Addiction Medicine

Anne M. Fletcher is a trusted New York Times best-selling health and medical writer who visited 15 addiction treatment centers - from outpatient programs for the indigent to famous celebrity rehabs; from the sites of renowned 12-step centers to several unconventional programs - to find out what really happens. What she reveals ranges from inspirational to irresponsible and, in some cases, potentially dangerous.

In a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, 12 million opioid pain pills were distributed in just three years to a town with a population of 382 people. One woman, after losing her brother to overdose, was desperate for justice. Debbie Preece’s fight for accountability for her brother’s death took her well beyond the Sav-Rite Pharmacy in coal country, ultimately leading to three of the biggest drug wholesalers in the country. She was joined by a crusading lawyer and by local journalist Eric Eyre, who uncovered a massive opioid pill-dumping scandal.

If you want your day to start with a sense of freedom, power, and peace, if you want to live a life free from addiction, then keep reading. Everybody should be able to start their day fully empowered by the word of God. The key is feeding your mind with the word of God, and speaking out the word in order to live a glorious life. We are personalizing the word of God so that you can use the word in a practical way, a way which personally applies to your life and to your circumstances.

These days there's so much fear in the air, you can almost taste it - along with all the varieties of anxiety, anger, and addiction that grow out of it. How can you navigate your way through the fear and confusion, and find your way to peace? In Fear Less, acclaimed teacher and award-winning author Dean Sluyter shows how to use simple meditative techniques and subtle tweaks of body, mind, and breath to open your life to deep, relaxed confidence.

Nous négligeons bien trop souvent la façon avec laquelle nous nous adressons à nous-mêmes. Pourtant, elle est d’une influence considérable sur la manière dont nous nous comportons. Pour arrêter de fumer ou bien perdre du poids de façon efficace et durable, nous devons nous efforcer de tenir avec nous-même des propos et un dialogue positifs. Les affirmations positives sont un moyen extrêmement efficace d’y parvenir, et dont la pratique quotidienne reste une garantie de succès.

What substance can be used to cure depression, alleviate pain, and wean people off opiate and morphine addictions? Maybe you've never heard of it, but it comes from Thailand, and it's called kratom. So, what is kratom? Is it a dangerous, illegal narcotic, as the Thai government decided in 1943 and as other governments have agreed? Or is it a life-saving pain reliever that also can have stimulant and anti-depressant effects? That is the question we will investigate in this audiobook.

Would you like to lose weight fast and naturally? Are you looking for an easy and effective solution that allows you to appreciate yourself and your body? Achieving the desired results and losing weight can be really easy now using Self-hypnosis and gastric hypnosis: Hypnotherapy will help you develop healthier habits and eat smaller portions and feel fuller faster during meals. Learn to use gastric band hypnosis to stop your emotional eating and improve your eating habits. You will have the keys that can help you make the most of the power that lies within your mind.

Ready to move forward with your life and make meaningful changes, but you are regularly held back by mental health and/or trauma from your past? Unresolved trauma can cause a number of mental health conditions, but this doesn’t have to be the way life defines you forever. You deserve better!

This audiobook is about much more than turning a handle while bathing. Smash Your Comfort Zone with Cold Showers is about reclaiming your life, your recovery, your self-confidence, and your potential.

There is an alternative healing technique that is gaining popularity these days called Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT. It is more commonly known as EFT tapping because of the tapping method utilized by this particular healing process to alleviate a range of physical, spiritual, and emotional issues.

It is scientifically proven that the mind can’t tell the difference between imagined or actual experiences. Guided visualization directs your focus and triggers a health-inducing response or new perspective.Guided therapeutic imagery can help you recover from a range of addictions from cigarette smoking to binge eating.In 3 in 1: Guided Imagery Meditations, you'll discover: relaxing and effective experiences written and delivered by pros; a guided warm-up proven to calm your mind instantly; and more.

Harm reductionist Harley Hammond manages a dedicated team at the Bridgeworks Syringe Access Program in the heart of Portland, Oregon. Known as a pillar of compassion and hope, she fights for the rights and well-being of people who use drugs. When a torrent of fentanyl-laced heroin floods a city already crippled by the failed War on Drugs, overdose preventions are overwhelmed and the Bridgeworks team rushes to put life-saving supplies into the hands of those who need them most.

This isn’t a book about addiction—it’s a book about recovery. Written for every loved one, community member, and recovery professional who wants to know “how do I help?,” Recovery Allies offers real-world solutions, evidence-based strategies, and, above all, hope for the 23 million Americans living in recovery from substance use disorder.

Discover the easiest way to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle with hypnosis for women weight loss! Here's a must-have self-hypnosis guide for rapid weight loss through guided meditation, self-hypnosis, and powerful mini habits! This life-changing gastric band hypnosis guide states how hypnosis and other methods can be used as a psychological treatment for rapid women's weight loss and a healthier food approach!

Learn the secrets to reducing stress, lowering your blood pressure, relaxing, sleeping all night long, falling asleep faster, getting better sleep, being energetic, being happier, being more joyful, getting financially richer, retiring early, losing weight, curing drug addictions, curing addictions to alcohol, curing depression, curing anxiety, and being more focused in life!

Libere el poder de su mente para lograr una pérdida de peso rápida y sostenible con esta guía completa. Profundizando en la ciencia y la práctica de la hipnosis con banda gástrica, este libro le proporciona las herramientas y el conocimiento necesarios para aprovechar el increíble potencial de su mente subconsciente. Ya sea que esté luchando contra la adicción a la comida, la alimentación emocional o simplemente esté buscando una solución más efectiva para perder peso, este libro ofrece estrategias prácticas e ideas inspiradoras para ayudarlo a transformar su cuerpo y su vida.

Do you constantly experience pain? Are you tired of popping pills and hearing about surgeries? Would you like to integrate alternative pain relief methods without developing dependency? How about adopting holistic healing methods without overspending or experiencing any side effects?

Drop any painful self-destructive behavior by learning to quietly ask yourself just one powerful, self-awakening question. Find that question at the beginning of this course and answer it with new wisdom when asked again at the end. Plus, meet the addictive nature at the heart of all self-compromising behavior, and discover how to break free.

A story about the substance abuse epidemic with call to action reflecting on possibilities for change from the health care, social, and political standpoints.

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act was passed in 2008, and requires covered employers provide health plans to cover mental health services and substance abuse on the same basis as physical conditions.