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The product of more than 20 years of research, Slaying the Dragon is the remarkable story of America’s personal and institutional responses to alcoholism and other addiction… Author William White provides a sweeping and engaging history of one of America’s most enduring problems and the profession that was born to respond to it [Chestnut Health Systems, USA]
Overall, the strongest, most cost-effective strategies include taxation that increases prices, restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol, drink-driving countermeasures, brief interventions with at risk drinkers and treatment of drinkers with alcohol dependence [Addiction Abstract, UK]
Our book of the month for March is Chasing Dragons by Kyle Grayson. The book is listed in our extensive library of relevant and interesting titles and as ever we are grateful to our book reviewer David Hart who has written the following [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
The authors present a well-developed model of alcoholism recovery, refined through their many years of clinical experience with alcoholic families and adult children of alcoholics, and they illustrate its implications for therapeutic strategies with a rich variety of case histories [Amazon, UK]
Their task was to survive in a world that would never again be the same, and they did survive and even triumph, incorporating Jonathan into their lives not as a lost son, but as a living spirit who is with them i a new way [Amazon, USA]
A supportive, helpful, practical book for family members of recovering addicts [Amazon, UK]
A father’s journey through his son’s addiction [Amazon, UK]
The horror of addiction… the miracle of survival [Amazon, UK]
‘This book left me in tears. Nothing in my time as lead Judge for the West London Dedicated Drugs Court has brought home so clearly the hell addicts and their families go through, It should be compulsory reading… [Amazon, UK]
This book in based on a way of working at Option 2 in Cardiff that won the Community Care Award for Child Protection in 2001. Author Mark Hamer is a founding member of the award winning team and a practising Social Worker [Russell House Publishing Ltd, UK]
Robert and Linda Waxler tell the story of the long painful loss of their son as he became addicted to the heroin that finally killed him [Beautifully and powerfully written, highly recommended to those people who have lost a child to drugs – Ed]
In this Report, the aim has been to draw on the available evidence to offer some possible paths forward to a more realistic and effective global regime for cannabis control [The Beckley Foundation, UK]
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that, across all nations, 160 million people used cannabis in the course of 2005, 4% of the global adult populations – far more than the number that used any other illicit drug, though far less than the number that consumed alcohol or tobacco [The Beckley Foundation, UK]
by Jon Kabat-Zinn: Awakens us to the unique beauty of each present moment and shows how the simple meditation technique of ‘mindfulness’ can enable us to be truly in touch with where we already are [Amazon, UK]
How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation [Amazon, UK]
by Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams and John D. Teasdale: Written in a highly readable, accessible style, the book describes the theoretical basis for the approach and details each of the structured group sessions [Amazon, UK]
By Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn: A proven program from leading scientists, including a CD of guided meditations [Amazon, UK]
A History of Drugs details the history of the relationship between drugs and freedom over the last two hundred years, disturbing and unravelling the ‘naturalness’ of our contemporary understandings of the ‘drug question’ [Routledge, UK]
by Robert Granfield and William Cloud: Exploring stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of substance use without professional help, this book examines reasons for avoiding treatment, strategies employed to break away from dependency and identifying candidates for this approach [Amazon, UK]
Demonstrates the importance of listening to what people diagnosed with schizophrenia themselves have to say about their struggle, and shows the dramatic effect that this approach can have on clinical practice and social policy [Amazon, UK]
