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Quick Guide to Addiction Recovery: What Helps, What Doesn't Kindle Edition

by Lisa Frederiksen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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“Alcoholism a disease? No way! Cancer is a disease. All they have to do is put down the bottle!”

“If he cared enough about what he was doing to his parents, he’d get help. It’s that simple.”

“She’s been through rehab before – I don’t see how this time will be any different.”

Likely you've heard statements like these. Perhaps you’ve even thought them, yourself.

So much of what we believe about addiction and addiction recovery is bound up in stigma, misinformation and shame. This fuels age-old beliefs that addiction is a choice and failure to stop is a lack of willpower, a moral weakness. Equally inaccurate is the assumption that relapse means treatment failed or the person didn’t want recovery badly enough.

But times are changing. There is an active addiction recovery movement now gaining momentum. The word is spreading that more than 23 million Americans are living their lives in recovery from addiction, meaning they no longer use drugs and/or alcohol and have changed their lives through their recovery process. And President Obama's 2014 Presidential Proclamation of September as National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month included the following statement: “Research shows addiction is a chronic disease of the brain which can be prevented and treated. However, the stigma associated with this disease – and the false belief that addiction represents a personal failing – creates fear and shame that discourage people from seeking treatment and prevents them from fully rejoining and contributing to their communities.”

So what’s happened? How is it possible to define addiction as a brain disease and explain that addiction recovery is all about “healing” the brain? And what is it that helps a person succeed in addiction recovery and what doesn't?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00OYV3B7U
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ KLJ Publishing; 1st edition (October 27, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 27, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Lisa Frederiksen

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Lisa Frederiksen's most recent six books are anchored in her 18+ years of studying breakthrough brain and scientific research on a range of substance use and mental health disorder-related topics. This research is guided by her 40+ years' experience with secondhand drinking, which refers to the negative impacts of a person's drinking behaviors on others, and her other lived experiences, including eating disorders, trauma, and sexual assault. Her books are intended to help those who similarly struggle understand what is at the root of it all, namely the brain and the "things" it inherited or experienced as it wired, mapped, and developed. This kind of information is something people can use to change, to rewire, to remap their brains and thereby recover their physical and emotional health and quality of life, whether they are the one with the disorder or the one trying to help them. This work and study have culminated in her most recent book, "10th Anniversary Edition If You Loved Me, You'd Stop! What you really need to know when your loved one drinks too much."

Lisa founded BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 to change, and in some cases simply start, the conversations on these topics. She has appeared as an expert guest on a variety of television, radio, and Internet radio programs and authored more than 800 blog posts, articles, and guest posts. She is a nationally recognized keynote speaker with over 30 years' public speaking experience and consults with individuals, families, treatment centers and organizations across the United States and from as far as Kenya, Slovenia, Iceland, and Mexico.

Prior to this work, Lisa explored a wide range of topics in her writing and speaking career, including civil and women's rights issues (publishing four biographies on women leaders in these movements and serving as a nationally recognized keynote speaker on women's history); results-oriented workplace initiatives; career search and job-hunting techniques; and voter registration and empowerment. For more about Lisa, visit BreakingTheCycles.com and LisaFrederiksen.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Educational and Informative
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I'm not an addict, so I cannot speak for those of you who are, but it helped me to better understand the chemistry and process behind addiction. Short read, only read it once.
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Very clear and helpful in helping anyone understand the disease of addiction/ alcoholism.
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Steven Kassels
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014
As a physician who has board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine and the Medical Director for an out-patient addiction service I highly recommend "Quick Guide to Addiction Recovery". The author does a great job of explaining that addiction is a disease of the brain, no different than how diabetes is a disease of the pancreas. How a person develops the disease, what it takes to treat and recover from the disease, as well as what family members can do to help themselves, and through that effort, better help their loved ones is well elucidated . It is a free flowing read with excellent resources linked throughout. I highly recommend it.
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I felt it was too 'american' for me to relate to as a Brit
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