Gene Hawes, Anderson Hawes

Addiction-Free (eBook, ePUB)

How to Help an Alcoholic or Addict Get Started on Recovery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A thorough guide about how to get help for a friend or loved one who is having problems with alcohol or other drugs. Provides places, names, numbers--who to call, what questions to ask, and what to expect. This invaluable guide includes six initial options for getting into recovery:

-- The AA treatment program
--Interventions, detox and rehab
--Work related programs
--Al-Anon
--Law-enforcement programs
--Therapeutic communities

Addiction-Free: How to Help an Alcoholic or Addict Get Started on Recovery is a much-needed guide for everyone whose life is touched by addiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429975254
• Artikelnr.: 39951779

Autorenporträt

Gene Hawes is the author of many books and articles. Among the most recent is Rx for Recovery: The Medical and Health Guide for Alcoholics, Addicts, and Their Families (with Jeffrey Weisberg, M.D.). In addition to his publications on addictions, Gene Hawes is well known for his guidebooks to colleges and careers. He lives in a small town just north of New York City.

Anderson Hawes is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC), a licensed social worker, and a certified chemical dependency counselor in private practice near Akron, Ohio. He was formerly the director of counseling for the Community Drug Board in Akron and has more than twenty years of experience treating addicted individuals and their families.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem: Enormous; Heart-Breaking--But You Can Have Great
Rewards Ahead
Prologue: Sure Signs of the Disease of Alcoholism/Addiction
One: The AA Way: Carrying the Message (After Having Invented It)
Two: The Professional Way: Intervention, Detox, Rehab, Aftercare
Three: The Al-Anon Way: To Stop Enabling; To Detach with Love
Four: The Work-Life Way: Programs to Start Recovery for Employees or
Professionals
Five: The Law-Enforcement Way: Drunk-Driving Arrests, Drug Courts, Prison
Programs
Six: The Therapeutic-Community Way: Daytop, Phoenix House, Samaritan,
Others
Epilogue: Essentials/Safeguards for Staying in Recovery
Notes
Sources of Help and Information via Internet, Phone, Fax, Mail, and Print
Index