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Addiction & addiction recoverybooks

Below are the best books we could find on Addiction and addiction recovery.

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The Addicted Brain: How to Break Free

Dr. Hyla Cass has discovered that correcting brain chemistry imbalances that trigger addictive behaviors will often eliminate the addiction.

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Hyla Cass
2014
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Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop

The disturbing connection between well-meaning physicians and the prescription drug epidemic. Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Anna Lembke
2016
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The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery

In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them.

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Thad Ziolkowski
2024
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Unspoken Legacy: Addressing the Impact of Trauma and Addiction within the Family

A far-ranging examination of how the effects of addiction and trauma in the family can reverberate for generations. Trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child.

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Claudia Black
2024
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Nowhere to Run: Discovering Your True Self in the Midst of an Addiction

Nowhere to Run is a daring memoir illustrating the wonderful highs of Wisconsin Badger football coupled with the dreadful depths of addiction. This classic tale of man’s internal struggle leads Montee Ball down a path where he is met with an undeniable and heartbreaking truth.

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Montee Ball
2021
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Now What?: An Insider’s Guide to Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question “Now what?” for addicts and their loved ones along every step of their journey through contemplation, intervention, treatment, and recovery.

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William Cope Moyers
2012
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Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions

With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery.

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Russell Brand
2024
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Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions that Steal Your Life

The brain plays a central role in your vulnerability to addiction and your ability to recover. Brain dysfunction is the number-one reason why people fall victim to addiction, why they can't break the chains of addiction, and why they relapse.

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Daniel G. Amen, David E. Smith
2010
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and showing how seeing the condition this way can untangle current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy.

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Maia Szalavitz
2017
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and those impacted by it.

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Gabor Maté, Peter A. Levine (foreword)
2010
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