| Description |
430 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. From alcoholism to shopping addiction: addition is not a disease : Why it doesn't make sense to call addiction a "disease" ; Are people born alcoholics? ; Which is the most addictive drug of all? ; Smoking: the toughest habit to lick? ; Obesity: are people biologically programmed to be fat? ; Addictions to gambling, shopping, and exercise: how we evade moral responsibility ; Love, sex, and codependence: overcoming trauma -- II. The life process program: skills for taking control of your life : The life process program ; Quitting as life process: the case of Paula ; Are you an addict? Assessing addiction in the life process program ; Assessing your values: knowing what is important to you ; Assessing your resources: what do you have that you can count on? ; I'm not the person I want to be: how people carry out plans to change ; Changing the behavior: that obscure object of desire ; Life skills: if you don't have them, get them -- III. Changing communities, changing lives : Integrating change into your life: groups and your social world ; Kids have to be made into addicts: you can prevent addiction ; Where the solutions really lie: re-establishing communal ties ; A road map: where we've been and where you need to go -- Appendix: What the JAMA study on genes and alcoholism tells us |
| Notes |
"A Fireside book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-417) and index |
| Subject |
Compulsive behavior.
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Habit breaking.
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Health and Wellbeing Collection
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Rehabilitation.
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Compulsive Behavior.
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Gambling.
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Love.
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Obesity.
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Prevention and Control
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Rehabilitation.
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Smoking.
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Substance-Related Disorders.
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Therapeutics.
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Behavior, Addictive.
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Self Care.
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Social Adjustment.
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Substance-Related Disorders -- epidemiology.
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Substance-Related Disorders -- rehabilitation.
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United States -- epidemiology. |
| Author |
Arnold, Mary, 1951-
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Brodsky, Archie.
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| LC no. |
90027678 |
| ISBN |
067166901X |
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