Witness To Addiction

Author : Michele Gerber Ph.D.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798385001248

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Witness to Addiction by Michele Gerber Ph.D. Pdf

Addiction is the Biblical plague of our time, and the battle against it is up to each one of us. Although it may seem hopeless, every single person can take actions to fight this scourge that is killing an American every five minutes. This book offers real, hands-on answers about what can be done, what works and what does not, and how Americans can regain a sense of control over the addiction epidemic. This practical guide is for parents and grandparents, school personnel, employers, faith leaders, elected officials and policy makers, and others who want to make a difference against this cruel blight. The answers were gained through the long and painful experiences of a mother whose son died as a result of his opioid addiction. The story told here is a dramatic, page-turning, and real account, with heart-stopping fear, cliff-hanging rescues, periods of despair and respites of relief and joy that the son and his mother shared. Their love for each other was strong, but the mother learned that love is not enough to fight a terrible disease. As a professional researcher and writer, she sought answers after her son’s death in science, history, public health policy, and spirituality. In this book, she shares what she learned and brings the reader inside one of the most important and timely topics in the nation today.

Author : Linda Schierse Leonard
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:49015002807551

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Witness to the Fire by Linda Schierse Leonard Pdf

In Witness to the Fire, Linda Schierse Leonard, Ph.D., explores the dark and fiery journey of transformation from the bondage of addiction to the freedom of recovery through creativity. A Jungian analyst, Leonard studies the relationship of creativity and addiction in the lives of writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eugene O'Neill, Jean Rhys, and Jack London, as well as the experiences of ordinary men and women. Leonard holds out the hope that anyone bound by addiction can reclaim the power that fuels dependency for a life of joy and creativity.

Author : Norman S. Miller
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 008092476X

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Principles of Addictions and the Law by Norman S. Miller Pdf

The book includes an examination of sources of law important to addiction and its treatment. The foundations for forensic work in professional legal testimony is explored (e.g., legal system, case law precedent, statutes governing addictions, civil and criminal procedures). The science of addiction is featured including the biology of addiction, addiction as a brain disease, responsibility vs. loss of control, development of addictions, and the role of genetics and environment. Drug testing, its uses with forensic populations, what the tests show and do not show, controversies in using tests in the general population also receives extensive treatment. Addiction and mental illness in forensic populations is highlighted for addiction treatment and continuing care. Case studies and landmark cases illustrate the role of alcohol, drug use, and addictions in legal decisions. Focused primarily on alcohol and drug addictions Case studies and landmark cases are included to illustrate the role of alcohol/drugs in legal decisions (e.g., the Exxon Valdez case) Brief overview of legal system and drug courts will be useful to clinicans, lawyers, administrators, and other professionals

Author : Karin Slaughter
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062858948

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False Witness by Karin Slaughter Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."— theSkimm Recommended by Washington Post • theSkimm • GMA.com • Popsugar • Bustle • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Augusta Chronicle • Sun-Sentinel • Mystery and Suspense Magazine • and more! He saw what you did. He knows who you are… From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller. AN ORDINARY LIFE… Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST... But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence. BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP… On a Sunday night at her daughter’s school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn't have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They're scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Suddenly she has a lot more to lose than this case. The only person who can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie—the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they’ve been through. But with the life-shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice... “A high-stakes thriller . . . Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous.” –OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE

Author : Roy Barkley
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Alcoholics.
ISBN : 0879734450

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The Catholic Alcoholic by Roy Barkley Pdf

Author : Heath A. Diehl
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785276149

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Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 19852015 by Heath A. Diehl Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that historically have connoted reason, order, civilization. Addiction, Representation undertakes an investigation into an alternative literary tradition that unsettles this limited portrayal of the addict. The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to both diegetic and extra-diegetic addicts—an approach that, at its core, is focused on understanding.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1724 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015028110024

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Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: New York-New Jersey by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1760 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Governmental investigations
ISBN : MINN:31951D01983395G

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Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce Pdf

Author : Geri Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119433064

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Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling by Geri Miller Pdf

FULLY REVISED, COMPREHENSIVE, AND PRACTICAL BOOK OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ADDICTION COUNSELING Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, Fifth Edition introduces mental health professionals and students to the field of addiction counseling and helps them acquire the knowledge and develop the skills needed to counsel individuals who are caught in the destructive cycle of addiction. Drawing from her years of experience in working in the addiction counseling field as a counselor, trainer and educator, Geri Miller provides an engaging, balanced overview of the major theoretical foundations and clinical best practices in the field. Fully updated, the fifth edition offers a compassionate accountability, practice-oriented counseling framework and features: A research-based clinical application approach to addiction counseling that practitioners can turn to for fundamental, practical, clinical guidelines. Revised chapters that reflect important changes in research and practice, including new assessment instruments and new and expanded treatments. Additional case studies, interactive exercises, key points and other resources that facilitate the integration of knowledge into practice. A new chapter of "Supervision and Mentoring". Revised "Personal Reflections" section at the beginning of each chapter that provide an invaluable, unique perspective on the author's view of addiction counseling. Updated and expanded Instructor Resources that include brief video clips, PowerPoint slides, test bank questions for each chapter, and sample syllabi. From assessment and diagnosis of addiction to preparing for certification and licensure as an addiction counseling professional, this comprehensive book covers essential components required to work as a professional in the field of addiction counseling.

Author : Srdjan Sremac,Srđan Sremac
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9783643904515

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Addiction and Spiritual Transformation by Srdjan Sremac,Srđan Sremac Pdf

This study explores the relationship between addiction and spiritual transformation. More specifically, it examines how recovering drug addicts employ testimonies of conversion and addiction to develop and sustain a sense of personal unity and create meaning from varied experiences in life. Drawing on 31 original autobiographies, the book analyzes conversion and addiction testimonies in two European contexts: Serbia and The Netherlands. (Series: Religion and Biography / Religion und Biographie - Vol. 22)

Author : Thomas Figlioli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1737077701

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That's What Junkies Do by Thomas Figlioli Pdf

That's What Junkies Do is a brutally honest, often dark journey of one man's struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction. The story starts innocently enough in 1980's Brooklyn, NY, with a young boy, Thomas Figlioli, making a bad choice so he could gain the respect of a group of kids he looked up to and admired. Alcohol gives him the courage to be the person he always wanted to be. His fear and insecurity leaves and his lifelong struggle begins. Being a good student, Thomas lands a scholarship to Pace University in Pleasantville, New York, where his alcohol use and hard partying ways increase with each passing day. When things start to turn sour in Pleasantville, he moves back to Brooklyn for a geographic change. It is back in his old hometown that his life starts to unravel at a steady and almost torturous pace. After losing a promising career in the financial industry, his life turns even darker, eventually being hospitalized in a psych unit for alcohol and cocaine use. Once released he immediately reverts to the same ways. Thomas's life becomes a vicious cycle of addiction, graduating to harder and more damaging drugs. There is nothing he won't do and nobody he won't hurt. When thoughts of ending it all become a better choice than living how he is, Thomas finally asks for help and gets it through a program of twelve step recovery. He comes back to life only to fall back into his old ways a few short years later. Now, a grown man and upstanding citizen, with a career, a fiancé and people who count on him every day, Thomas secretly navigates his way through a seven-and-a-half-year struggle with various prescription medications, eventually finding his way back to recovery and the life he always prayed for when times were at their worst.

Author : Kate Russo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642304811

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Total Addiction by Kate Russo Pdf

Seeing a total solar eclipse is often described as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. However, for many who have experienced totality, once-in-a-lifetime is simply not enough. They want more, and are willing to go to great lengths often at great expense to repeat the experience. What is it like to experience totality? What is it about the experience that motivates these eclipse chasers? Is there an eclipse chaser personality? Can eclipse chasing actually be described as an addiction? This book describes the people who dedicate their lives to chasing their dream.

Author : Stephen R. Kandall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 067485361X

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Substance and Shadow by Stephen R. Kandall Pdf

This work uncovers the history of women and addiction in America and how dependent women have been treated. The author is critical of doctors who have often been quick to prescribe narcotics to female patients.

Author : Sam Jones
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781602661332

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Breaking the Spirit of Addiction by Sam Jones Pdf

Jones provides an in-depth look at how Jesus Christ offers complete and permanent deliverance from Satans traps, as opposed to the constant recycling process in which many addicts find themselves just "going through the motions" of secular recovery programs. (Practical Life)

Author : James C. Cissell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Criminal procedure
ISBN : UOM:39015047756096

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Proving Federal Crimes by James C. Cissell Pdf