The Addiction Manifesto

Author : Jerry Weaver
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387748235

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The Addiction Manifesto by Jerry Weaver Pdf

Hello, I'm Jerry, army vet and a recovering addict. I wrote this book to help me stay sober but realized that if it could help keep a hopeless addict like myself sober then why wouldn't it help others? I have been blessed with another chance at life and so can you. I have tried to break down the addiction matrix, how addiction affects your mind and the tricks is uses to manipulate us to keep us in active addiction. We all know how dangerous that sweet voice of addiction can be, we've listened to it over and over again. The hardest step (to me) towards recovery was the very first step, admitting that I was a real addict and that I could not, would not, control my usage. I have broke down things that are helping me but we're all wired differently so you have to find what works for you. Thank you for reading this book and if you liked it please leave feedback or comments. Thank you and good luck!!

Author : JR Weaver
Publisher : Palmetto Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781638373490

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The Addiction Manifesto by JR Weaver Pdf

2021 Literary Titan Award Winner, 2021 American Writing Awards Winner, 2021 TCK Readers Choice Award Winner, 2021 Royal Dragonfly Award Winner, 2020 International Book Awards Finalist Army Veteran JR Weaver Chronicles His Journey To Recovery In The Addiction Manifesto Talented author and army veteran, JR Weaver, shares his experience battling addiction in his soon-to-be-launched book titled The Addiction Manifesto JR Weaver is an army veteran and person in long-term recovery who is passionate about the health and wellness of others as he is set to release his book titled The Addiction Manifesto. The author is looking to assist millions of people in different parts of the world through their journey to recovery as he details his experience and struggles with the hope of championing a global recovery revolution. Substance abuse and addiction remain a major plague that has continued to generate a lot of conversation across the globe due to its effect on people as well as its impact on the economies of nations. Unfortunately, recent statistics have shown a worrisome increase in the number of people suffering from addiction. According to a recent report published by the World Health Organization, about 270 million people, approximately 5.5% of the global population aged between 15 and 64, used psychoactive drugs with an estimated 35 million people suffering from drug use disorders and over 180 thousand deaths linked to drug use disorders in 2019. Unfortunately, many of the available addiction recovery resources are seemingly abstract, ultimately failing to yield the desired results. However, JR Weaver aims to change this narrative with the release of The Addiction Manifesto. The author personifies the recovery process, delivering an immersive experience to readers, as he writes about the trials and tribulations he faced during early recovery. JR Weaver aims to highlight the inherent powers of self-belief and how the personal desire to quit drug abuse remains the biggest obstacle to embracing a healthier, happier life. Published by Palmetto Publishing, The Addiction Manifesto initially started as a journal to help the author stay sober before he eventually decided to share his journey with the world as a self-help guide for persons in recovery as well as their loved ones. The book contains easy-to-implement yet effective tips that will help readers own their lives and become responsible members of the society. JR Weaver has already started to receive recognition from different quarters, emerging as a finalist at the 2020 International Book Awards in the Health: Addiction & Recovery category.

Author : Olatz Lopez-Fernandez
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783036512747

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Internet and Smartphone Use-Related Addiction Health Problems by Olatz Lopez-Fernandez Pdf

This Special Issue presents some of the main emerging research on technological topics of health and education approaches to Internet use-related problems, before and during the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The objective is to provide an overview to facilitate a comprehensive and practical approach to these new trends to promote research, interventions, education, and prevention. It contains 40 papers, four reviews and thirty-five empirical papers and an editorial introducing everything in a rapid review format. Overall, the empirical ones are of a relational type, associating specific behavioral addictive problems with individual factors, and a few with contextual factors, generally in adult populations. Many have adapted scales to measure these problems, and a few cover experiments and mixed methods studies. The reviews tend to be about the concepts and measures of these problems, intervention options, and prevention. In summary, it seems that these are a global culture trend impacting health and educational domains. Internet use-related addiction problems have emerged in almost all societies, and strategies to cope with them are under development to offer solutions to these contemporary challenges, especially during the pandemic situation that has highlighted the global health problems that we have, and how to holistically tackle them.

Author : Adrian Auler
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781490765310

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Climbing the Holy Mountain of Recovery by Adrian Auler Pdf

This story is about the development of my heroin addiction and my recovery from it. I struggled to escape from addiction for 17 years, but only succeeded after an ibogaine treatment. It is autobiographical, but I only describe traumatic episodes that contributed to addiction and sketch the highlights and milestones in my recovery. It is a memoir, as it offers a thematic view of my life and is moderate in scope; and a personal essay in which I offer insights about societys role in addiction. My intent is that addicts and their loved ones may better understand the nature of addiction so their approaches to treatment are better informed and more compassionate. At 66, I am a gentleman/hipster/Seeker and scholar, but Im not an armchair academic who wrote this book from a library: I was an addict for 22 years! Now I am blessed to be alive and have 18 years clean. My mission is to help addicts by educating the public and the professional community about addictions complexity and the efficacy of ibogaine for its treatment. I hope my story supports a change in social and medical attitudes so that the unheard voices of addicts will be honored, instead of just seeing them as social problems. Addiction put my life into suspended animation when I had a third of the credits I needed for a bachelors degree. 27 years later I returned to school; now I have bachelors degrees in Anthropology and Psychology and a Masters degree in East-West Psychology (EWP). I am currently a PhD. candidate in EWP at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California.

Author : Jessica Caplain
Publisher : JNR Publishing via PublishDrive
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : PKEY:6610000062072

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The Addiction and Recovery Formula by Jessica Caplain Pdf

"WHEN ADDICTS SUCCESSFULLY RECOVER, THIS IS WHAT THEY DO" Are you or a love one enslaved by some form of addiction? A nasty chemical and/or a psychological addiction you just can't get rid of? The purpose of this book is to provide you deeper level understanding how addictioon works, and the many options available to you to free yourself from it! Addiction and recovery from it, is no small feat, that you can just undermine and ignore. You have to fully understand what "it is", and the strategies you need to implement and commit to, to be free from it forever! Here's what you'll learn in this book: Introduction Rewards System Addiction Is Partly Hereditary Dependency And Craving True Addiction And Pseudo-Addiction Substance And Non-Substance Addiction Non-Substance Addiction: Gambling Non-Substance Addiction: Porn Kinds Of Drugs Substance Addiction: Alcohol Substance Addiction: Caffeine Nicotine Cannabis Cocaine Opium Other Types Of Drugs That Can Lead To Addiction Ritualization Drug Addiction Classification Indicators Of Drug Dependency How People Get Trapped In Addiction What Happens Drug Addiction Disease Our Perception Of Addiction Drug Addiction Treatments Taking Responsibility For Your Life Replacing Addiction With New Habits Changing Your Routines Inspiration To Freedom Get Motivated and much, much more.... Understand and get rid of addiction by DOWNLOADING THIS BOOK TODAY

Author : Nick Heather,Gabriel Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198727224

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Addiction and Choice by Nick Heather,Gabriel Segal Pdf

Views on addiction are often polarised - either addiction is a matter of choice, or addicts simply can't help themselves. But perhaps addiction falls between the two? This book contains views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and the law exploring this middle ground between free choice and no choice.

Author : Annie Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 194533519X

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How to Break an Addiction by Annie Spencer Pdf

What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social life--and how we free ourselves from it. How To Break An Addiction offers an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing U.S. opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction. In a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant 'progressive' presumption of the need to reform (or 'save') capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth. How To Break An Addiction renders visible the extent to which the world we inhabit today is made by addiction--in capital's image--and against life and well-being. Spencer calls for redress of the deepening crisis of addiction and the so-called 'epidemic' of pain at its root; for a paradigm shift away from the dominant economic logic in favor of new kinds of ecosystemic social practice and provision. We must innovate a new way of being human together in the here and now. Spencer's first-person narration anchors rigorous and far-reaching research and theory, making for an original and impactful tour through capital's addiction to crisis and our ability--and need--to break from it.

Author : Christopher B.R. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317634393

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Addiction, Modernity, and the City by Christopher B.R. Smith Pdf

Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "controlled" substance. Positing addiction as a "pathology (out) of place" that is specific to the (late-)capitalist urban landscape, the second section – Dope/Sick – conducts a critique of the prevailing pathology paradigm of addiction, proposing in its place a theoretical reconceptualization of drug dependence in the terms of "p/re/in-scription." Remapping the successive stages or phases of our narcotic modernity, the third section – Narco/State – delineates three primary eras of narcotic modernity, including the contemporary city of "safe"/"supervised" consumption. Employing an experimental, "intra-textual" format, the fourth section – Brain/Disease – mimics the sense, state or scape of intoxication accompanying each permutation of narcotic modernity in the interchangeable terms of drug, dream and/or disease. Tracing the parallel evolution of "addiction," the (late-)capitalist cityscape, and the pathological project of modernity, the four parts of this book thus together constitute a users’ guide to urban space.

Author : Philippe Fontaine,Jefferson D. Pooley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108487139

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Redrawing the Boundaries of the Social Sciences by Philippe Fontaine,Jefferson D. Pooley Pdf

Leading historians trace the changing fortunes of the social science of social problems since World War II.

Author : Rea, Alan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615208920

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Security in Virtual Worlds, 3D Webs, and Immersive Environments: Models for Development, Interaction, and Management by Rea, Alan Pdf

Although one finds much discussion and research on the features and functionality of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), the 3D Web, Immersive Environments (e.g. MMORPGs) and Virtual Worlds in both scholarly and popular publications, very little is written about the issues and techniques one must consider when creating, deploying, interacting within, and managing them securely. Security in Virtual Worlds, 3D Webs, and Immersive Environments: Models for Development, Interaction, and Management brings together the issues that managers, practitioners, and researchers must consider when planning, implementing, working within, and managing these promising virtual technologies for secure processes and initiatives. This publication discusses the uses and potential of these virtual technologies and examines secure policy formation and practices that can be applied specifically to each.

Author : Robert Granfield,Craig Reinarman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135015985

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Expanding Addiction: Critical Essays by Robert Granfield,Craig Reinarman Pdf

The study of addiction is dominated by a narrow disease ideology that leads to biological reductionism. In this short volume, editors Granfield and Reinarman make clear the importance of a more balanced contextual approach to addiction by bringing to light critical perspectives that expose the historical and cultural interstices in which the disease concept of addiction is constructed and deployed. The readings selected for this anthology include both classic foundational pieces and cutting-edge contemporary works that constitute critical addiction studies. This book is a welcome addition to drugs or addiction courses in sociology, criminal justice, mental health, clinical psychology, social work, and counseling.

Author : Craig Nakken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Compulsive behavior
ISBN : 0894864890

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The Addictive Personality by Craig Nakken Pdf

Author : Sarah E. James
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262046565

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Paper Revolutions by Sarah E. James Pdf

The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art’s postwar histories. In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR were isolated and conservative, James introduces a new narrative of neo-avantgarde practice in the Eastern Bloc that subverts many of the assumptions underpinning Western art’s postwar histories. She grounds her argument in the practice of four artists who, uniquely positioned outside academies, museums, and the art market, as these functioned in the West, created art in the blind spots of state censorship. They championed ephemeral practices often marginalized by art history: postcards and letters, maquettes and models, portfolios and artists’ books. Through their “lived modernism,” they produced bodies of work animated by the radical legacies of the interwar avant-garde. James examines the work and daily practices of the constructivist graphic artist, painter, and sculptor Hermann Glöckner; the experimental graphic artist and concrete and sound poet Carlfriedrich Claus; the mail artist, concrete poet, and conceptual artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt; and the mail artist, “visual poet,” and installation artist Karla Sachse. She shows that all of these artists rejected the idea of art as a commodity or a rarefied object, and instead believed in the potential of art to create collectivized experiences and change the world. James argues that these artists, entirely neglected by Western art history, produced some of the most significant experimental art to emerge from Germany during the Cold War.

Author : Lauren Etter
Publisher : Crown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593237991

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The Devil's Playbook by Lauren Etter Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this “deeply reported and illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided—and the vaping epidemic was born. “The best business book I’ve read since Bad Blood.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Ali: A Life Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris’s parent company and a veteran of the industry’s long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company—the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive upside of the original without the same apparent health risks and bad press. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, Adam Bowen and James Monsees began working on a device that was meant to save lives and destroy Big Tobacco, but they ended up baking the industry’s DNA into their invention’s science and marketing. Ultimately, Juul’s e-cigarette was so effective and so market-dominating that it put the company on a collision course with Philip Morris and sparked one of the most explosive public health crises in recent memory. In a deeply reported account, award-winning journalist Lauren Etter tells a riveting story of greed and deception in one of the biggest botched deals in business history. Etter shows how Philip Morris’s struggle to innovate left Willard desperate to acquire Juul, even as his own team sounded alarms about the startup’s reliance on underage customers. And she shows how Juul’s executives negotiated a lavish deal that let them pocket the lion’s share of Philip Morris’s $12.8 billion investment while government regulators and furious parents mounted a campaign to hold the company’s feet to the fire. The Devil’s Playbook is the inside story of how Juul’s embodiment of Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos wrought havoc on American health, and how a beleaguered tobacco company was seduced by the promise of a new generation of addicted customers. With both companies’ eyes on the financial prize, neither anticipated the sudden outbreak of vaping-linked deaths that would terrorize a nation, crater Juul’s value, end Willard’s career, and show the costs in human life of the rush to riches—while Juul’s founders, board members, and employees walked away with a windfall.

Author : Naazneen H. Barma,Steven K. Vogel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000414684

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The Political Economy Reader by Naazneen H. Barma,Steven K. Vogel Pdf

The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy – the "market-institutional" perspective – which emphasizes the ways in which markets are embedded in political and social institutions. This perspective offers a compelling alternative to the market-liberal view, which advocates freer markets and less government intervention in the economy, as if states and markets were naturally at odds with each other. The reader embraces a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of political economy, with extensive coverage from sociology, economics, history and political science. It includes some of the most important classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives on political economy. And it engages some of the most topical debates in political economy today, such as climate change, the global financial crisis, inequality, the digital platform economy, and the COVID-19 pandemic. For political economy courses at a variety of levels and from a range of disciplines, the reader is also of interest to scholars and citizens wanting perspective on the intersection of economics, politics, and society. New to the Second Edition • More than 20 new readings included by such notables as Elinor Ostrom, E. J. Hobsbawm, Dani Rodrik, Amartya Sen, Thomas Piketty, and Mariana Mazzucato among many others. • Fully updated introductions to the book and each thematic chapter of readings. • Coverage of key emerging debates including climate change, the financial crisis, inequality, the digital platform economy, and COVID-19