Recovery Options: The Complete Guide

[Description from the publisher]

In Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D., an award-winning addiction research pioneer, and Maia Szalavitz, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and former addict, provide frank and impartial appraisals of all the major treatment options, including:

Alcoholics Anonymous
Moderate drinking programs
Alternative treatments
Therapeutic communities
Cognitive therapies
Other 12-step programs
Medications
Methadone
Harm reduction
How families can help

In Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, you will learn what addiction is- and what it isn't. You will examine both the mechanism of addiction and how you can make the best treatment choices . . . why some people are particularly prone to substance problems . . . and the genetic and learning mechanisms that help create these conditions. You'll explore the various types of treatment and the ideas on which they are based, and find out how effective each treatment is--and which ones are not effective. Finally, you'll find supportive information on staying clean and sober, preventing relapse, and minimizing damage caused by slips that may occur.

Authors: Joseph Volpicelli, Maia Szalavitz.

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Publication Year: 2000