Vicodin, Oxycontin, and Other Pain Relievers (Junior Drug Awareness)
by Amy E. Breguet
Modern medicine provides more help than ever before for people suffering from severe or chronic pain. In recent years, the marketing, prescription, and use of opioid painkillers has skyrocketed. While providing much-needed relief to millions, these narcotics have also become the most problematic prescription medications in the country, found at the center of historical numbers of addiction and abuse cases, medical emergencies, and crime waves. ""Vicodin, OxyContin, and Other Pain Relievers"" giv...
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Suspiria De Profundis
by Thomas de Quincey
Seth Our Journey through Addiction, Heartbreak, and Hope
by Karin Murphy
We're only human, and humans make mistakes. This pamphlet helps us to understand the benefit of admitting when we are wrong so that we don't start hiding behind secrets that could lead to a relapse. We're only human, and humans make mistakes. This pamphlet helps us to understand the benefit of admitting when we are wrong so that we don't start hiding behind secrets that could lead to a relapse.
Cultures and Materialities of Imagination (Innovations in Qualitative Research)
by Stephan S. Sieland
In our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of e...
Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue, offering platitudes instead of plans, are asking themselves: Where is the solution? Where is the hope? Where's the outrage? Enter Ryan Hampton, a young man who has made addiction reform his life's mission. Through his wildly successful organisation Facing Addiction, Hampton has quickly emerged as the de facto thought leader of the national recovery movement. As a recovering addict himself, he unde...
We all need tools to help us fully embrace the new way of life made possible through recovery. Truly break the addiction cycle by uncovering the reasons for former dependencies and behaviors, discovering new perspectives, reshaping your sense of masculinity, and building the coping skills that support real physical and emotional sobriety. Cornerstones provide the foundation for growth and strength. This collection of daily readings was designed specifically for men who are new to recovery or ar...
This is an updated account of new developments in sports nutrition for teachers, coaches, officials and competitors taking into account new developments. It contains information on digestion, energy systems and exercise metabolism and looks at food supplementation, vitamin therapy and special diets. As well as reviewing drug abuse in sport it also gives advice on ergogenic aids and training methods used by top class performers.
Teenage Depression and Suicide (Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs S.)
by John Chiles
Addicts' Anecdotes is a community book filled with personal stories of alcohol and drug addiction, and the positive journeys of recovery each writer is on. This community book was created by a group from the Cranstoun Isle of Wight's DnR Room, a music-based recovery charity.