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by Stanton Peele (Author) "Values play a critical role in addiction-and your values are likely to be the key to your escaping addiction ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Publications (15 July 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400048737
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400048731
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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The author of Love and Addiction introduces his seven-step program to help addicts of all kinds--from substance abuse to gambling to nicotine addiction--enhance their self-esteem, develop self-empowerment, put meaning in their lives, and overcome addictive behavior--offering such tools as values, motivation, rewards, resources, support, maturity, a
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14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 10 Nov 2004
This is simply the best book on addictions. I have read many book's on alcohol addiction (which was my problem), and this is the best. A very human approach to addiction that is very educational and tells the realitys of addiction and emphisises the fact that there is no cure to addiction, only hard work on behalf of the addicted individual (and this CAN be a long process, depending on the individual in question).
The afterword is a little boring and political (talking about drugs being imported to the USA from columbia), but just skip it, I did.

The best quote from the book is:

"In place of this growing intrusiveness into the very core of our beings, for illusory gains, we need to recognive that we will never find a single magical cure for addiction, as though it were located somewhere in the brain, like a tumor. Instead, addiction will be reduced only in a better world compromised of better-equipped people leading better lives"

Good luck and work hard at improving your lives, its the ONLY escape from addictions.

All the best :)

Mark

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3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 1 Jan 2008
7 Tools to Beat Addiction is an excellent resource for those addicted to alcohol or other substances and want to enrich their lives while reducing or eliminating their alcohol intake.

7 Tools is much like The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, also by Peele. 7 Tools is a bit of a condensed version of the aforementioned Truth About Addiction. Nevertheless, if you read both books, you will gain information from both books. If you are feeling as if you are suffering and might not be able to focus on the more scholarly Truth About Addiction, then definitely pick up this book. You will be educated about the addiction process, about the pseudo-science that has pushed the disease model, and you will be given the tools you need to moderate your drinking or quit your drinking altogether.

Stanton Peele's research isn't based on feeling, like the AA model of alcoholism-as-a-disease. It's based on numerous studies by many different scientists done over the past several decades that have drawn the same conclusion OVER and OVER again. And, the conclusion is that it's NOT a disease-- despite the AMA and despite AA and despite every single organization that says it is. The proof lies in this point-- that there hasn't been even ONE successful study that has proven otherwise-- even when the study was created to PROVE that alcohol dependence was a disease.

AA ADMITS in it's own data that only 5% of AA members remain alcohol abstinent. The data that has been proven over and over again is that this number is LESS than those that quit drinking without AA. Additionally, a recent Harvard University Study stated that 80% of those that have quit drinking did it on their own. This goes against the disease model and AA approach. Many can moderate their drinking successfully or quit successfully altogether. This goes against the disease model and AA approach, too. Stanton Peele's book shows us the studies and data that support that once addicted DOES NOT MEAN ALWAYS ADDICTED. Unless, of course, one has bought into the AA philosophy and has now accepted that they are permanently sick and out of control. This is the crux of this argument. Studies have shown that those that have bought into this philosophy wind up having a lower self-image than those that have not, and they wind up believing they are permanently sick and completely unable to manage their lives-- thereby buying into the belief that they are "out of control". The focus is never about getting better in AA (I know they say otherwise)-- the focus is on STAYING 'sick', STAYING in AA, and STAYING permanently in a "RECOVERY" state. The focus, truthfully, is in keeping old folkwisdom alive even though every bit of evidence shows us that there are proven better ways. To add insult to injury, anyone who doubts this model is accused of being in denial, and everyone who remains alcohol abstinent without AA is accused of being a dry drunk (not "sober" according to AAspeak. Hello? Isn't this supposed to be a quit-drinking program?

The problem AAers have is that this proof (that is shown so coherently here) completely pulls their chairs out from underneath them. I understand this, too. If everything I believed was taken away from me and proven to be false, it would certainly undermine my own confidence in my ability to make decisions. And, so far, although the twelve-step "treatment" (although why we continue to call it treatment when it hasn't successfully treated anything) philosophy has continued to permeate our culture, there is absolutely no evidence at all to suggest that it is beneficial. On the contrary. The evidence proves it hasn't been and that there are better ways that have been proven to work (for instance, Community Resource and Family Training, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy, as well as other approaches) scientifically.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is how you beat addiction, 7 Jan 2010
By Mark House (Essex, UK) - See all my reviews
Stanton Peele puts together a very strong case for how to beat your addictions. His basic premise is to understand that it is within your power to do something, and that it is your responsibility to do something about that. As we live in a world where others, or unknown causes are to blame, this is a refreshing and hugely workable approach.

Right from the go, the seven tools arm you with all that you need to beat your addictions. Along the way, the book also offers tips and helpful support on building your values and self-esteem, and most of all, to be the person that you deserve and want to be.

So, if you are looking to beat addiction, or know someone you want to help beat addiction, this book is an invaluable tool to make that happen
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