Throughout this decade, the number of kids using and abusing drugs and alcohol continues to rise -- in the suburbs as well as the cities, and in an increasingly younger population. Based on the latest research, statistics, and trends about all kinds of drugs -- including tobacco -- this handbook will help today's parents handle the frightening and confusing realities of drug use among young people.

This guide, for parents of children from preadolescence to early adulthood, shows readers who suspect their kids -- or their friends -- are using drugs what to look for, and how to remain alert wh...
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Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life

By: Neil Steinberg

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Plume: May 2009

Seller ID: 5679

ISBN: 0452295432

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."--Chicago Magazine

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking. As Steinberg claws his way through recovery, grieves the loss of the drink, a...
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Families Under the Influence: Changing Alcoholic Patterns

By: Michael Elkin

Price: $18.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: May 1990

Seller ID: 5667

ISBN: 0393306704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Drunkenness is powerful behavior. In time, families and friends will react to it in predictable ways. Working from this premise, family therapist Michael Elkin shows how alcoholic families develop, how they train their members, and how a therapist can interrupt their lemminglike march to disaster. The book is written for people who work with alcoholics and their families. Its informal style and commonsense approach, however, make it enlightening reading for anyone interested in America's number-one health problem.
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From Binge to Blackout: A Mother and Son Struggle with Teen Drinking

By: Chris Volkmann, Toren Volkmann

Price: $6.98

Publisher: NAL Trade: August 2006

Seller ID: 5682

ISBN: 0451219090

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren's growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized he'd become a full-blown alcoholic. And he was not alone.

Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of young adults whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain. This book, written from the viewpoints of both mother and son, is a riveting, enlightening...
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Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and Its American Stereotype

By: Richard Stivers

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group: March 2000

Seller ID: 19154

ISBN: 0826412181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Persecuted in their homeland by the English, the Irish were dogged in their adopted country, by a reputation for drunkenness and alcoholism that was fabricated ... by the English.

When I first opened this remarkable book and discovered its patently erroneous thesis, I said to myself, "Stivers will never convince me that he's right". When I finished it, I set the book down gently and said, He's convinced me: he's right " ... Hair of the Dog is a pioneer work in research on alcohol abuse, stereotyping, and Ireland. It demolishes myths in all three areas, no small feat for a sociological monogr...
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How To Live With a Problem Drinker and Survive, 2nd Ed

By: Gary G Forrest

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Learning Publications: August 2001

Seller ID: 23058

ISBN: 1556912099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

No More Letting Go : The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism And Drug Addiction

By: DEBRA JAY

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group: April 2006

Seller ID: 5695

ISBN: 0553383604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Detachment" has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict's loved ones has been to let the addict "hit bottom" before intervening. Now intervention specialist Debra Jay challenges this belief and offers a bold new approach to treating addiction that provides a practical and spiritual lifeline to families struggling with alcohol or drug abuse.

In No More Letting Go, Jay argues that the traditional advice of "letting go" too often destroys both the addict and the family physically, emotionally, and s...
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Our Secret Feelings: Activities for Children of Alcoholics in Support Groups (Human services library)

By: Deborah Sharp Molchan

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Learning Pubns: December 1988

Seller ID: 37293

ISBN: 1556910207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Our Secret Feelings: Activities for Children of Alcoholics in Support Groups (Human services library)

By: Deborah Sharp Molchan

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Learning Pubns: December 1988

Seller ID: 37633

ISBN: 1556910207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Recovery from Alcoholism

By: Jerome D. Levin

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Jason Aronson: January 1995

Seller ID: 52803

ISBN: 1568211864

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Alcohol Report

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Free Assn Books: November 2000

Seller ID: 5677

ISBN: 1853435244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Alcohol Report sets out to provide, in non-technical terms, a considered, authoritative and informative review of some of the key topics likely to interest those with a serious interest in the facts about alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. In addition, it is hoped that The Alcohol Report will be helpful to a wide range of people whose work is likely to bring them into contact with drinking and problem drinking. The Alcohol Report should also be of interest to those with personal experience of alcohol problems, the drinkers themselves, their friends and family members.
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Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery

By: Stephanie Brown

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Wiley: December 1996

Seller ID: 44138

ISBN: B001PIJ3GS

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind: The Nature of Craving and How to Control It

By: Arnold M. Ludwig

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: June 1989

Seller ID: 5647

ISBN: 0195059182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Despite the immense obstacles they face, many alcoholics do manage to recover. In this groundbreaking book, Arnold M. Ludwig--a doctor with over twenty-five years of experience working with alcoholics--goes inside the minds of alcoholics in order to explain the behaviors and thought processes they use to get and stay sober. Whether alcoholics achieve recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, a church, counseling, hospitalization, or entirely of their own initiative, the basic methods remain essentially the same. This book offers the first detailed examination of these successful methods. Ludwig h...
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