The Recovery Book: Answers to All Your Questions about Addiction and Alcoholism and Finding Health and Happiness in Sobriety - Softcover

Al J. Mooney; Howard Eisenberg; Catherine Dold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076117611X ISBN 13: 9780761176114

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Announcing a completely revised and updated second edition of The Recovery Book, the bible of addiction recovery. Written for the 23 million Americans struggling with alcohol and drugs, it is a clear, accurate, and comprehensive resource for patients, their families, and helping professionals (Anthony B. Radcliffe, M.D., former president, American Society of Addiction Medicine). Dr. Al Mooney, who lectures internationally on recovery, writing with medical and health journalists Howard Eisenberg and Catherine Dold, covers all the latest in addiction science and recovery techniques. Extensive research in neuroplasticity, for example, sheds new light on how alcohol and drugs actually alter pathways in the brain but also how this same process, when trained in recovery, can remould the brain, making sobriety a routine way of life. A new understanding of gender and addiction leads to revised insights, techniques, and new hope for treating women in recovery. The book also covers the latest problems and treatments for prescription drugs (now more pernicious than illegal drugs); up-to-date models for intervention; and more. But what really sets the book apart is its question-and-answer format My wife wants me to go to AA, and I think that s ridiculous. How can I settle this argument? I take a few oxycodone pills each week. They re prescription, so they must be safe, right? I ve been in this treatment centre for nearly a week. I feel great. I m cured. Why can t I leave now? That simple, direct approach makes the daunting journey to sobriety doable.

About this title

About the Author

Al J. Mooney, M.D., currently the Director of Addiction Medicine and Recovery at Willingway, lectures internationally on the latest science and treatments for recovery.Catherine Dold has covered health and environmental issues for The New York Times, Smithsonian, Discover, Self, and many other national publications.Howard Eisenberg is a medical journalist and coauthor of How to Be Your Own Doctor (Sometimes).

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076117611X
• ISBN 13: 9780761176114
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 624