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Overcoming Addiction: A Common Sense Approach
OVERCOMING ADDICTION is a valuable resource about the complex nature of addiction, the ease with which people become addicted, and the destruction in the lives of addicts and their families. The author addresses the subject with sensitivity and clarity. This book is a good resource for the layperson as well as professional.Answers the question—what is addiction?Covers the signs and symptoms of addiction.Outlines the alternatives for overcoming addiction, both for the addict and the people who love them.
112 pages, Paperback
First published February 7, 2000
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June 19, 2010
Hardiman is a great writer. This book is very structure. It's the essence of a college psychology textbook. Here are the cliff notes from this amazing read.
Four main components to any addiction: compulsion, dependence, regularity, and destructiveness.
Four main parts of addiction: nature of the driving forces that produce addiction; the psychological states of the addicted person; the variety of addictive substances or behaviors; and the process by which the recovery occurs.
Key defense mechanisms: denial, rationalization, minimization, projection, and displacement.
Recognizable stages (opiate addiction): adaptive stage, tolerance, dependency, and chronic stage.
Two broad areas of addiction: chemical addiction and addictive behaviors.
Three different types of eating disorder: compulsive overeating, bulimia, and anorexia nervosa. (Food is primarily used as a mood-altering substance - a drug rather than a nutritional requirement.)
Amazing, AMAZING read. Highly recommended.
Four main components to any addiction: compulsion, dependence, regularity, and destructiveness.
Four main parts of addiction: nature of the driving forces that produce addiction; the psychological states of the addicted person; the variety of addictive substances or behaviors; and the process by which the recovery occurs.
Key defense mechanisms: denial, rationalization, minimization, projection, and displacement.
Recognizable stages (opiate addiction): adaptive stage, tolerance, dependency, and chronic stage.
Two broad areas of addiction: chemical addiction and addictive behaviors.
Three different types of eating disorder: compulsive overeating, bulimia, and anorexia nervosa. (Food is primarily used as a mood-altering substance - a drug rather than a nutritional requirement.)
Amazing, AMAZING read. Highly recommended.
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March 29, 2025
I read this a sa research for a new program for alcoholics. I fully expect AA to be useless in 12-16 years and defunct in 22-25.
The current atmospehere of caving to current ideologies and ignoring the stability of sticking with 60++ year old traditions will be the downfall.
They can save themselves But I am going to look to build something with true reliance on God as AA was created.
We will see and I hope I am wrong but...Just IN Case!!
The current atmospehere of caving to current ideologies and ignoring the stability of sticking with 60++ year old traditions will be the downfall.
They can save themselves But I am going to look to build something with true reliance on God as AA was created.
We will see and I hope I am wrong but...Just IN Case!!
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