urban relapse prevention strategies, using inspiring interviews w/ credible role models. Focuses on complete abstinence, accepting disappointments, coping w/ chronic stress, resisting easy mon.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Back on the Block
Published: 1996
Part 1 of 5: Credible urban role models focus on the first weeks home after rehab or prison, including finding a sober place to live, creating & using a support system, keeping busy, and preparing to handle triggers to use. Ethnically diverse narrators... Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Recovering Relationships
Published: 1996
Part 1 of 5 Credible urban role models discuss ways to recognize & avoid relapse traps. Addressed are ways to cope w/ an unsupportive family, avoiding rescuing others, sober sex, dealing w/ guilt and the stress of parenting in recovery. Both men's & wom.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Catchin' Feelings
Published: 1996
Part 4 Credible urban role models teach new ways of dealing with feelings without picking up. Emphasis on "emotional danger zones" including anger, shame, guilt, self-pity, illness like HIV/AIDS, and feelings engendered by racism. Narrated by recovering.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Making It Happen
Published: 1996
Part 5 Credible urban narrators illustrate the importance of building a satisfying life to long-term recovery, including getting & keeping work, dealing w/ financial stress, going back to school, giving back to the community, having fun sober, & reclaimin.. 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 New Beginnings: Women, Alcohol, and Recovery
Published: 1977
Follows recovery of three women: one recovering from alcohol and drug abuse; another is the author of "I'm Black and I'm Sober" and the third is a career woman who found a new identity through her recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Dependency: The Early Warning Signs
Published: 1984
Helps break through the wall of denial. Illustrates 10 early warning signs which indicate an individual has crossed the line from using a drug of choice to dependence on a drug. Emphasizes that drug abuse is reversible and offers practical advice for gett.. Details >>
Status:Available If You Change Your Mind
Presents unique perspective on drug use and abuse; how is abuse different from addiction? Can an addict ever be rehabilitated? Just exactly how do drugs and alcohol affect body and mind? Touches on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and nicotine. Ending hopeful and p.. Details >>
Status:Available Gate House for Men/Women
Description and testimonies of what The GateHouse is, how it works and what it can do... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Potrait of Addiction
Published: 1998
Program that features the real experts; recovering addicts, who reveal their lives distorted by drugs and alcohol and transformed by recovery. Their personal stories give us a look into the common struggles that addicts share during addiction and througho.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Politics of Addiction
Published: 1998
This video gives examples of the challenges of translating what has been learned in the past decade about the disease of addiction into a rational, effective public health policy... Details >>
Status:Available My Name is Kate
Published: 1994
Donna Mills stars as a woman who comes to terms with her alcoholism. Co-stars Daniel Trevanti. (1994 ABC production.).. Details >>
Status:Available Shattered Spirits
Movie taped from television. Shows family interaction in the disease process. Also touches on intervention and treatment for the entire family... 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 Close to Home: Moyers on Addiction (Complete Collection)
Published: 1998
Bill Moyers' 5-part series on addiction. 1. Portrait of Addiction 2. The Hijacked Brain 3. Changing Lives (about successful treatment programs) 4. The Next Generation (about how children are affected by addiction) 5. The Politics of Addiction Excel.. Details >>
Status:Available Walking the Same Land
Published: 2001
Targets young Natives returning to traditional cultural ways to strengthen their recovery from substance abuse. Young aboriginal men from Australia share their culture and their healing with young Mohawk men from upstate New York. Offers a holistic approa.. Details >>
Status:Available Meth: What's Cooking in Your Neighborhood?
Published: 2002
Provides useful information on what methamphetamine is, what it does, and why it seems appealing and is dangerous. Covers how meth is made and how communities can prevent its use. Study guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Faces of Addiction
Published: 1997
Contains adult language. Presents firsthand accounts of how addiction devastates lives through interviews with recovering addicts, who detail their former drug use habits and the interventions that changed their lives. The first in the HBO series of the s.. Details >>
Status:Available Psychology of Addiction
Published: 1998
Delbert Boone explains how drugs move through the body to the brain, where psychological effects include denial, rationalization, minimization, and projection of the addict's problems. Addiction is cunning, baffling, power- ful, chronic, progressive and p.. Details >>
Status:Available Making the Right Choices
Published: 2003
Michael Johnson addresses prison inmates concerning the struggles many offenders face when returning to their old neighborhoods. He discusses the immediate gratification inherent in addiction & criminal activity vs. the humility and accountability needed.. Details >>
Status:Available Women in Prison: Your Way to Stay Out
Published: 2000
Features women inmates discussing what led to their incarceration and identifying behaviors and reactions that supported their destructive lifestyle. The women find their own empowerment plan to support success after release. Includes Facilitator's Manual.. Details >>
Status:Available Women in Transition: The On-Going Challenge
Published: 1998
Four women who have been released from prison and are living successful, drug-free lives tell about their experiences. Viewers will learn practical ways to work toward a successful transition, the value of seeking help, and what it means to accept respons.. Details >>
Status:Available Four Phases of Community Re-Entry
Published: 2001
Addresses re-entry into the community for recovering addicts in prison or treatment, and why it's vital to be prepared. A treatment specialist emphasizes the structure that people in recovery must create for themselves, after having their lives structured.. Details >>
Status:Available The Rules of Recovery
Published: 2003
Host Delbert Boone emphasizes that getting dry is an event and sobriety is a process. He outlines the "rules of recovery" that assist the addict on focusing on his/her physical and safety needs. Sobriety requires of addicts the ability to comply, & to tak.. Details >>
Status:Available Sobriety: Straight Up
Published: 2000
This encouraging video features Delbert Boone addressing recovering addicts in prison. While using, most addicts develop skills such as creativity, consistency, dilligence, and determination, which could be used in a positive way to maintain sobriety... Details >>
Status:Available Inside Alcoholics Anonymous
Published: 1999
From the A&E television series Investigative Reports... Details >>
Status:Available Rehab: Tough Love in Harlem
Published: 1996
From the 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 Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
Published: 2002
This documentary follows the lives of a teenager & his younger brother as they cope with their mother's battle w/ addiction. She continues to relapse despite rehab attempts, and soon her legal parental rights are threatened. Through it all, the brothers s.. 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 Therapy Games
Published: 2003
Host Michael Johnson addresses the various game addicts play in therapy. He explores denial, attitude, anger, blame & identifying your true self. Provides strageties for using therapy to focus on personal issues rather than just trying to say what's expec.. Details >>
Status:Available Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Published: 2003
Delbert Boone discusses Maslow's theory that human beings are motivated by unsatisfied needs, and that once the basics are met, one can pursue higher needs. Boone shows how addiction destroys one's ability to meet needs for love & belonging, then the basi.. 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 Marijuana: Weeding Out the Hype!
Published: 2000
Teleconference for adults deals with marijuana facts, current trends, changes in potency, documented effects, and treatment. Includes interviews w/ teens in recovery and tips for parents. Emphasis is on behavior modification, with examples of risk & prote.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Understanding Your Rage
Published: 2002
Part 1 of 3 addresses the connection between anger & addiction, anger "blackouts" and "highs", how anger can lead to relapse, its roots, causes from childhood, how triggers "make sense", and deciding to change. Real people tell their stories. Useful for n.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Tools for Managing Anger
Published: 2002
Part 2 of 3 presents 8 realistic, proven strategies for controlling anger. Real people in recovery explain how they successfully use tools such as knowing triggers, recognizing danger zone signs, removing oneself from the situation, using self-talk & othe.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Anger Reduction and Long-Term Change
Published: 2002
Part 3 of 3 has recovering addicts talk about how to be a less angry person by reconstructing faulty beliefs, healing the wounds of childhood, assertive conflict resolution, forgiving oneself, and stress reduction. Ends w/ glimpses of changed lives. For n.. Details >>
Status:Available The Science of Methamphetamine: An Informed Recovery
Published: 2005
Separates the facts from fiction about meth treatment. Former users speak honestly about their meth experiences. Great for clients and clinicians both who have been told that recovery from meth is almost impossible; offers insight, experience and hope... Details >>
Status:Available Understanding Major Anxiety Disorders and Addiction
Published: 2003
Addresses the effects drugs & alcohol have on anxiety disorders, relapse triggers for both MH and D&A, specifics of anxiety disorders, the importance of family & other support in recovery, how exposure therapy works, and how the physician can be an ally a.. Details >>
Status:Available Understanding Personality Problems and Addiction
Published: 2003
Defines personality problems & addresses how addiction affects them. Covers relapse triggers for both MH and D&A issues, family support and 12-step groups, and how our past shapes who we are today... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/17/2010) Prescription for Trouble (DVD)
Published: 2003
Adolescents are abusing prescription & over-the-counter drugs in record numbers. Here, teens in recovery come clean about which meds they used, when & why they started, and how their addictions severely damaged their lives. Other experts discuss the impac.. Details >>
Status:Available Gambling: Against the Odds
Published: 2003
Five compulsive gamblers in recovery share their stories, shedding light on the psychology & pathology of this powerful habit. Treatment options are discussed by leading experts... 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 >>
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 >>