While 5 months pregnant, clinical psychologist Dr. Nicole Anders received a phone call from her father that would shatter her heart and bring her to her knees. “He’s not in pain anymore,” her father said, to the sounds of her sobbing in disbelief. Nicole’s younger brother Cody had accidentally overdosed, taking his last breath earlier that morning. In her profession, Dr. Anders specializes in trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), working with combat Veterans and sexual ass...
Focusing on contemporary issues such as drug use and AIDS, drug testing and law-enforcement concerns, this text has strong historical and sociological foundations to put the material into perspective for students. Short, concise chapters allow instructors flexibility in dividing the material into reading assignments. There is coverage of all current treatments, allowing students to understand the relationship between the problem and the treatment, and easy-to-follow material on the physiological...
The popular drug of choice in the 1980s and '90s, cocaine is an illegal drug that can prove dangerous - even deadly - for users, especially in its impure form, crack. Yet, pure cocaine has been used as an energy booster and pain reliever for thousands of years. ""Cocaine and Crack"" examines the global history, chemistry, industry, and control of cocaine in the United States.
After his idyllic childhood on the Bournemouth coast was shattered by child sexual abuse and drug dependence, Paul saw no other way to escape the pressures of life and threw himself out of a third-storey window when he was 17 years old. Having survived the ordeal and endured more years of anguish, Paul spent the next few years trying to pick himself up after a serious mental breakdown. He spent his twenties working hard and playing hard, often finding himself under the care of mental health p...
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Suspiria De Profundis
by Thomas de Quincey
When I first walked into a self help group many years ago I had absolutely no idea that I was lonely and afraid, I just knew something was wrong. I loved my husband so I couldn't understand why things could get so horribly out of hand and I would end up battered and bruised and tragically miserable. Rock bottom was something I was to hear that made sense, I had reached that place of desolation and, as hard as it was to admit, I needed help. Norma Denner's powerful and honest book gives hope to a...
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book
by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.