7 Tools To Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love - Softcover

Peele, Stanton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400048737 ISBN 13: 9781400048731

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2006

Synopsis

Whether you are battling drugs, nicotine, alcohol, food, shopping, sex, or gambling, this hands-on, practical guide will help you overcome addiction of any kind.

If you or a loved one are struggling with addiction but do not find that twelve-step or other treatment programs work for you, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction can help. Internationally recognized expert Dr. Stanton Peele presents a program for addiction recovery based on research and clinical study and grounded in science. His program utilizes proven methods that people actually use to overcome addiction, with or without treatment.

7 Tools to Beat Addiction offers in-depth, interactive exercises that show you how to outgrow destructive habits by putting together the building blocks for a balanced, fulfilling, responsible life. Dr. Peele's approach is founded on the following tools:

- Values
- Motivation
- Rewards
- Resources
- Support
- Maturity
- Higher Goals

This no-nonsense guide will put you in charge of your own recovery.

About this title

About the Author:

STANTON PEELE, Ph.D., J.D., is the author of the groundbreaking books Love and Addiction, Diseasing of America, and The Truth About Addiction and Recovery. An adjunct professor at the New York University School of Social Work and a senior fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, he has won the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the lifetime scholarship award from the Drug Policy Alliance. Visit his website at www.peele.net.

Synopsis:

The author of Love and Addiction introduces his seven-step program to help addicts of all kinds--from substance abuse to gambling to nicotine addiction--enhance their self-esteem, develop self-empowerment, put meaning in their lives, and overcome addictive behavior--offering such tools as values, motivation, rewards, resources, support, maturity, a

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400048737
• ISBN 13: 9781400048731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288