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Le dernier verre: de l'alcool et du bonheur
By Daniel Schreiber. 2017
C'est notre histoire à tous : l'histoire d'un penchant pour l'alcool, d'une consommation d'abord sociale et joyeuse qui, de verre…
en verre, de soirée en soirée, dérape vers la véritable addiction. Dans cet essai introspectif convoquant aussi bien Oliver Sacks ou David Foster Wallace que James Bond, Daniel Schreiber interroge avec lucidité notre rapport à l'alcool et s'attaque aux préjugés qui nous empêchent de parler ouvertement des formes les plus banales de cette maladie. 2017.Cornerstones: Daily Meditations for the Journey into Manhood and Recovery (Hazelden Meditations #1)
By Victor La Cerva. 2018
We all need tools to help us fully embrace the new way of life made possible through recovery. Truly break…
the addiction cycle by uncovering the reasons for former dependencies and behaviors, discovering new perspectives, reshaping your sense of masculinity, and building the coping skills that support real physical and emotional sobriety.Cornerstones provide the foundation for growth and strength. This collection of daily readings was designed specifically for men who are new to recovery or are working to move beyond the internal roadblocks that prevent true personal evolution in recovery. Overall health and wellness are supported by the author’s artful exploration of the common aspects and archetypes of masculinity we encounter in our lives. Complementary to working a Twelve Step program or other recovery approaches, this latest addition to Hazelden's incomparable series of daily meditation books fosters reflection, motivation, change, mindfulness, personal growth, and new definitions of manhood. Offering guidance, inspiration, spirituality, affirmation, and new definitions of manhood upon which to build a new life free from substance use and process or other addictions, each meditation in this collection was crafted to support your journey of recovery to become your best possible self.Drunks: An American History
By Christopher Finan. 2017
A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present dayToday, millions of Americans…
are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery from addiction. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing support for alcoholics who will face the danger of relapse for the rest of their lives. We have finally come to understand that alcoholism is a treatable illness. But in the beginning, our nation condemned drunks for moral weakness. President John Adams renounced his alcoholic son, Charles, and refused to bury him in the family crypt.Christopher Finan reveals the history of our struggle with alcoholism and the emergence of a search for sobriety that began among Native Americans in the colonial period. He introduces us to the first of a colorful cast of characters, a remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, a drunk who stopped drinking and dedicated his life to helping his people achieve sobriety. In the early nineteenth century, the idealistic and energetic “Washingtonians,” a group of reformed alcoholics, led the first national movement to save men like themselves. After the Civil War, doctors began to recognize that chronic drunkenness is an illness, and Dr. Leslie Keeley invented a “gold cure” that was dispensed at more than a hundred clinics around the country. But most Americans rejected a scientific explanation of alcoholism. A century after the ignominious death of Charles Adams came Carrie Nation. The wife of a drunk, she destroyed bars with a hatchet in her fury over what alcohol had done to her family. Prohibition became the law of the land, but nothing could stop the drinking.Finan also tells the dramatic story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who helped each other stay sober and then created AA, which survived its tumultuous early years and finally proved that alcoholics could stay sober for a lifetime. This is narrative history at its best: entertaining and authoritative, an important portrait of one of America’s great liberation movements.Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
By Mackenzie Phillips. 2017
Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips—Hollywood’s go-to person on substance…
abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education—brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery for the first time, and shares her experiences for those who are trying to overcome addiction.As the daughter of lead singers of the 1960s band The Mamas and The Papas, Mackenzie Phillips grew up in a dysfunctional environment and subsequently battled a near-fatal drug addiction. Now, delivered with warmth and candor, she presents the wisdom she gained from her own personal journey through addictions and her understanding of practical treatment from her work as a rehabilitation counselor. Using her own life experiences as examples of proven recovery methods, she shares the tools and holistic approaches that are available to help you on your journey to recovery. Treatment is not “one-size-fits-all” and Mackenzie encourages addicts and their support networks to research the methods that most effectively address their individual physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. Used by both recovering addicts and their families, Mackenzie’s book is a message of hope and reminds us that sobriety is a lifelong journey of the spirit that allows us to lift ourselves up even when we stumble and fall.La previa
By Miguel Carbajal. 2012
En esta publicación, padres y educadores encontrarán elementos paraestar en mejores condiciones de entender y de operar sobre elconsumo de…
la droga que prevalece entre los adolescentes. La idea de un mundo sin drogas es una utopía. Los adolescentes siemprese han topado y se toparán con este tipo de sustancias.Hoy, el consumo de grandes cantidades de alcohol caracteriza sus salidasde fines de semana. La motivación más concreta que manifiesta uno de cada tres adolescentes está relacionada con la búsquedaconcreta del efecto.La creencia es que sin alcohol la diversión no es posible y quevincularse con otros es más difícil. El alcohol funciona, entonces, comouna especie de lubricante social que se va instalando en sus vidas. En esta publicación, padres y educadores encontrarán elementos paraestar en mejores condiciones de entender y de operar sobre elconsumo de la droga que prevalece entre los adolescentes. La idea de un mundo sin drogas es una utopía. Los adolescentes siemprese han topado y se toparán con este tipo de sustancias.Hoy, el consumo de grandes cantidades de alcohol caracteriza sus salidasde fines de semana. La motivación más concreta que manifiesta uno de cada tres adolescentes está relacionada con la búsquedaconcreta del efecto.La creencia es que sin alcohol la diversión no es posible y quevincularse con otros es más difícil. El alcohol funciona, entonces, comouna especie de lubricante social que se va instalando en sus vidas.The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir (American Lives)
By Kim Adrian. 2018
Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter’s struggle to face the Medusa…
of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness, addiction, and violence, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried—even as they were formed—and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies. In The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet Adrian tries to make peace with this troubled past by cataloguing memories, anecdotes, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary. But within this strategic reckoning of the past, the unruly present carves an unpredictable path as Adrian’s aging mother plunges into ever-deeper realms of drug-fueled paranoia. Ultimately, the glossary’s imposed order serves less to organize emotional chaos than to expose difficult but necessary truths, such as the fact that some problems simply can’t be solved, and that loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean saving them.Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment
By Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks. 1990
Here is a powerful new program that can clear away the unconscious agreements patterns that undermine even your best intentions.…
Through their own marriage and through twenty years' experience counseling more than one thousand couples, therapists Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have developed precise strategies to help you create a vital partnership and enhance the energy, creativity, and happiness of each individual. You will learn how to: Let go of power struggles and need for control; Balance needs for closeness and separateness; Increase intimacy by telling the "microscopic truth"; Communicate in a positive way that stops arguments; Make agreements you can keep; Allow more pleasure into your life. Addressed to individuals as well as to couples, Conscious Loving will heal old hurts and deepen your capacity for enjoyment, security, and enduing love.From the Trade Paperback edition.Hijos gordos
By Martha Ch vez. 2013
Hijos gordos expone la problemática infantil en la alimentación y la obesidad (que en este país es el número uno)…
y, en su estilo, retoma casos que analiza a lo largo del libro. El libro que quitará la venda a las familias que no aceptan el problema de la obesidad infantil. ¿Por qué un libro sobre hijos gordos? Las estadísticas nos dan la respuesta: al margen de que México ocupe el primer lugar en obesidad infantil, en realidad el sobrepeso es ya una enfermedad globalizada. En la vida real se les llama "gordas" y no "obesas" a las personas con sobrepeso, y este término carga un sentido emocional particular, que la autora examinará a lo largo de este libro con absoluto respeto. A través de las historias de cuatro personas que fueron hijos gordos y que con generosidad compartieron sus experiencias, la autora de Tu hijo, tu espejo identifica la situación de cada sujeto y la estudia a fondo con su particular estilo, para ofreceruna atinada perspectiva sobre sus causas y sus posibles soluciones, y dejar claro que la problemática entraña dificultades sociales, familiares y personales. Como excelente complemento a su presentación, en el anexo "Hijos gordos. Un enfoque nutricional" la experimentada nutrióloga Margarita Chávez Martínez analiza cómo combatir la obesidad infantil cumpliendo a la vez con los requerimientos nutricionales indispensables para el ser humano.Sirens
By Joshua Mohr. 2017
Acclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr provides a captivating and complicated account of his years of substance abuse and culpability in his…
non-fiction debut. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded, Mohr traces his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid, through his first failed marriage, parenthood, heart-surgery, and his everyday struggle against relapse.RecoveryMind Training: A Neuroscientific Approach to Treating Addiction
By Paul Earley. 2017
An innovative guide for professionals that establishes an extraordinary approach to understanding the dynamics of addiction and the recovery process.…
RecoveryMind Training (RMT) includes state-of-the-art information on neuroscience and behavioral techniques. RMT challenges readers to see addiction from a different perspective and introduces a structured treatment model that will put order to the chaos typically found with addiction.Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military: Volume 5. Estimates for Installation- and Command-Level Risk of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment from the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study
By Andrew Gelman, Andrew Morral, Terry Schell, Jessica Hwang, Matthew Cefalu. 2018
The Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office asked the RAND Corporation to conduct an assessment of the…
rates of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the U.S. military. This volume presents survey estimates of how risk of sexual assault and sexual harassment varies across military installations and major commands using data from the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study.Indie Spiritualist: A No Bullshit Exploration of Spirituality
By Chris Grosso. 2014
Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grosso's collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of self-inquiry, recovery, and…
acceptance shows what it means to live a truly authentic spiritual life. Set amongst the backdrop of Grosso's original music (included for download via QR codes in the text), Indie Spiritualist encourages you to accept yourself just as you are, in all your humanity and imperfect perfection.tion of vignettes shows what it means to live an authentic, open, and mindful life. Indie Spiritualist empowers you to accept yourself as you are, in all your humanity and imperfect perfection.Daily Reflections on Addiction, Yoga, and Getting Well
By Rolf Gates. 2018
Deeply personal essays and daily prompts for self-reflection while healing from addiction and walking the road of recovery from the…
author of Meditations from the Mat and Meditations on Intention and Being.You are a process that has called forth a teaching for this day. This teaching will not be new to you; rather it will be reminding you of what you already know. Reminding you of who you already are.Rolf Gates, author of Meditations from the Mat, has walked the walk of the 12-step method of recovery while traveling down the Buddhist eightfold way and practicing the Eight Limbs of Classical Yoga. His integrated approach has been the key to his understanding of sobriety for over 25 years.In his series of 365 essays, Gates explores the lessons and experiences from his own practice and study, classical teachings, and his career as a teacher and coach. Each eloquent and brief essay is accompanied by a self-reflection prompt to help guide you on your journey of introspection and change.As the co-founder of the Yoga + Recovery Conference at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and Esalen Institute, Gates has made a significant contribution to understanding the role that yoga can play in recovery from addiction. With his personalized approach to both the modern and classic teachings and by embedding it within the space of the human heart and everyday life, Gates is a solid guide to finding and living the freedom that lives within each of us.Overcoming Opioid Addiction: The Authoritative Medical Guide for Patients, Families, Doctors, and Therapists
By Adam Bisaga, Karen Chernyaev, A. Thomas McLellan. 2018
From a leading addiction expert, a desperately needed medical guide to understanding, treating, and finally defeating opioid use disorder Drug…
overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, claiming more lives than the AIDs epidemic did at its peak. Opioid abuse accounts for two-thirds of these overdoses, with over 100 Americans dying from opioid overdoses every day. Now Overcoming Opioid Addiction provides a comprehensive medical guide for opioid use disorder (OUD) sufferers, their loved ones, clinicians, and other professionals. Here is expertly presented, urgently needed information and guidance, including: Why treating OUD is unlike treating any other form of drug dependencyThe science that underlies addiction to opioids, and a clear analysis of why this epidemic has become so deadlyThe different stages and effective methods of treatment, including detoxification vs. maintenance medications, as well as behavioral therapiesHow to deal with relapses and how to thrive despite OUDPlus a chapter tailored to families with crucial, potentially life-saving information, such as how to select the best treatment program, manage medications, and reverse an overdose.Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
By Koren Zailckas. 2005
The day Koren turned fourteen she emerged from her friend's kitchen clutching a bottle of Southern Comfort. At fifteen she…
and Natalie sneaked out one summer night, then next morning had to piece back together forgotten fragments of drink, men and misplaced clothes. At sixteen she was carried through the hospital doors unconscious. And so it began. . . Koren was a sweet and normal teenager, from a stable home and loving parents, yet throughout her teens and twenties she regularly drank herself to the point of oblivion. This is the shocking but utterly recognisable story of a girl who used alcohol to help herself grow up. It began by making her feel better and making life seem less scary. It helped her know who she was, how she felt. Over time, though, she found herself almost unable to meet anyone new or embark on any social occasion at college and, later, in work, without being drunk. Finally, Koren's experimentation descended into a chaotic, dangerous dependency, until, one day, she decided she needed help. Smashed is a beautifully written book and a brutally honest account of just how easy it is to surrender your life to binge drinking. Sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying, it is unfailingly sympathetic. Told in a voice that compels but never preaches, this is a book that needed to be written and demands to be read.Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays
By Kristi Coulter. 2018
Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort surprising sources of beauty and the…
odd often hilarious business of being human Leslie Jamison author of The Empathy Exams and The RecoveringKristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank funny and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency When Kristi stopped drinking she started noticing things Like when you give up a debilitating habit it leaves a space one that can t easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting And when you cancel Ros Season for yourself you re left with just Summer and that s when you notice that the women around you are tanked that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they could be making other kinds of noise In her sharp incisive debut essay collection Coulter reveals a portrait of a life in transition By turns hilarious and heartrending Nothing Good Can Come from This introduces a fierce new voice to fans of Sloane Crosley David Sedaris and Cheryl Strayed perfect for anyone who has ever stood in the middle of a so-called perfect life and looked for an escape hatchThe Addiction Spectrum: A Compassionate, Holistic Approach to Recovery
By Paul Thomas, Jennifer Margulis. 2018
If anyone you know is struggling with addiction or if you think you might have a problem …
you want to read this book GARTH STEIN bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain a proven comprehensive program that compassionately guides the reader to a place of resolution DAVID PERLMUTTER MD 1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and Brain Maker a massive achievement and a giant step forward for addiction medicine ANNIE GRACE author of This Naked Mind Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death for Americans under fifty Even as opiate addiction skyrockets more people than ever before are hooked on alcohol sedatives cigarettes and even screens The face and prevalence of addiction has changed and evolved but our solutions to addiction are stuck in the past We ve been treating addiction as a black or white issue a disease you either suffer from or will never suffer from The problem with this model is that it doesn t account for the incredible forces working against all of us pushing all of us toward addiction stress undernourishment sleep-deprivation vitamin D deficiency and isolation not to mention a flawed medical system and corrupt pharmaceutical companies doling out prescriptions at every turn The truth Addiction is a disease that like many others exists on a spectrum We are more vulnerable to becoming addicted to substances at certain points in our lives and based on the evidence provided in The Addiction Spectrum most effective at kicking addiction when we take a holistic approach With the help of the 13-point plan and individual protocols detailed in this book you have the power to change your destiny No one understands this more than Dr Paul Thomas who recovered from alcohol addiction early in his career and founded one of the most effective rehabilitation centers for teens and young adults in his hometown of Portland OR Named one of the top family doctors and one of the top pediatricians in the country Dr Paul is also board-certified in both integrative medicine and addiction medicine This unique combination of specialties is intentional Dr Paul has devoted his entire life and career to saving lives Using the best conventional medicine alongside the new science of alternative health Dr Paul has treated thousands of patients with the life-saving solutions provided in The Addiction Spectrum Addiction is a compendium of often devastating circumstances that have gone unchecked by society for far too long This book is a positive light and guide to overcoming not only addiction but the challenges and obstacles that affect us allSexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, And Consequences In Academic Science, Engineering, And Medicine
By Engineering, Medicine, National Academies of Sciences. 2018
Over the last few decades research activity and funding has been devoted to improving the recruitment …
retention and advancement of women in the fields of science engineering and medicine In recent years the diversity of those participating in these fields particularly the participation of women has improved and there are significantly more women entering careers and studying science engineering and medicine than ever before However as women increasingly enter these fields they face biases and barriers and it is not surprising that sexual harassment is one of these barriers Over thirty years the incidence of sexual harassment in different industries has held steady yet now more women are in the workforce and in academia and in the fields of science engineering and medicine as students and faculty and so more women are experiencing sexual harassment as they work and learn Over the last several years revelations of the sexual harassment experienced by women in the workplace and in academic settings have raised urgent questions about the specific impact of this discriminatory behavior on women and the extent to which it is limiting their careers Sexual Harassment of Women explores the influence of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific technical and medical workforce This report reviews the research on the extent to which women in the fields of science engineering and medicine are victimized by sexual harassment and examines the existing information on the extent to which sexual harassment in academia negatively impacts the recruitment retention and advancement of women pursuing scientific engineering technical and medical careers It also identifies and analyzes the policies strategies and practices that have been the most successful in preventing and addressing sexual harassment in these settingsThe Grandfamily Guidebook: Wisdom and Support for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
By Christine Adamec, Andrew Adesman. 2018
Are you one of nearly 3 million grandparents across North America raising your grandchildren You may have done all…
this parenting stuff before but times have changed since you raised your own kids and you likely never thought you d be raising kids again What has led to all these family issues and the growing need for grandparents to step up Now more than ever substance use and addiction have made many birth parents simply unfit for the job whether the problem is alcohol opioids or other drugs Family dynamics might also be undermined by parents mental health or medical problems incarceration or a simple lack of preparedness for family responsibilities Whatever the reason for your new role you must now help your grandchildren adjust to their extended family as part of their everyday life through the best care you are able to provide While your new role means that you will likely have to change the way you live the kinship care you provide your grandchildren might make all the difference in the world In The Grandfamily Guidebook which leading medical experts have called a must-have resource for grandparents raising grandchildren authors Andrew Adesman MD and Christine Adamec offer expert medical advice helpful insights gleaned from other grandparents and data mined from the 2016 Adesman Grandfamily Study the broadest and most diverse research study of its kind to date You ll also find hands-on tips you ll be able to reference whenever you need them including how to cope with difficult birth parents school issues and social-life challenges problem behaviors that stem from a difficult past and your own self-care Starting with its foreword by the renowned Dr William Sears across this book you will find practical inspiring help as you navigate the financial impacts legal considerations and medical issues that commonly arise when grandparents and grandchildren start becoming a grandfamilyLa niña inquebrantable: Una historia desgarradora de supervivenc
By Regina Calcaterra. 2014
La desgarradora historia de dos hermanas y su supervivencia desde las calles de Long Island hasta las granjas de…
Idaho En la secuela tan esperada al best seller del New York Times Grabada en la arena Regina Calcaterra se une a Rosie su hermana menor para relatar su historia desgarradora aunque finalmente triunfante de una ni ez de abusos y supervivencia Eran cinco hijos de cinco padres diferentes y una madre alcoh lica que los dejaba solos para que sobrevivieran como pudieran durante semanas Sin embargo durante esos momentos dif ciles se ten an la una a la otra Rosie la m s joven era cuidada y protegida por Regina su hermana mayor Cookie su madre irrumpe de forma inesperada en sus vidas como un hurac n destroza sin que le importe nada de lo que se encuentre a su paso Pero cuando Regina se emancipa aun siendo menor de edad y escapa sus hermanos son separados Y Rosie se da cuenta luego de que Cookie la secuestra de un hogar temporal que lo nico peor que ser abandonada por su madre es vivir en su presencia Maltratada f sicamente abusada emocionalmente y obligada a trabajar en la granja donde vive Cookie en Idaho Rosie se niega a darse por vencida Como su hermana Regina Rosie tiene una fortaleza incalculable ante aquella adversidad inimaginable la suficiente para sacarla de Idaho y de aquella pesadilla Las memorias de Rosie llenas de madurez y de gracia contin an la cautivadora historia que comenz con Grabada en la arena un testamento sorprendente pero profundamente conmovedor de la hermandad y valent a indomable