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Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2014
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Description
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Kennedy Lawford revisits addiction in his latest book, What Addicts Know, this time framing the discussion in an entirely new way—the lessons addiction and recovery offer to those of us who haven't battled addiction.
For too long, society has considered addicts as an unfortunate group that faces incredible and unique challenges. The reality is that the challenges of the addict are...
For too long, society has considered addicts as an unfortunate group that faces incredible and unique challenges. The reality is that the challenges of the addict are...
Author
Description
"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
4) Intervention
Author
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment--and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen--Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.
6) 28 days
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A high-flying party girl gets herself a DUI and 28 days in rehab -- and ends up discovering that real happiness must come from within.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky. By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former...
11) Thirsty
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Recovering alcoholic Nina Parker and her daughter return to Nina's hometown two decades after she ran away from Abbey Hills, Missouri. Animals start disappearing from the Ozark reserve where Nina works, and turning up slaughtered. And someone or something is watching Nina. Wanting her. Stalking her with a 250-year-old desire that burns like a raging wildfire. Nina's ex-husband Hunt shows up, hoping to protect Nina and Megan, but another man has entered...
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Year of the Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This book is intended as a resource for parents who would like to help their adult child recover from addiction. It provides information on the various types of addiction treatment programs available, how to support your child in recovery, and taking care of your own mental health.
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Let nutrition guide you to sobriety (or to just drinking a little less) with this guide and meal plan to reduce alcohol cravings and repair your health through food. Trapped in alcohol's addictive grip, Dr. Brooke Scheller wanted a way out. For her, total sobriety was the answer to her problem, which she achieved by applying her skills as a doctor of nutrition, pairing her knowledge of nutrition with other integrative therapies to eliminate alcohol...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her...
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"When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Endangered by cars and highways, pollution and poachers, these turtles--with wounds so severe that even veterinarians would have dismissed them as fatal--are given a second chance at life. The League's founders, Natasha and Alexxia, live by one motto: Never give up on...
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