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The last time David Magee saw his son alive, William told him to write their family’s story in the hopes of helping others. Days later, David found William dead from an accidental drug overdose. Now, in a memoir suggestive of Augusten Burroughs meets Glennon Doyle, award-winning columnist and author David Magee answers his son's wish with a compelling, heartbreaking, and impossible to pause book that speaks to every individual and family.

Precisely plotting the slippery slope of a heroin addict's existence, The Hummingbird Kiss paints a bleak picture but still manages to offer a ray of hope. The '70s are young, and 18-year-old Trish is a newlywed. When a Florida judge sentences her junkie husband to ten years for stealing stereos, she immediately seeks out a fix, and before she knows it she's hooked. There follows a long sojourn as she and her friends work small scams to score, head to California in search of better highs, move back to Florida, shoot up and nod off every chance they get — until death gets some of them.

After two decades of mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, J. T. Wahlberg had had enough, and he was all set to end his 20-year addiction to alcohol. There was just one problem: He “forgot” to research the potential risks of detoxing on his own without any medical supervision. Armed with cans of Campbell’s Chunky soup, plenty of water, and a few tips he had picked up from the movie Trainspotting, he hunkered down in his apartment for what he imagined would be a couple of days of pain followed by a life of sunny sobriety.

Gain a better understanding of the oppressive drug world, which has transformed and adversely affected so many lives. This book gives an in-depth look at why individuals turn to drugs, what happens chemically, signs and symptoms, intervention strategies, treatments, recovery and so much more. Additionally, the real stories submitted by ex-addicts (and loved ones of ex-addicts) demonstrates the power of substance abuse. These stories will take you through their journey from life before drugs to its after-effects.

America Anonymous is the unforgettable story of eight men and women from around the country - including a grandmother, a college student, a bodybuilder, and a housewife - who are struggling with addictions. For nearly three years, acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives as they battled drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, and compulsive gambling and sexuality.

My personal and professional experience helping addicts for the last 20 years are combined in Death to Addiction. Putting death to my addictions by applying the strategies in this audiobook changed my life and will do the same for you.

You can stop your cravings for alcohol and start making healthier decisions and stop drinking today with this hypnosis program from world-renowned hypnotherapist Rachael Meddows.

In the Family Meeting Desert Roundup 1970, Father Fred introduces Terry M, the Alateen Speaker. She tells her story. Chuck C talks about alcoholism and how his drinking and recovery have affected his family. Elsa Chamberlain talks about being a person deeply affected by alcoholism in a loved one, how Alanon has helped her, her alanon work with others, and how alanon and alateen can help the families of alcoholics.

With this audiobook, you will learn how to prepare to quit smoking, and ultimately break the habit once and for all utilizing mindfulness, meditation, and hypnosis. You will learn how to breathe your way through the withdrawals and face your addiction-free lifestyle with confidence and strength. This audiobook has helped hundreds of people break their addiction to smoking in a healthy and holistic way, never to return to smoking again! This audiobook will help you break the habit once and for all!

Written for millennials and Gen Z, this approachable guide reframes addiction and provides tools from psychotherapy to help the listener break harmful behaviour cycles. You don't need to be an addict to engage in destructive addictive behaviours. Do you use social media to distract yourself from difficult emotions, or find yourself seeking a boost through shopping, relationships or drinking? Do you feel that you have habits that are holding you back, but you cant seem to break them?

The Twelve-Step program of Debtors Anonymous helps those around the world who suffer from the illness of compulsive debting. It offers still-suffering debtors a simple program of recovery through which they can arrest this serious malady.

For twenty years, Joshua Deen built his life around alcohol. As a Los Angeles musician and self-described professional drinker, the party never really stopped until the consequences caught up. Strained relationships. Empty mornings. A life quietly revolving around the next drink. Last Call, Stupid is a painfully funny, uncomfortably honest memoir about alcohol addiction, denial, and what it actually takes to quit drinking — without rehab, without a 12-step program, and without calling yourself powerless.

Meg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed years of sexual addiction. She has an intimate knowledge of all you may have felt-and she's lived to tell about it. With honesty and hopefulness, Meg uses her own story, along with other examples and Scripture, to help women cope and find their way out of the darkness of their husbands' sexual compulsions. She wants you to know that God's first concern is for your relationship with Him - not your circumstances.  

Sipping Fear shows you how the catecholamines responsible for desire and fear always act together. Desire is by its very nature a form of fear (like FOMO: fear of missing out). This is what narrows focus and provides temporary stress relief.

Addiction takes over one's life in a slow manner. You'll find yourself getting hooked on something before you know it. The worst part is, addiction can generate negative side effects such as depression, diseases and low self-esteem.

Mary Pearl T Understanding and Applying the 12 Steps of Alanon features funny stories about becoming honest about harms done resisting, making amends, and then enjoying relief when you do. She talks about her gradual spiritual awakening as she grows in Alanon.

From leading recovery mentors Lane Kennedy and Tamar Medford, this book is full of proven ideas that will help you embrace a life without alcohol (or without so much of it). Chock full of personal stories, unfiltered honesty, and tried-and-true advice, Sobriety For Dummies offers practical strategies and useful tools for those seeking to transform the role of alcohol in their lives.

If you’ve listened to Addiction and Alcoholism Recovery Skills for Women, this companion workbook is the next powerful step in your healing. It’s like sitting down with the same trusted, no-nonsense girlfriend who helped you through the hardest days — but now she’s here to walk with you as you build a stronger, more joyful life. This workbook follows the same chapter structure as the original book — but with deeper reflections, and all-new, in-depth exercises, journal prompts, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) tools designed specifically for women in recovery.

Are you tired of feeling stuck in a cycle of cannabis use? Do you struggle with motivation, focus, or withdrawal symptoms every time you try to quit? Whether you've been smoking for years or just realized that weed is holding you back, this book is your roadmap to a clear mind and a more fulfilling life.

Are you ready to stop smoking without fear, stress, or struggle? In this powerful and compassionate program, counsellor and hypnotherapist Kathryn Clark guides you through a proven, science-based approach to retrain your brain, calm your cravings, and reclaim your freedom. Grounded in neuroscience and twenty years of therapeutic experience, Stop Smoking Step by Step helps you understand what’s really happening in your brain when the urge strikes—and how to unlearn the old pattern that keeps you hooked.