Addiction Medicine

A guide to designing a personal program to break your addictions safely, gently, and naturally.

The truth: Addiction is a disease that, like many others, exists on a spectrum. We are more vulnerable to becoming addicted to substances at certain points in our lives and based on the evidence provided in The Addiction Spectrum, most effective at kicking addiction when we take a holistic approach. With the help of the 13-point plan and individual protocols detailed in this audiobook, you have the power to change your destiny.

The Word builds faith, and faith builds strength and resilience. Bible-Based Affirmations for Strength and Addiction contains more than 250 affirmations that will empower you to face each day with renewed strength. Listen to these affirmations and repeat some of them on a daily basis. The Word of God is so effective, it will never go back to God without having made changes, an impact, and a transformation. This transformation will happen in every area of your life.

Written with warmth, accessibility, and vast authority, The Addiction Solution is a practical guide through the world of drug use and abuse and addiction treatment. Here, Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, Chief Mental Health Officer of the NYS Office of Mental Health and the Medical Editor for Mental Health at the Huffington Post, brings together scientific and clinical knowledge, policy suggestions, and case studies to describe our current drug crisis and establish a clear path forward to recovery and health.

This book is for everyone who is suffering from the disease of addiction or who cares about someone who is: for addicts, their families and friends, and their health care providers. It is for those who are currently in recovery and looking for a way to shift their recovery into a higher gear - from just surviving and muddling through to becoming the absolute best version of themselves, from mere recovery to Integral Recovery.

Maybe you’re looking for an alternative treatment for a medical condition, or want to know about the dangers and side effects of marijuana. Or, maybe you simply want to educate yourself about this drug so you can have an informed opinion. Whatever your motivation for uncovering the truth about marijuana, you’re in the right place. Marijuana is a potent and complex drug with a wide range of effects. With everything you need to know about the drug at your fingertips, you can be empowered to make the best decision about whether to use or avoid it.

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine's effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety.

This audiobook will show that your subconscious is the most powerful tool to help alter your life in a positive manner.

Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science - not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction.

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.

Have you found yourself doing something and thinking, Why do I keep doing this? We all have an unhealthy habit - or two, or three. Yours may be as simple as wasting time on the Internet, constantly checking your email, or spending too much time in front of the TV. Or it may be more serious, like habitual drinking, emotional overeating, constant self-criticism, or chronic worrying. Whatever your harmful habit is - you have the power to break it.

Codependence: Coping with Addiction, Sadism and Abuse is based on a white paper the author drafted for a drug rehabilitation center in the United States. The study is basically divided in three parts, dealing with different manifestations of parent-child codependence and the resulting lacking autonomy and self-reliance of the later adolescent and young adult, who, as a result of his early entanglement with a parent gets into a negative growth spiral by a rather queer sexual development (sadism), and dependency patterns in all spheres of life.

"By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it" Matthieu Ricard

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!

Engage with effective healing meditation practices. Karen Casey offers invaluable wisdom, encouraging women in recovery to learn the art of compassion, acceptance, creativity and more. Spiritual meditation exercises are peppered throughout the book, allowing you to heal with each coming day.

This book looks at each of the most common substances that people become addicted to and offers specific advice on how to tackle that particular substance safely and effectively yourself. In-depth yet practical and accessible, How to Quit Without Feeling S**t will allow you to understand why you feel the way you do, whether you have a dependency or have already given up but still feel lousy.

If you’re suffering from a physical or mental ailment, you’ve doubtless been presented with a number of possible treatments. Some of these might help, and others, not so much. It may seem surprising, but one of the best places to start for a number of issues is with guided therapeutic imagery. The practice has been around since the ancient Greeks and has received endorsements from health professionals since the 1970s for treating serious illnesses.

Living a healthy lifestyle and getting the healing sleep your body craves can be as natural as brushing your teeth, since to your subconscious, it will just become who you are.

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.

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.