Synopses & Reviews
CONGRATULATIONS!
If you're one of the people this book is intended to help, then you've just taken an important step that could save the life of someone you care about. This book could end that person's misery and help that person find his or her way to a truly wonderful, whole new life.
And it could end worry and heartbreak for you.
You've seen the person you care about slowly getting worse and worse. When he or she has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs, or both, some pretty awful things have started to happen, like car accidents and bad fights and falls and rages and disappearances and job losses.
You're baffled and hurt and angry. You hope that the person--lover, close family member, key employee, or wonderful friend--will snap out of it. But it doesn't happen. there's a good chance that he or she has become one of the more than twenty million persons who suffer from what is now scientifically recognized as the disease of alcoholism/addiction.
But Addiction-Free helps you find a solution. Now you can learn about all the possible ways in which you can help.
Review
"For anyone who lives and worries about an alcoholic or drug addict." -- Carol Cox Smith, author of
Recovery at Work“Easily readable directions as to how family members, friends, as well as the afflicted persons themselves, can find tremendously helpful assistance and guidance” -- Robert A. Liebelt, Ph.D., M.D., Medical Director, Sister Ignatia Hall and the Robert H. Smith, M.D. (Dr. Bob) Interim Care Center
"I have spent twenty-five years working with drug addicts, alcoholigcs, and ex-convicts, and I have a doctorate degree in clinical psychology. No amount of experience or education prepared me for my closest relative going back into addiction. This book is a step-by-step guide on how to detach with love and how to find sanity while you're trying to help your loved one." -- Teri Lynch DeLane, Ph.D., director of Choices Program for Incarcerated Men and Women
Review
“A primer treating all the major strategies for helping alcoholics and addicts toward sobriety. This book guides its readers to little-known, yet very powerful sources of help.” -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"For anyone who lives and worries about an alcoholic or drug addict." -- Carol Cox Smith, author of Recovery at Work
“Easily readable directions as to how family members, friends, as well as the afflicted persons themselves, can find tremendously helpful assistance and guidance” -- Robert A. Liebelt, author of Straight Talk About Alcoholism
"I have spent twenty-five years working with drug addicts, alcoholigcs, and ex-convicts, and I have a doctorate degree in clinical psychology. No amount of experience or education prepared me for my closest relative going back into addiction. This book is a step-by-step guide on how to detach with love and how to find sanity while you're trying to help your loved one." -- Teri Lynch DeLane, Ph.D., director of Choices Program for Incarcerated Men and Women
Synopsis
Addiction-Free is a complete up-to-date guide of who, what, where, and when you or someone you love can contact to get help for problems with alcohol or other drugs. Here are the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses of the experts---millions have found a way out, and so can you.
This invaluable guide includes six initial options for getting into recovery:
-- The AA treatment program
--Interventions, detox and rehab
--Work related programs
--Al-Anon
--Law-enforcement programs
--Therapeutic communities
Addiction-Free: How to Help an Alcoholic or Addict Get Started on Recovery is a much-needed guide for everyone whose life is touched by addiction.
Synopsis
Praise for
Addiction-Free"I have spent twenty-five years working with drug addicts, alcoholigcs, and ex-convicts, and I have a doctorate degree in clinical psychology. No amount of experience or education prepared me for my closest relative going back into addiction. This book is a step-by-step guide on how to detach with love and how to find sanity while you're trying to help your loved one." -- Teri Lynch DeLane, Ph.D., director of Choices Program for Incarcerated Men and Women
Addiction-Free is a complete, up-to-date, one-stop guide to recovery, including information on:
--Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
--Professional help (intervention, detox, rehabilitation)
--Workplace programs
--Law-enforcement programs
--Therapeutic communities
Easy to read and user-friendly, Addiction-Free provides answers to questions about what to expect in overcoming addictions in terms of time, money, and treatment success.
Synopsis
CONGRATULATIONS!
If you're one of the people this book is intended to help, then you've just taken an important step that could save the life of someone you care about. This book could end that person's misery and help that person find his or her way to a truly wonderful, whole new life.
And it could end worry and heartbreak for you.
You've seen the person you care about slowly getting worse and worse. When he or she has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs, or both, some pretty awful things have started to happen, like car accidents and bad fights and falls and rages and disappearances and job losses.
You're baffled and hurt and angry. You hope that the person--lover, close family member, key employee, or wonderful friend--will snap out of it. But it doesn't happen. there's a good chance that he or she has become one of the more than twenty million persons who suffer from what is now scientifically recognized as the disease of alcoholism/addiction.
But Addiction-Free helps you find a solution. Now you can learn about all the possible ways in which you can help.
Synopsis
"This book guides its readers to little-known, yet very powerful sources of help."
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Addiction-Free is a complete up-to-date guide of who, what, where, and when you or someone you love can contact to get help for problems with alcohol or other drugs. Here are the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses of the experts--millions have found a way out, and so can you.
Synopsis
Addiction-Free is a complete up-to-date guide of who, what, where, and when you or someone you love can contact to get help for problems with alcohol or other drugs. Here are the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses of the experts---millions have found a way out, and so can you.
Synopsis
Addiction-Free is a complete up-to-date guide of who, what, where, and when you or someone you love can contact to get help for problems with alcohol or other drugs. Here are the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses of the experts---millions have found a way out, and so can you.
This invaluable guide includes six initial options for getting into recovery:
-- The AA treatment program
--Interventions, detox and rehab
--Work related programs
--Al-Anon
--Law-enforcement programs
--Therapeutic communities
Addiction-Free: How to Help an Alcoholic or Addict Get Started on Recovery is a much-needed guide for everyone whose life is touched by addiction.
Synopsis
A thorough guide about how to get help for a friend or loved one who is having problems with alcohol or other drugs. Provides places, names, numbers--who to call, what questions to ask, and what to expect. This invaluable guide includes six initial options for getting into recovery:
-- The AA treatment program
--Interventions, detox and rehab
--Work related programs
--Al-Anon
--Law-enforcement programs
--Therapeutic communities
Addiction-Free: How to Help an Alcoholic or Addict Get Started on Recovery is a much-needed guide for everyone whose life is touched by addiction.
Synopsis
Praise for
Addiction-Free"I have spent twenty-five years working with drug addicts, alcoholigcs, and ex-convicts, and I have a doctorate degree in clinical psychology. No amount of experience or education prepared me for my closest relative going back into addiction. This book is a step-by-step guide on how to detach with love and how to find sanity while you're trying to help your loved one." -- Teri Lynch DeLane, Ph.D., director of Choices Program for Incarcerated Men and Women
Addiction-Free is a complete, up-to-date, one-stop guide to recovery, including information on:
--Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
--Professional help (intervention, detox, rehabilitation)
--Workplace programs
--Law-enforcement programs
--Therapeutic communities
Easy to read and user-friendly, Addiction-Free provides answers to questions about what to expect in overcoming addictions in terms of time, money, and treatment success.
About the Author
Gene Hawes is the author of many books including
Rx for Recovery: The Medical and Health Guide for Alcoholics, Addicts and Their Families (with Jeffrey Weisberg, M.D.); he lives in a small town just north of New York City.
Anderson Hawes is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC), a licensed social worker, and a certified chemical dependency counselor in private practice near Akron Ohio.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Problem: Enormous; Heart-Breaking--But You Can Have Great Rewards Ahead
Prologue: Sure Signs of the Disease of Alcoholism/Addiction
One: The AA Way: Carrying the Message (After Having Invented It)
Two: The Professional Way: Intervention, Detox, Rehab, Aftercare
Three: The Al-Anon Way: To Stop Enabling; To Detach with Love
Four: The Work-Life Way: Programs to Start Recovery for Employees or Professionals
Five: The Law-Enforcement Way: Drunk-Driving Arrests, Drug Courts, Prison Programs
Six: The Therapeutic-Community Way: Daytop, Phoenix House, Samaritan, Others
Epilogue: Essentials/Safeguards for Staying in Recovery
Notes
Sources of Help and Information via Internet, Phone, Fax, Mail, and Print
Index