Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction

Handbook for Mentally Equipping Substance Abuse and Addiction Counselors    by Michael Belzman
Price: $12.95 USD. 75740 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2013. Nonfiction » Career Guides » Healthcare Practitioners.

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Bipolar Disorder or Drugs    by Jane Dode
Price: Free! 4950 words. Language: English. Published on April 7, 2013. Nonfiction » Psychology » Mental illness.

In this Volume I change gears again; to tell the true stories of my patients at the inpatient psychiatric hospital and my outpatient clinic, who experienced the negative effects of the synthetic cannabis products, commonly referred to as K2 or Spice.
K2 Vampires    by Jane Dode
Price: $0.99 USD. 4790 words. Language: English. Published on March 26, 2013. Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction.

In the last few years, news channels around the world have broadcasted the horror stories of individuals who used K2 and Spice. These are two of the more popular brand names of the synthetic marijuana product, which was usually marketed as herbal incense. However, many consumers of this cannabis creation, who were under the assumption they were going to experience the same high--not so!
Diary of Doses    by Rob Dickenson
Price: $3.99 USD. 15730 words. Language: English. Published by Gegensatz Press on November 10, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction.

Brutal, filthy, no-holds-barred imagist poems that use sarcastic honesty, existential tension, and occasional humor to paint stark portraits of the hypocrisy, desperation, loneliness, delusion, and squalor of the substance abuse world.
Knowing Your Addiction Breaking Bad Intimacy    by A. J. Puthuva
Price: $1.99 USD. 8000 words. Language: English. Published on November 6, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction.

This book is a psychological investigation into the relationship between addiction and intimacy, employing an Attachment and Object Relations theoretical perspectives. The hypothesis of this book is that certain early childhood attachment experience is translated in adolescence as a propensity for addiction or the capacity for intimacy.
Self-Help Manual For Relatives of Substance Abusers 110 Exercises    by Carina Bang
Price: $4.99 USD. 14420 words. Language: English. Published on October 15, 2012. Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcoholism.

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This is a self-help manual for relatives of substance abusers. Its aim is to enable for the relatives to free their potential and focus on themselves and their needs to start a gradual process to a larger well-being through the support of this manual.
6 days till Christmas    by Ravil Domaev
Price: $4.00 USD. 62170 words. Language: English. Published by izdat-knigu.ru  on October 4, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction.

Книга знакомит читателя с проблемами людей, их отчаянием и надеждой. А какие беды у человека? Нелюбовь, несчастье, нездоровье, неблагополучие, неверие, нежелание жить… Каждый рассказ – отдельная история. За каждой историей — судьбы людей. И каждый из героев обрел полноценную жизнь, а уж какую именно, автор попробовал рассказать вам…
Adolescent and Young Adult Addiction: The Pathological Relationship To Intoxication and the Interpersonal Neurobiology Underpinnings    by Jon Daily, LCSW, CADC II
Price: $22.00 USD. 53490 words. Language: English. Published on September 20, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction.

This thought provoking book “Adolescent & Young Adult Addiction: The Pathological Relationship to Intoxication and The Interpersonal Neurobiology Underpinnings” discusses the struggles of that the youth of today are faced with and puts forth that adolescent and young adult addicts are not addicted to marijuana, alcohol, ecstasy, oxycontin, heroin, etc. In fact, the name of the drug is an illusion
Expectations of Parents - Adolescence and Parenting Report    by Maria Teresa Lombardi
Price: $3.00 USD. 1540 words. Language: English. Published by ALVIS International Editions  on June 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Addiction.

Adolescence is the age of great change, an age in itself at risk of distress: it involves the discovery and structuring self-conscious, aware of social and sexual relations, autonomy. This short paper is intended to focus, albeit concisely, some vital aspects of the report highlighting the deviant aspects and risk factors inherent in the projection of parental expectations in adolescence.
La Dipendenza da Internet    by Fulvio Riccardi
Price: $4.00 USD. 11580 words. Language: Italian. Published by ALVIS International Editions  on April 10, 2012. Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Addiction and recovery.

Sempre più persone utilizzano e dipendono da questo nuovo mezzo di comunicazione, e questo processo sta producendo dei fenomeni patologici che si manifestano con una sintomatologia simile a quella che osserviamo in soggetti dipendenti da sostanze psicoattive. Infatti, esiste una vera e propria psicopatologia denominata Internet Addiction Disorder (I.A.D.), dovuta all’abuso di Internet.