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The Recovery Book: Answers to All Your Questions About Addiction and Alcoholism and Finding Health and Happiness in Sobriety
by Al J. Mooney

Explains what addicts and their families will face during each stage of recovery, offers information on support groups, and answers common questions.
Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change - A Guide for Families
by Jeffrey Foote

Leading innovators in progressive addiction treatment outline a science-based program for overcoming addiction-related problems, demonstrating how to effectively use positive reinforcement and motivational and behavioral strategies.
What Addicts Know: 10 Lessons From Recovery to Benefit Everyone
by Christopher Kennedy Lawford

In What Addicts Know, Lawford recounts the inspiring stories and wisdom of recovering addicts, combining them with cutting-edge scientific findings to give hands-on, practical techniques for recognizing unhealthy impulses and managing them.
Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction
by Christopher Kennedy Lawford

The best-selling author of Symptoms of Withdrawal traces his personal battles with addiction and 25 years of sobriety, profiling effective self-care treatments for seven primary addictions to counsel readers on how to determine dependency levels, identify compatible treatment options and transition to a productive life.
Rein in Your Brain: From Impulsivity to Thoughtful Living in Recovery
by Cynthia Moreno Tuohy

Rein in Your Brain, by addiction expert Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, offers ten tools for breaking the cycle of impulsivity.
Kick Your Addiction: How to Quit Anything
by Frederick Woolverton

A specialist in treating addictions and a former patient outline a method of controlling any kind of addiction.
Recover! Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with the PERFECT Program
by Stanton Peele

Outlines a holistic new program for addicts and their families based on evidence-based treatments, CBT and meditation, rejecting conventional beliefs and programs to explain how readers can permanently overcome self-destructive compulsions.
The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery: A Practical Guide to Regaining Control Over Your Life
by Lawrence Peltz

Introduces the practice of mindfulness while explaining how it can offer beneficial approaches to addiction recovery, drawing on the author's expertise as an addiction psychiatrist to outline mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques while sharing illustrative patient stories.
How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents
by Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Offers advice on raising children drug-free, including when and how to talk to kids about drugs, how to respond when kids ask about their parents' experiences with alcohol and other drugs, and the different challenges facing girls and boys.
Clearing the Haze: Helping Families Face Teen Addiction
by Christian Thurstone

Offering firsthand accounts from former addicts, parents and professionals, this work highlights the problems of teen addiction and provides guidance for those affected.
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book
by Alcoholics Anonymous

Reprint of the first edition of the book, originally published in 1939.
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
by Sarah Hepola

In an unflinchingly honest memoir that is both hilarious and heartbreaking, the author shares her journey to sobriety, a new adventure she never wanted, after her drinking—which she once believed gave her confidence, intimacy and creativity—led to blackouts that drained her spirit and destroyed her life.
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