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Author Volpicelli, Joseph.

Title Recovery options : the complete guide / Joseph Volpicelli, Maia Szalavitz
Published New York ; Chichester : Wiley, [2000]
©2000

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Description xvi, 303 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: The Problem And The Search For Solutions. -- Understanding Problems with Alcohol and Other Drugs. -- Drugs 101. -- What Causes Addiction? -- Addiction Treatment Philosophies. -- What Works, What Doesn't. -- For Families: Stages of Change and Ways to Make a Difference. -- Overcoming Barriers to Recovery. -- How to Choose Treatment. -- The Options. -- BRENDA: The Penn Paradigm. -- Getting Off: Medications to Help You Quit. -- Medications to Reduce Craving and Relapse. -- Twelve-Step Programs. -- Other Self-help Groups. -- The Minnesota Model. -- Therapeutic Communities. -- Moderate-Drinking Approaches. -- Harm Reduction. -- Methadone. -- Alternative Treatments. -- Teen Treatment. -- Life After Treatment. -- Relapse and Relapse Prevention. -- Emotional and Psychological Problems in Recovery. -- A New Life: Maintaining Recovery in the Long Run. -- Appendix. -- Notes. -- Index
Summary 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
Notes "Published simultaneously in Canada."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Alcoholism.
Alcoholism -- Treatment.
Alcohol-Related Disorders -- therapy.
Author Szalavitz, Maia.
LC no. 99054733
ISBN 047134575X paperback