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Evaluate medications and treatment programs
Break free from addictive substances or behaviors and get a fresh start
Think you have an addiction? This compassionate guide helps you identify the problem and work towards a healthy, realistic approach to recovery, explaining the latest clinical and self–help treatments for both adults and teens. This book also offers tips on reducing cravings, handling your relationships, and staying well for the long run.
Discover how to
∗ Identify the reasons for addiction
∗ Choose the best treatment plan
∗ Handle slips and relapses
∗ Detect addictions in a loved one
∗ Find help and support
Break free from addictive substances or behaviors and get a fresh start
Think you have an addiction? This compassionate guide helps you identify the problem and work towards a healthy, realistic approach to recovery, explaining the latest clinical and self–help treatments for both adults and teens. This book also offers tips on reducing cravings, handling your relationships, and staying well for the long run.
Discover how to
∗ Identify the reasons for addiction
∗ Choose the best treatment plan
∗ Handle slips and relapses
∗ Detect addictions in a loved one
∗ Find help and support
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Evaluate medications and treatment programs
Break free from addictive substances or behaviors and get a fresh start
Think you have an addiction? This compassionate guide helps you identify the problem and work towards a healthy, realistic approach to recovery, explaining the latest clinical and self–help treatments for both adults and teens. This book also offers tips on reducing cravings, handling your relationships, and staying well for the long run.
Discover how to
- Identify the reasons for addiction
- Choose the best treatment plan
- Handle slips and relapses
- Detect addictions in a loved one
- Find help and support
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The good news. This is a basic self-help workbook with many positive ideas of how to manage an addiction to the point of recovery. Chapters cover identifying addictions and triggers, overcoming barriers, where to go for advice and how to help loved ones. The style is conversational and clear, and the book serves as a one-stop shop for addicts and friends alike. The authors talk to you in plain terms, but they also review some research and give an overview of not just what to do but where to find the various treatments and organisations out there to help you, from hospital admission and medication to acupuncture and counselling.
So what's not to like? For this reviewer the authors should have come clean and admitted that this is at heart an endorsement of the twelve step (Minnesota Model, Alcoholics Anonymous) approach to alcohol treatment. It talks of gambling and sex addiction, but not enough to really support people. It is essentially a problem drinkers manual promoting the twelve-step approach of 'submit to a higher power' and 'alcohlism is a disease', and alternative approaches are damned with feint praise.
For example, alternative self-help therapy groups such as Jack Trimpey's Rational Recovery, which attracts some of the 90% plus who don't find help with AA, is based we are told on one man's 'personal decision to quit', and the 'optimistic' idea that 'human beings naturally recover from addiction'. Not a full or fair analysis of the growing and successful self- help movement of which Trimpey's is just one example. In reviewing conventional treatment models the book gives short shrift to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and overlooks the research evidence which places it ahead of other models for applicability and success rate. Here it is described confusingly only as a 'perspective' and after a couple of paragraphs is dismissed as 'not straying far from [the] everyday', and that its difference from twelve-step approaches is simply 'a matter of emphasis'.
So while this book is a very useful overview with many practical ideas and points from which to explore what might work for you, it is not, in this reviewer's opinion, always a reliable or clear guide to those approaches itself.
So what's not to like? For this reviewer the authors should have come clean and admitted that this is at heart an endorsement of the twelve step (Minnesota Model, Alcoholics Anonymous) approach to alcohol treatment. It talks of gambling and sex addiction, but not enough to really support people. It is essentially a problem drinkers manual promoting the twelve-step approach of 'submit to a higher power' and 'alcohlism is a disease', and alternative approaches are damned with feint praise.
For example, alternative self-help therapy groups such as Jack Trimpey's Rational Recovery, which attracts some of the 90% plus who don't find help with AA, is based we are told on one man's 'personal decision to quit', and the 'optimistic' idea that 'human beings naturally recover from addiction'. Not a full or fair analysis of the growing and successful self- help movement of which Trimpey's is just one example. In reviewing conventional treatment models the book gives short shrift to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and overlooks the research evidence which places it ahead of other models for applicability and success rate. Here it is described confusingly only as a 'perspective' and after a couple of paragraphs is dismissed as 'not straying far from [the] everyday', and that its difference from twelve-step approaches is simply 'a matter of emphasis'.
So while this book is a very useful overview with many practical ideas and points from which to explore what might work for you, it is not, in this reviewer's opinion, always a reliable or clear guide to those approaches itself.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book hoping to get some useful advice in supporting my loved one with drug and alcohol problems. I have never read such a depressing book. It made me feel totally despondent and that my partner was a hopeless case. If you really want some good advice may I suggest that you find something that can inspire you and help you to see that problems can be overcome.I would recommend a book with a more positive attitude. My partner is reading Allen Carrs book, How to stop drinking,and already feels encouraged and hopeful. Good luck!
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Forget the title-This is a really smart book!
4 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
The title of this series always turns me off--so formulaic and usually simplistic. But this book is different! The format is simple and the material is presented in the clear, crisp and easily readable style typical of this series but this book is also truly wise, practical and compassionate in its approach. There is up-to-date information on medications, the physiology of addiction, treatments and groups that can offer support to the addicted person and plenty of practical advice for those on the sidelines (family, friends, spouses) who want to help but don't understand the problem. The book makes practical suggestions for treatments/groups that can help, how to deal with relapse cravings and moving forward in life without relying on an ultimately self-destructive habit. I have 30 years of experience as a therapist and this is one of the few selp-help books that I respect. I plan to give it to my clients and to recommend it to colleagues. Buy it---you won't be disappointed!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A great "user-friendly" book!
20 Jan 2005
Format:Paperback
I've been waiting years for this book! As a physician I see many patients with addiction problems, yet I've never had a truly "user-friendly" book to recommend to the average reader. Now I do! This book is easy to read, it's concise, and it covers virtually all the important addiction topics in its well organized 20 chapters. The topics are covered in a sensitive, heart-felt manner while delivering critical information. It is obvious that Shaw, Ritvo, and Irvine know their topic and have empathy for clients and friends plagued by addictions. If you want to feel respected by the authors of the book you read, this is a good book. Even if you're struggling with an addiction, yourself, I can't imagine feeling 'talked down'. As they say, addiction can happen to anyone - no matter how strong or strong-minded.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
No Axe To Grind
7 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
Clear readable practical education and guidance on dealing with your or your loved one's addiction. Covers all the most important treatment approaches without moralizing and helps you choose what is most helpful or appropriate to your situation. I have already recommended to two patients who both found it tremendously helpful.
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