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A Drinking Life: A Memoir

By: Pete Hamill

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 1995

Seller ID: 5671

ISBN: 0316341029

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

20 years after his last drink Pete Hamill looks back on his early life. As a child during the depression and World War II he learnt that drinking was to be an essential part of being a man, it was only later he discovered its ability to destroy lives.
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Alcoholism and Pathological Gambling: Similarities and Differences

By: Arthur Herscovitch

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Learning Pubns: January 1999

Seller ID: 25710

ISBN: 1556911467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Alcoholism and Pathological Gambling: Similarities and Differences

By: Arthur Herscovitch

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Learning Pubns: January 1999

Seller ID: 43203

ISBN: 1556911467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Alcoholism And The Family

By: Saturo Saitoh, Peter Steinglass, Marc A. Schuckit

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Routledge: August 1992

Seller ID: 43138

ISBN: 0876306261

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A collection of papers that appeared at the fourth International Symposium of the Psychiatric Research Institute of Tokyo, which represent the work of clinicians and scientists in the complex area of alcoholism and the family.
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Drugs, Alcohol, and Your Children: What Every Parent Needs to Know

By: Geraldine Youcha

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): September 1999

Seller ID: 5164

ISBN: 0140280472

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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

"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, and tries to shore up his faltering marriage, he is confronted by the greatest test he has ever faced, and finds hi...
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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

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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, enlighten...
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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 spiritua...
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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

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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