Drinking and Drugs in My Family is a creative, child-friendly program designed for use with elementary school children, filled with illustrations and original exercises to foster healing, self-understanding, and optimal growth.
Kids who drink are more likely to: * Be victims of violent crime. * Have serious problems in school. * Be involved in drinking-related traffic crashes. This guide is geared to parents and guardians of young people ages 10 to 14.
Best-selling recovery author Claudia Black introduces readers to five different families and reveals how each of the parents talked with their kids about recovery, relapse, and the child's own vulnerability to addiction.
Designed for professionals in the fields of child welfare, mental health, health care, education, law, the faith community & substance abuse prevention & treatment.
This guide describes the challenges such persons and families present to those providing end-of-life care, and shows caregivers how to best negotiate these issues with clients and their families.
John Belushi on cocaine ( Woodward , 1984 ) You can do enough freebase to kill you and not realize it because the base numbs your lungs and you can keep sucking it in . After that first hit , you spend the rest of the night trying for ...
All across the United States, individuals, families, communities, and health care systems are struggling to cope with substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders.
A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of ...
I am writing this book because I want to share my story.
These stories show that, no matter what is happening with your loved one, you have the power to control your own recovery.
“Detachment” has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict's loved ones has been to let the addict...