Product Description: Filled with helpful resources and illuminating case studies, Healing Addiction provides you with an integrative guide to understanding and treating addiction that brings together the latest neuroscience, pharmacology, social understanding, and psychological research. It is a key resource for professionals in the addiction community, for social scholars and policymakers, and for the interested general reader.
Educational and Motivating This book has been a great guide for my own understanding, as the child of a substance dependant father, of how the many forms of addiction present themselves. From this text I received excellent descriptions of the short and long term affects of addiction and patient cases to match. Families that have members that struggle with addiction would benefit from incorporating this manual into their recovery plan. From it we gain insight based upon clinical evidence and a plan for overcoming the multiple forms of addiction. There are many feel good books in publication but there are few like this one that are feel good, humbling, educational, guiding and define a path by which the patient and family should follow to recovery.
Comprehensive, Engaging, & Compassionate This is the most comprehensive work on addiction and treatment modalities I have found. The authors are able to define the disease concept, multi-modality treatment, and the impact on society, without the "feel" of a textbook. Peter Martin's brilliance is made evident in this work. I am glad he decided to share his knowledge and insight in this manner. This book is a tool that should be required reading for anyone in the field of addiction treatment.
Healing Addiction: An Integrated Pharmacopsychosocial Approach to Treatment: This is power packed! This is an incredibly comprehensive book that is easy to read and understand; it provides an outstanding resource that integrates multiple approaches to addiction and is equally as helpful to the general reader as to the addiction professional. It is a must have book for anyone who deals with family, friends, or patients with addiction problems.
Healing Addiction: from brain chemistry to recovery meetings! In this comprehensive yet easily read paperback volume, Dr. Peter Martin and colleagues distill the essential scientific theories of addiction psychiatry with the 70+ year old spiritual recovery movement. Their book answers questions about compulsive alcohol, drug, sex, gambling and food problems for addicts, their loved ones, and the counselors, ministers, physicians and psychiatrists who are trying to understand and change behaviors. The result is an up-to-date treatment manual for addiction disorders. It will be a valuable guide for sufferers and a useful resource for all professionals who wish to help!
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