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7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love Paperback – July 27, 2004
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If you or a loved one are struggling with addiction but do not find that twelve-step or other treatment programs work for you, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction can help. Internationally recognized expert Dr. Stanton Peele presents a program for addiction recovery based on research and clinical study and grounded in science. His program utilizes proven methods that people actually use to overcome addiction, with or without treatment.
7 Tools to Beat Addiction offers in-depth, interactive exercises that show you how to outgrow destructive habits by putting together the building blocks for a balanced, fulfilling, responsible life. Dr. Peele’s approach is founded on the following tools:
• Values
• Motivation
• Rewards
• Resources
• Support
• Maturity
• Higher Goals
This no-nonsense guide will put you in charge of your own recovery.
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- Publication dateJuly 27, 2004
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Whether you are battling drugs, nicotine, alcohol, food, shopping, sex, or gambling, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction is a hands-on, practical guide to overcoming addiction of any kind. If you or a loved one are struggling with addiction but do not find that twelve-step or other treatment programs work for you, this book can help.
In , internationally recognized expert Dr. Stanton Peele presents a program for addiction recovery based on research and clinical study and grounded in science. His program utilizes proven methods that people actually use to overcome addiction, with or without treatment. 7 Tools to Beat Addiction offers in-depth, interactive exercises that show you how to outgrow destructive habits by putting together the building blocks for a balanced, fulfilling, responsible life. Dr. Peele s approach is founded on the following tools:
Values
Motivation
Rewards
Resources
Support
Maturity
Higher Goals
This no-nonsense guide will put you in charge of your own recovery.
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Whether you are battling drugs, nicotine, alcohol, food, shopping, sex, or gambling, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction is a hands-on, practical guide to overcoming addiction of any kind. If you or a loved one are struggling with addiction but do not find that twelve-step or other treatment programs work for you, this book can help.
In , internationally recognized expert Dr. Stanton Peele presents a program for addiction recovery based on research and clinical study and grounded in science. His program utilizes proven methods that people actually use to overcome addiction, with or without treatment. 7 Tools to Beat Addiction offers in-depth, interactive exercises that show you how to outgrow destructive habits by putting together the building blocks for a balanced, fulfilling, responsible life. Dr. Peele’s approach is founded on the following tools:
•Values
•Motivation
•Rewards
•Resources
•Support
•Maturity
•Higher Goals
This no-nonsense guide will put you in charge of your own recovery.
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Values: Building on Your Values Foundation
Values play a critical role in addiction—and your values are likely to be the key to your escaping addiction. This is a matter of both considering what your values are and sometimes refocusing on dormant values or even developing new ones. When you can truly experience how a habit is damaging what is most important to you, the steps out of your destructive habit often fall readily into place.
While you can utilize any of a wide range of values in your fight against addiction—and to a certain extent you can go with whatever works for you—it is not true that all values are equally useful in this fight. Some values even support continued bad habits and compulsions.
In this chapter we will examine values that are the most antiaddictive and that support your independence, and how you can use your own values as a tool to fight addiction. Exercises geared toward identifying and utilizing your values are provided at the end of the chapter.
What Are Values? Do They Really Matter?
Your values are your beliefs that some things are right and good and others wrong and bad, that some things are more important than others, and that one way of doing things is better than another. Values are usually deeply held—they come from your earliest learning and background. Values reflect what your parents taught you, what you learned in school and religious institutions, and what the social and cultural groups you belong to hold to be true and right.
It is impossible to maintain that values don't matter in addiction or its cure. The best predictor of whether college students will have an alcohol problem is their attitudes toward drinking—that is, whether it's okay, even good, to binge.1 On the other hand, what makes some people join AA and quit drinking? It is because they have decided their drinking is wrong, even beyond its negative health impact for them. For people in the United States who have a drinking problem—or are told by others that they have one—treatment consists mainly of convincing them that their drinking is bad and harmful, and that they should quit.
Values are important to all addictions, and not just addictive drinking and drug taking. If you compulsively gamble, shop, or have affairs, then your values are on display. Many people feel good and get a boost to their self-esteem from shopping. However, most of these people don't consistently spend beyond their limits. They refrain from overspending because they don't think it's right. They recognize that overspending would keep them from upholding other important values, like paying their debts or providing for their children, and so they curtail their expenditures.
The same principle applies to pursuing sexual opportunities to the exclusion of productive activity. Most people enjoy sex, but they avoid compulsive or random sex because they feel it's wrong. If you engage in indiscriminate sex, then you are signaling either that you see little wrong in it or that the other values in your life are less important than the good feelings you derive from such sex. If you are willing to accept this picture of your values, then so be it. If, on the other hand, you have other values that run against compulsive sexual activity, eating, or shopping, then these values can serve as an important tool with which to root out your addiction.
Many people find that alcohol is tremendously relaxing, sexually exhilarating, or provides some other powerful, welcome feeling—but they do not become alcoholics. They simply refuse to go there. Have you ever heard someone say, "I know that when I have more than one drink, I throw all caution to the wind"? Most people who react so violently to alcohol say, "That's why I limit myself to a single drink" or "That's why I don't drink." But alcoholics regularly override this realization about their reactions to alcohol and continue to drink. Some people who are tense by nature find that smoking is one way to relax. Yet many such people still refuse to smoke. Many simply rule it out of their lives for any of a variety of reasons—health, appearance, or their general feeling that it's bad.
Values do not simply dictate whether you do or don't try a drink, a cigarette, or a drug. They also influence whether you continue to indulge in an activity or substance and how much you will allow your indulgence to affect your life before you limit or quit your involvement. Finally, at a deeper level, values determine how intensely and how irreversibly you become addicted. They also play a major role in whether or not you choose to quit after your become addicted.
Constructive Involvements
Some values directly contradict addictions. If you have these values, they help you to fight addiction. And if you don't, developing such values is potentially a critical therapeutic tool. (This occurs through involvement and success in positive activities, which I describe in later chapters.)
Values can be expressed by statements about what you think is right and wrong, or about your preferences, such as "I value our relationship," "I value my health," "I believe in hard work," "Nothing is more important to me than my children," or "It is embarrassing to be out of control of yourself." All of these values oppose addiction. Other values, or an absence of values, can reinforce addiction. For example, if you don't think that it's wrong to be intoxicated or high, if it's not important to you to fulfill your obligations to other people, or if you don't care whether you succeed at work, then you are more likely to sustain an addiction. The exercises at the end of this chapter will give you a chance to explore how your values contribute to or oppose addictive involvements.
VALUING THESE THINGS HELPS COMBAT ADDICTION
*ACHIEVEMENT—accomplishing constructive and socially valued goals, such as participating in athletics, running for office, getting an education, succeeding at work, or providing for your family
*Consciousness—being alert, awake, and aware of your surroundings; using your mind to make sense out of your life and experience
*Activity—being energetic in daily life and engaged in the world around you
*Health—eating well, exercising, getting health care, and choosing an overall healthy lifestyle
*Responsibility—fulfilling your commitments as well as doing what the law obliges you to do
*Self-respect—caring for and about yourself and, by extension, all people
*Community—being involved in the communities of which you are part (your town, school, work organization, religious group, neighborhood, political party) and contributing to the welfare of these groups—and the larger world
How Do Values Fight Addiction?
To say that your values influence your desire and ability to fight addiction is to say that you act in line with what you believe in and what you care about. Such values can be remarkably potent. For example, I heard a woman say, "I used to smoke, and sometimes I think of going back to it. However, now that I have small children, I would sooner cut my fingers off with a kitchen knife then start smoking again." Even if this woman fell to temptation and smoked one cigarette, it is highly unlikely that she would relapse entirely.
In her memoir, Room to Grow, actress Tracey Gold described her life-threatening anorexia. When she appeared on the Today show to discuss the book, host Matt Lauer asked her the standard disease question: Was she over the disease, or was it still with her? "It's my Achilles' heel," she said, "but I have two small children, and I could never fall all the way back."
Observing this new sense of identity and resolve in new parents should make you think, quite sensibly, "This person couldn't be an alcoholic or a drug addict; she cares too much about herself and her family." But in the alcoholism and addiction field, we are told that if we believe these people have really become much more resistant to addiction, we are deluding ourselves. Likewise, when you observe some rock star, actress, or athlete enter a drug or alcohol treatment center, you are discouraged from thinking that you could never let yourself go wrong like that. It is always worth maintaining your empathy and humility. At the same time, it is also valuable to appreciate that you wouldn't put yourself in a position like that, not when you have kids, satisfying work, and basic self-respect.
As a society, and as individuals, we need to grasp that there is no more important facilitator or antidote to addiction than our values. For example, people who value clear thinking will shy away from regular intoxication. Likewise, a responsible person highly concerned for his family's well-being would not allow himself to shop or gamble away his family's money. People who are focused on their health will be reluctant, or refuse, to drink excessively or to take drugs.
A prime example of a person whose values helped him to overcome an addiction is my uncle Ozzie. As you will remember from the introduction, Ozzie quit smoking forever based on what seemed like a chance statement by a coworker that Ozzie was "a sucker for the tobacco companies." We are now prepared to answer the question of why Uncle Ozzie quit.
Remember that Ozzie was a committed union activist. The most important value governing Ozzie's life was the desire to maintain his integrity and independence from his employer, who symbolized for Ozzie the entire capitalist system. As a shop steward, he regularly demonstrated the strength of his convictions by pressing worker complaints and defending fellow union members, even though he felt he was punished by being sent out on service calls to the worst neighborhoods.
Intentionally or not, Ozzie's coworker's statement that he was a sucker for the tobacco companies hit Ozzie in his value solar plexus. This colleague made Ozzie see a connection between his anticorporate values and his smoking, producing the revelation that smoking ran counter to his overwhelming desire to be free from company control. When Ozzie realized that smoking compromised the most important element in his self-definition . . . well in that moment smoking didn't stand a chance. After finishing the last pack he purchased, Ozzie never smoked again.
Where Do Antiaddiction Values Come From?
Children learn values from the people around them. Most importantly, they learn values from their parents or the people who raise them. But people also learn many values from their peers and the groups that they belong to. The process by which people learn values is called "social learning." And these values sometimes have a remarkable impact on people's lives—particularly when it comes to alcohol, drugs, and addiction.
Research regularly demonstrates the power of shared values in relation to alcohol. In the 1950s a sociologist noted that he had never seen anyone drunk in New York's Chinatown. Intrigued, he undertook a study of this community.2 The sociologist perused the arrest records in the local precinct between the years 1933 and 1949. He discovered that 15,515 arrests had been recorded in Chinatown, but not one of these arrests included an observation of drunkenness. After further examining drinking styles, attitudes, and social occasions in Chinatown, the sociologist, Milton Barnett, wrote:
The children drank, and they soon learned a set of attitudes that attended the practice. While drinking was socially sanctioned, becoming drunk was not. The individual who lost control of himself under the influence of liquor was ridiculed and, if he persisted in his defection, ostracized. His lack of continued moderation was regarded not only as a personal shortcoming, but as a deficiency of the family as a whole.3
Pretty powerful stuff! In this day and age, social shaming might seem outdated, ludicrous, even psychologically damaging. Nonetheless, within Chinese culture—a very large group worldwide—it has been a very effective technique for training children.
Few other communities are as unified in their values as Chinatown was in the 1950s. However, ethnic and religious groups still convey strong values about substance use and abuse.
One group long noted for its distinctive drinking style is the Jews. In 2000 an exhibit entitled "Drink and Be Merry: Wine and Beer in Ancient Times" came to the Jewish Museum of New York. The exhibit pointed out that Jews had, since antiquity, developed a ritualistic, moderate approach to alcohol consumption that contrasted with the periodic, orgiastic use of alcohol by neighboring tribes.
When the claim is made that Jews have historically been moderate drinkers, objections are always raised that this is no longer true. For example, whenever I mention this fact to an AA member in Los Angeles or New York, the person starts listing Jewish alcoholics he or she knows who attend their AA group.
Two upstate New York researchers, Barry Glassner and Bruce Berg, heard the same claims—and believed them. Both reported that they personally knew an alcoholic Jew who hid his drinking. Both had read accounts that traditionally low Jewish alcoholism rates were rising. They consulted with experts, one of whom claimed that the Jewish alcoholism rate was growing alarmingly.
However, after conducting intensive interviews designed to elicit hidden alcohol problems, the researchers failed to uncover a single Jewish alcohol abuser among a random sample of Jewish respondents.4 Not one respondent they questioned had been intoxicated more than a few times. Only a quarter of the sample had even heard rumors of Jews with drinking problems—generally stories about distant relatives. The accuracy of these self-reports, ironically, was upheld by the very alcoholism expert who had issued an alarm on Jewish alcoholism to the investigators. The so-called expert on Jewish alcoholism reported that in a city of about ten thousand Jews, he knew of five Jewish alcoholics. Even this microscopic number was questioned by the other experts the researchers consulted, who said they knew at most of one or two Jews with a drinking problem.
All in all, the Jews and the Chinese are striking examples of how groups around the world determine behavior toward powerful intoxicants such as alcohol.5 And although it may be true that these groups do not hold sway over their members as they did in earlier decades in America, they nonetheless demonstrate how powerful, enduring, and decisive socialization by family, religious, and cultural groups can be in insulating people throughout their lives against addiction.
How do these groups teach the value of moderation? Glassner and Berg identified four factors or techniques that enabled Jews to avoid drinking problems (and which in fact closely resemble what we saw of Chinese American techniques):
1.Learning moderate drinking in childhood. Jews in the study usually had their first drink as children, "in the home as a part of religious ceremonies (Jewish tradition includes wine drinking at weekly Sabbath ceremonies and holidays, notably Passover) . . . only about 5% of the sample recalled their first drinks as (occurring) outside the family and later than childhood."
2.Insulation by peers. As adults they associated almost exclusively with moderate drinkers, often other Jews. When they observed others drinking badly, they rejected those people. As one subject in the study said: "This one guy was making a real ass of himself. He'd had too much to drink and it made everyone uncomfortable. I guess our friends just are not heavy drinkers. . . . I think he eventually got the message, because he was one of the first to leave."
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 20057 Tools to Beat Addiction is an excellent resource for those addicted to alcohol or other substances and want to enrich their lives while reducing or eliminating their alcohol intake.
7 Tools is much like The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, also by Peele. 7 Tools is a bit of a condensed version of the aforementioned Truth About Addiction. Nevertheless, if you read both books, you will gain information from both books. If you are feeling as if you are suffering and might not be able to focus on the more scholarly Truth About Addiction, then definitely pick up this book. You will be educated about the addiction process, about the pseudo-science that has pushed the disease model, and you will be given the tools you need to moderate your drinking or quit your drinking altogether.
Stanton Peele's research isn't based on feeling, like the AA model of alcoholism-as-a-disease. It's based on numerous studies by many different scientists done over the past several decades that have drawn the same conclusion OVER and OVER again. And, the conclusion is that it's NOT a disease-- despite the AMA and despite AA and despite every single organization that says it is. The proof lies in this point-- that there hasn't been even ONE successful study that has proven otherwise-- even when the study was created to PROVE that alcohol dependence was a disease.
AA ADMITS in it's own data that only 5% of AA members remain alcohol abstinent. The data that has been proven over and over again is that this number is LESS than those that quit drinking without AA. Additionally, a recent Harvard University Study stated that 80% of those that have quit drinking did it on their own. This goes against the disease model and AA approach. Many can moderate their drinking successfully or quit successfully altogether. This goes against the disease model and AA approach, too. Stanton Peele's book shows us the studies and data that support that once addicted DOES NOT MEAN ALWAYS ADDICTED. Unless, of course, one has bought into the AA philosophy and has now accepted that they are permanently sick and out of control. This is the crux of this argument. Studies have shown that those that have bought into this philosophy wind up having a lower self-image than those that have not, and they wind up believing they are permanently sick and completely unable to manage their lives-- thereby buying into the belief that they are "out of control". The focus is never about getting better in AA (I know they say otherwise)-- the focus is on STAYING 'sick', STAYING in AA, and STAYING permanently in a "RECOVERY" state. The focus, truthfully, is in keeping old folkwisdom alive even though every bit of evidence shows us that there are proven better ways. To add insult to injury, anyone who doubts this model is accused of being in denial, and everyone who remains alcohol abstinent without AA is accused of being a dry drunk (not "sober" according to AAspeak. Hello? Isn't this supposed to be a quit-drinking program?
The problem AAers have is that this proof (that is shown so coherently here) completely pulls their chairs out from underneath them. I understand this, too. If everything I believed was taken away from me and proven to be false, it would certainly undermine my own confidence in my ability to make decisions. And, so far, although the twelve-step "treatment" (although why we continue to call it treatment when it hasn't successfully treated anything) philosophy has continued to permeate our culture, there is absolutely no evidence at all to suggest that it is beneficial. On the contrary. The evidence proves it hasn't been and that there are better ways that have been proven to work (for instance, Community Resource and Family Training, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy, as well as other approaches) scientifically.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2008I've binge eaten for decades. This addiction has been an albatross around my neck all my adult life. I quit a 2-pack-a-day smoking habit 25 years ago and quitting smoking was nothing compared to trying to quit binge eating. Bingeing has kept me from living my life fully and has comprised my health. I've spent much of my life feeling like a member of the 'living dead.' I've tried every type of therapy, diet, you-name-it, including Overeaters Anonymous to stop this self-destructive behavior.
I loved the camaraderie of OA and being around people who really got how difficult it is to stop bingeing. It's not a matter of 'just stop eating so much.' I didn't care for the 'powerless' part of OA or the idea that eating disorders are a 'disease.' Some people I met there go to meetings every single day. To me, that felt like substituting one type of imprisonment for another. Besides, many of the people I met at OA were still bingeing regularly and had experienced little success in beating their addictions. I stopped going.
I would consider going there again to speak with others who understand what it means to have an eating disorder, but not because I have any faith in their methods. I'm a spiritual person with a strong faith in God but the OA message did not resonate with me. 'Hand my disease over to my higher power? Make amends for all the wrongs I've committed?' Why should I make amends? I know I'm not perfect, but neither is any other human being on the planet. I see no sense in spending time focusing on everything I've done wrong in my life. I have always tried to behave in an ethical and loving way toward my fellow man. I've fallen short, but I'ved tried to learn from my mistakes and I've done my best.
I have not binged every single day of my life and have gone a maximum of four months without bingeing, so how could it be a disease? A diabetic can't say 'well today, I'm not going to be diabetic.' Now that's a disease, an honest-to-God medical condition. If I can eat normally even for a single day, I can choose to do it again - and again.
I've been on an especially long, tough bender for several months, so I sought out some ideas to help me stop. I love this book. It reminded me of what I knew before and forgot - that it's up to me to stop bingeing. No support group, therapist, family member, etc. can stop me as I'm poised to start wolfing food down. It's up to me at that moment to say 'no' to the urge. To be reminded of how infantile and childish it is to give into my self-destructive urges has shaken me out of my addiction rut. This book was a gentle slap in the face. It has re-awoken me to the reality that I have a choice to binge or not binge. It's up to me. That makes me feel empowered.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2014The Reviews are accurate. My roommate actually got the book and although it is not a "read in a sitting book", it is a thoughtful book that considers all view points with accurate information. The more detailed reviews (positive ones) are accurate. I researched and compared this book to other in its field and this one by far had the best reviews from knowledgeable professionals and laymen both. The text does not involved opinionated viewpoints as such, but accurate information from the field.
Additionally, it provides many categories in each chapter which makes it easier to read, to follow and gives one the desire to feel a sense of accomplishment as the reading goes. We also bought "The Mindfullness workbook for addiction" to apply some of the theories (these books are not by the same author) and have something that would allow for exercizes to be completed.
My roommate has not finished either book and has not done alot of work in them yet--(she has to want it more than I do) but I did the research, she likes them and so do I. Just for a little background for perspective, I have a BLS in Humanities, am working on finishing my MA and have worked with addicts, college students and the street-homeless. I feel that this book is a good reference and even better when utilized with a workbook for addiction on mindfulness--especially if the "12-Step Program" might not be best practice for you or your loved one.
I wish you peace in your journey to wellness for you or your loved one and I hope this helped a little bit.
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- Vit V.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on understanding addictions!
Recently read: 7 Tools To Beat Addiction by Stanton Peele
A very intriguing book with regards to its views on addictions in general which I would greatly recommend to all healthcare professionals working with addicts and not only to addicts alone.
This book can be used to achieve greater understanding to any addiction, regardless whether this is food, drink, drugs, sex, gambling, porn, or indeed any other addictive habit that people (ab)use excessively.
In a way, this book promotes introspective approach towards addictions, in that the problem is within the individual and not with the substance itself. The seven tools are thus different aspects of addict's life that may help the person to get rid of their addiction by focusing on the following 7:
Values
Motivation
Rewards
Resources
Support
Maturity
Higher Goals
While I would enjoy expanding more on each of these 7 topics, it is far better understood by reading the book.
Although the book itself is very well written, with lots of examples and statistical data supporting author's statements, it still takes some time to mindfully work your way through.
If I would have to take only one lesson from the book, would be the view of addiction as being a selfish way to focus on your own needs, rather than other people's. The author says that the only way to truly live a life which is focused towards helping and empowering others is by living addiction free.
A very intriguing book for anyone interested in the subject. Highly recommended!
- Drew StenwayReviewed in Canada on September 5, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing Addiction from another perspective
Still reading but finding it to be a good book on addiction, and what it takes to get at the root of why and how to overcome... Dealing with daughter who was - is addicted and trying to figure things out with her. This book and 2 others by same author, Recovery and The truth about addiction and recovery are very helpful seeing things from a different perspective on addiction. Not only patterns but how to see them and overcome them at what is at the root of all addictions.
- Schuyler Dunn-FlanaganReviewed in Canada on December 22, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and useful
Have not finished but so far it is a very practical approach, includes exercises and strategies to help address the key issues of addiction.
- Deekay - Kindle CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes total sense to me,
This book makes total sense to me, the general premise is treat the person and their circumstances an dnot just the addiction and allow the person take power over the addiction and not rely on some other agency