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When sex and drugs are combined repeatedly and compulsively, there is a high risk of developing what Dr. David Fawcett calls sexualized drug use. This condition is also referred to as paired substance/sex addiction. Unfortunately, the response from the professional community to sexualized drug use has been far from adequate. As Dr. Fawcett writes, “I have had countless clients come to me who have gone through well-known and otherwise exceptional drug addiction treatment programs that never addressed co-occurring behavioral addictions—most notably sex and porn addiction."

Sober Fitness En Francais is your guide to rebuilding your physical and mental health as you embrace a life free from alcohol. Whether you’re in early recovery or years into your sobriety journey, this book offers practical, empowering tools to strengthen your body and mind.

The moment your vape battery dies a familiar unease creeps in. You tell yourself you're in control, but deep down, you know it’s not true. You check your pockets, your bag, just in case. You’ve tried cutting back, quitting cold turkey, only vaping socially — but it never sticks. Before you know it, you're right back where you started. $2,500 a year, gone. You feel it in your lungs climbing stairs, when your mood shifts without warning. The exhaustion, the irritability — it spills into your work, your relationships, the way you show up in your own life.

This interpretation of the 12 Steps offers a simple, practical, and highly effective method of working through the steps. I invite you to take this transcendent journey towards contented sobriety. There is no need to become concerned about using God as a higher power. All that is required is an agnostic-friendly sponsor. I offer a whole chapter about healthy sponsorship boundaries in AA. Despite being an agnostic, the twelve steps enabled me to begin having healthier relationships as a recovering alcoholic.

What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides listeners through twenty embodied practices that promote the rewiring of the ANS. By integrating the latest neuroscience from Stephen Porges's Polyvagal Theory with Eugene Gendlin's embodied felt sense, Jan Winhall's Felt Sense Polyvagal Model is a paradigm-shifting, deeply somatic approach to healing trauma and addiction.

Supere las garras de la adicción y abra un nuevo capítulo en su vida, incluso si lo ha intentado todo y se siente estancado ¿Se siente atrapado en un ciclo interminable de adicción, anhelando la libertad pero sin saber cómo encontrarla? ¿Sus relaciones están tensas y las responsabilidades cotidianas se sienten como una montaña? ¿Anhela comprensión y apoyo en un mundo que a menudo malinterpreta su lucha? Si su respuesta es "sí", ciertamente no está solo.

Jordan Jongema nearly died in a January snowstorm—not from the cold outside, but from the internal collapse of a system poisoned by alcohol and years of silent self-destruction. What followed was a descent into the most violent hell a human body can endure: full-blown Delirium Tremens. Hallucinations, disintegration of the mind, and a soul clawing to stay in the fight. It wasn’t just detox. It was an exorcism. And it almost killed him.

A recovering drug addict details the arduous but liberating process of forging a recommitted marriage’s path to healing and balance.

Is marijuana safe? Can marijuana cause physical or mental illness, and can those problems be permanent? Is marijuana addictive? Is marijuana a gateway drug? Should marijuana be legal, and does legalization decrease crime? Does marijuana have adverse effects on a user’s loved ones and society? Is marijuana a miracle drug that treats many medical problems? Are CBD and delta-8 safe and effective? Dr. Raymond Wiggins answers these questions and many more based on extensive research.

Breaking Free is your ultimate guide to reclaiming your life from alcohol and building a future filled with purpose, joy, and fulfillment. In this compassionate and practical self-help book, you will find the tools, strategies, and inspiration to take control of your drinking, whether you're questioning your relationship with alcohol or fully committed to quitting for good. This book is not just about quitting drinking—it’s about transforming your life.

What does a mother do when after ten years of drug and alcohol abuse her son is faced with serious jail time? After all of her family’s attempts to save him have failed, is prison the only solution? She takes on the challenge to travel 1,300 miles to be with him when he is taken into custody. To bear witness to his downfall, to be present, to love him. But must she accept the fate that awaits him? This is a mother’s tale. A true story, told through her eyes, of her journey to save her son, who did not want to be saved.

Your definitive trauma-sensitive guide to working the Steps: skills for understanding your addiction, processing your trauma, and navigating your recovery journey—the anticipated companion to Trauma and the 12 Steps.

* *Book Description: **Embark on a transformative journey with "The Sober Solution: A Recovery Guide." This concise yet powerful guide addresses the complexities of alcoholism with honesty and clarity, offering listeners a pathway to recovery and renewed hope. In this insightful book, you'll find a candid discussion about the realities of alcohol dependence, revealing the emotional and physical challenges that come with it. Drawing from personal experiences and practical knowledge, I share actionable tips and strategies designed to empower individuals on their road to sobriety.

The book Drug Hell is a true story of the former drug addict, and criminal, Kimmo Harjula. His hell began when he was only seven years old. His parents were alcoholics, and he was continually beaten and sexually assaulted throughout his childhood. To survive, he began to sniff glue, smoke hash and drinking alcohol. His life became a crazy mess, filled with drugs and serious crime, which lasted for over thirty years. He was placed in fortysix foster homes before the age of eighteen and spent fourteen years in prison.

Are you overwhelmed by social pressures to drink but curious about the life-changing effects of going alcohol-free? Do you long for a month of improved health, mental clarity, and the financial relief that accompanies a break from alcohol? Have you wanted to explore the sober lifestyle but are concerned about cravings, support, and what to expect? Mocktails Over Cocktails is precisely what you need—it's an engaging guide to confidently abstaining from alcohol while enhancing your well-being.

What if quitting gambling wasn’t about resisting urges but rewiring your brain? You’ve tried to stop. You’ve made promises to yourself, convinced this time will be different. But somehow, you get pulled back in, leaving you drained and searching for a real way out. The stress, the constant battle…it’s exhausting. But the truth? Quitting isn’t about willpower. It’s about freeing your brain from the faulty reward loops that make gambling feel irresistible.

Are you tired of the failed attempts and empty promises when it comes to quitting smoking? This audiobook is your beacon of hope, revealing the real and effective methods that will guide you towards a smoke-free life. "The Real Way to Quit Smoking" takes a bold approach by uncovering the secrets to overcoming nicotine addiction and empowering you with the knowledge and tools to succeed. Through expert guidance and insights, you'll discover a range of effective methods that address the physical, psychological, and emotional aspects of addiction.

Introduced to heroine and alcohol for the first time at the tender age of eight-years-old programmed me and opened up a flood gate of feel good receptors in my brain, causing a high that I spent years trying to recreate over and over again.

Between the ages of 18 and 26, author Sasha Kildare's summers became drugs, sex, psychosis, and psych wards. During manic episodes, she ended up in handcuffs and was raped several times. The integrative treatment she received at Bellevue Hospital, her seventh hospitalization, broke that cycle. She shares her compelling story, knowledge, and insight that allowed her to overcome buried childhood trauma and addiction so that she could experience motherhood, fulfilling careers, and long-term remission from bipolar depression.

After years of hiding her addiction from everyone—stockpiling pills in her Louboutins and elaborately scheduling her withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—Laura Cathcart Robbins is running out of places to hide. She has learned the hard way that even her high-profile marriage and Hollywood lifestyle can’t protect her from the pain she’s keeping bottled up inside. Facing divorce, the possibility of a custody battle, and the insistent voice of internalized racism that nags at her as a Black woman in a white world, Laura wonders just how much more she can take.

In Push Off from Here, McKowen delves deeply into each of her nine points: what they mean, how they work, and how every person can live them. She addresses topics such as the correlation between trauma and addiction, the importance of radical honesty, letting go of the illusion of control, the value of community, a reminder that healing is a continual process, and that the process is a gift. Whether you’re just starting out or have been sober for decades, McKowen instructs us to be kind to ourselves: Change is messy and progress is rarely linear, but we can always push off from here.

Studies show that in the past 50 years, human life expectancy has been increasing by three years per generation. People who manage to live for 65 years and beyond understand there are no limits to changing their lives so that they can enjoy life for longer.

Miriam tried for most of her life to hide her mental illness. She hoped that if she pretended it didn't exist, nobody else would notice it either. That didn't happen. Unexplainable rage attacks, persistent intrusive thoughts and a recurring overwhelming despair are difficult to hide. Working as an x-ray technologist through Covid-19 contributed to her declining mental health. In a desperate attempt to numb the pain and cheer herself up she reached for what society endorses as the ultimate relaxant: wine.

The goal is 90. Just 90 clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With 73 days in rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including the seemingly unshakably sober Asa and Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse. At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses for the first time with only three days left.

There are numerous explanations for why an individual may become addicted to gambling. No one reason makes people get into this awful habit, but it becomes a severe problem in their lives once they do. The increase of online gambling is on the rise, and the seduction of advertising to rope people in, again and again, even when they wish to leave is vulgar and obscene, to say the least.

As she winds her way on her motorcycle through Northern Ontario, Canada, Tracey Rogers reflects on the most difficult periods in her life, courageously sharing how she overcame events that led her into the dark depths of self-loathing. Rogers opens her life story like a wide county road, revealing how she emerged from severe childhood trauma, and an incredible addiction odyssey through small towns in Canada to big cities and beaches in the United States. This is the journey of Rogers’ extraordinary life.

"Trinkerbelle" ist die berührende und wahre Geschichte einer Frau, die nach jahrelangen Kämpfen endlich nüchtern werden durfte und seit Maria Himmelfahrt 2018 nicht mehr trinken muss.

Roken is een fuik, waar je, meestal als jongere, nietsvermoedend in zwemt. Te laat merk je dat je niet meer terug kunt. Alleen Carr laat zien hoe die fuik in elkaar zit, zodat je er moeiteloos uit kunt zwemmen. Hij gebruikt geen trucjes of hulpmiddelen. Carr ontrafelt slechts haarfijn de mechanismen die een roken doen roken. Wie dat eenmaal doorziet, merkt dat stoppen met roken heel eenvoudig is, vanaf de eerste dag.

Addiction is a subject which straddles public and personal interests; societal and criminal justice concerns; and family, social, and medical responses. It is a continuing area of uncertainty and concern for society and professionals trained in the field. This Very Short Introduction presents the basic facts about addiction: what it is, how and why it develops, how it is treated, and how society can respond to it.

Varför är det så skamligt att inte kunna hantera alkohol eller att vara anhörig till någon som missbrukar? Enligt Folkhälsomyndigheten lever cirka 300.000 personer i Sverige med ett alkoholberoende. Utöver det finns ett mörkertal samt personer som lever med riskbruk eller missbruk. Det har gjorts flera beräkningar på hur mycket alkoholen kostar samhället, men de sociala konsekvenserna av alkoholberoende går inte att mäta i siffror men är inte desto mindre verkliga.