Thinking Simply About Addiction: A Handbook for Recovery - Softcover

Sandor, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585426881 ISBN 13: 9781585426881

Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2009

Synopsis

A profound yet practical guide to understanding addiction and recovery from an authority on the subject.

No social problem today causes greater confusion than addiction. Whatever form it takes — alcohol, heroin, cocaine, nicotine, etc. — it tears apart homes and relationships, destroys careers and futures, and leaves loved ones asking: Why couldn't he stop once and for all? Or "get better"? Or control himself?

Despite everything that's been said and written, many people remain deeply confounded about these problems. The addiction-treatment field itself is in a state of civil war because there is no consensus on what addiction is, much less what to do about it.

Based on years of hard-won experience by a preeminent specialist in addictive behavior, Thinking Simply About Addiction explains the core truth of addiction: It is not a neurosis, a physical malady, a behavioral choice, or, in the narrowest sense, a moral failure. It is an automatism — an involuntary, non-stoppable behavior that once triggered leaves the addict powerless. It is a human problem and a part of human nature. As such, it is something that we all experience.

In four to-the-point chapters, Thinking Simply About Addiction rises above the noise level and provides real-world help and new ways of thinking for addicts and those who care for them. Its insights are so profoundly clear and sensible that many readers will be able to say: Finally, someone gets it.

About this title

About the Author:

RICHARD S. SANDOR, M.D. , is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than twenty-five years experience in the addiction field. He has served as a medical director at several different nationally recognized drug and alcohol treatment programs, including the Betty Ford Center (Los Angeles outpatient), Promises Treatment Center, and Saint John's Health Center, has been on the clinical faculty of UCLA, and has served as president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine from 1993 to 1995.

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Table of Contents

 

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

 

Chapter One - IS ADDICTION A DISEASE?

Chapter Two - WHY ME?

Chapter Three - DOES TREATMENT “WORK” ?

Chapter Four - IS A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING NECESSARY FOR RECOVERY?

 

References

Index

About the Author

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sandor, Richard S.

eISBN : 978-1-101-02226-9

1. Drug addiction—Treatment. 2. Alcoholism—Treatment. I. Title.
HV5801.S
362.29’18—dc22

 

 

 

Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with a physician. All matters regarding your health require medical supervision. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1585426881
• ISBN 13: 9781585426881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190