The Harm Reduction Guide to Controlling Your Drug and Alcohol Use
"Just say no" just doesn't work for everyone. If you've tried to quit and failed, simply want to cut down, or wish to work toward sobriety gradually, join the many thousands of readers who have turned to this empathic, science-based resource--now thoroughly revised. A powerful alternative to abstinence-only treatments, harm reduction helps you set ......
A Practical Guide to Treatment, Self-Help, and Quitting on Your Own
Introduces readers to varying types of self-help addiction treatment options, providing assistance in deciding which option is best for the individual.
A Practical Guide to Treatment, Self-Help, and Quitting on Your Own
Introduces readers to varying types of self-help addiction treatment options, providing assistance in deciding which option is best for the individual.
This workbook is an initial approach for helping teenagers become aware, both cognitively and emotionally, of the negative consequences of their drug and/or alcohol use. It is hoped that by seeing for themselves how not using can make their life better, teenagers will become motivated toward beginning treatment. This is a package of 5.
What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You : The First Comprehensive Guide to the Health Consequences of Smoking
From impotence to diabetes, cataracts to psoriasis, the proven dangers of smoking go well beyond heart and lung disease. This book details the various known health threats of smoking. It features chapters that explain how cigarette smoking can effect the body from head to toe.
Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive substance in the world, and one of the widest-traded commodities in the forms of coffee, tea and cola soft drinks. But is consumption of caffeine safe in terms of physical and mental health? Addressing this question, the author of this volume traces how caffeine consumption evolved as well as how caffeine is absorbed, distributed and metabolized in our bodies. He then discusses the effects of caffeine on: psychomotor and cognitive performance; psychological well-being; blood pressure and cardiovascular health; carcinogenic potentials; pregnancy and perinatal health; athletic performance; and diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The book concludes with an examination of the issue of whether or not caffeine is a drug of abuse, and whether or not there is a safe level of caffeine consumption.
James traces how caffeine consumption evolve d, as well as how caffeine is absorbed, distributed and meta bolised in our bodies. He discusses caffeine''s effects on ou r physical and mental health, and examines whether caffeine is a drug of abuse. '
A sequel to "How To Stay Sober", this book recounts the evolution of SOS and details case histories of recoveries. It contains excerpts from letters to SOS, which speak to the need for a secular alternative to AA.
