Project Addiction: The Complete Guide to Using, Abusing and Recovering from Drugs and Behaviors
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Scott A Spackey
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Every addictive drug and behavior is as unique as the individual caught in it. This audiobook abandons the recovery industry's one-size-fits-all mentality by separating each drug and behavior and provides strategies that are customized, specific, and detailed.
Addiction is a pathological disorder that affects every society and every culture on this planet and has for thousands of years. It is much more pervasive than other clinical disorders; it is a defect of brain chemistry, mental and emotional wellness, spirituality, and character.
I have pioneered new terms: AD (addictive disorder); APD (addictive personality disorder) as well as new terms for recovery: AP, RP, and SP (abstinence phase, recovery phase, and sobriety phase).
This is one of the only audiobooks made by a science-minded professional who also has more than 20 years of sobriety from 11 years of schedule-IV narcotics use. Most recovery programs and literature today are designed by clinicians who are well-educated but cannot personally report on the ineffable experience of addiction and recovery. This lack of personal insight compromises their ability to truly understand and provide the full spectrum of recovery needs.
When I began my addiction recovery, I was woefully disappointed in the available programs, as they were grotesquely expensive and nothing authentic and cerebral was available, no matter how committed I was. The multibillion-dollar recovery industry, with less than a nine percent success rate, needs an overhaul. The recovery industry regurgitates the same treatments, but AD sufferers deserve modern options that are appropriate for this progressive age. There are drugs in this new millennium that did not even exist when many of the current recoveries were established.
Project Addiction is a usable, innovative, unconventional guide covering the entire spectrum of addictive drugs and behaviors: what it's like to use them, abuse them, be addicted to them, and to liberate from them. No stone is left unturned!
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- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again - whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, our umpteenth diet, or engaging in any of a range of bad habits we just can’t seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, PhD, reveals why our bad habits die so hard. We have two brains - one a thoughtful, conscious, deliberative self, and the other an automatic self that does most of the work without our attention.
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Meh
- By Grateful on 12-31-14
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The Science of Stuck
- Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
- By: Britt Frank LSCSW
- Narrated by: Sasha Heinz, Britt Frank LSCSW
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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We all experience stuckness in our lives. We feel stuck in our relationships, career paths, body struggles, addiction issues, and more. Many of us know what we need to do to move forward—but find ourselves unable to take the leap to make it happen. And then we blame and shame ourselves, and stay in a loop of self-doubt that goes nowhere. The good news is you’re not lazy, crazy, or unmotivated. In this empowering and action-oriented guide, you’ll discover why we can’t think our way forward—and how to break through what’s holding us back.
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Mental health is a physical process
- By Meagen G. on 04-18-22
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Overcoming Opioid Addiction
- The Authoritative Medical Guide for Patients, Families, Doctors, and Therapists
- By: Adam Bisaga MD, Karen Chernyaev - contributor
- Narrated by: Liz Maxwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, claiming more lives than the AIDS epidemic did at its peak. Opioid abuse accounts for two-thirds of these overdoses, with over 100 Americans dying from opioid overdoses every day. Now Overcoming Opioid Addiction provides a comprehensive medical guide for opioid use disorder (OUD) sufferers, their loved ones, clinicians, and other professionals. Here is expertly presented, urgently needed information and guidance
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Authoritative, compassionate guidance
- By Amazon Customer on 05-20-18
By: Adam Bisaga MD, and others
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Sober Curious
- The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol
- By: Ruby Warrington
- Narrated by: Ruby Warrington
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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It’s the nagging question more and more of us are finding harder to ignore, whether we have a “problem” with alcohol or not. In the face of how we care for ourselves otherwise, it’s hard to avoid how alcohol really makes us feel: terrible. How different would our lives be if we stopped drinking on autopilot? If we stopped drinking altogether? Frank, funny, and always judgment-free, Sober Curious is a bold guide to choosing to live hangover-free, from Ruby Warrington, one of the leading voices of the new sobriety movement.
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Kinda confusing
- By Andrei on 01-06-20
By: Ruby Warrington
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Clean
- Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy
- By: David Sheff
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science - not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction.
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Unbearable narration
- By John on 09-10-14
By: David Sheff
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The Addictive Personality
- Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior, Second Edition
- By: Craig Nakken
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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For over two decades, The Addictive Personality has helped people understand the process of addiction. Now, through this second edition, author Craig Nakken brings new depth and dimension to our understanding of how an individual becomes an addict. Going beyond the definition that limits dependency to the realm of alcohol and other drugs, Nakken uncovers the common denominator of all addiction and describes how the process is progressive.
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Excellent book!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-24-19
By: Craig Nakken
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The Sober Truth
- Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
- By: Lance Dodes MD, Zachary Dodes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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In The Sober Truth, acclaimed addiction specialist Dr. Lance Dodes exposes the deeply flawed science that the 12-step industry has used to support its programs. Dr. Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments, and biases. He also pores over the research to highlight the best peer-reviewed studies available and discovers that they reach a grim consensus on the program's overall success.
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A necessary read for those with genuine interest
- By Gregory W Minton on 05-06-19
By: Lance Dodes MD, and others
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The Molecule of More
- How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
- By: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, Michael E. Long
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and more.
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Did you know conservatives have more orgasms?
- By Josh on 10-21-20
By: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, and others
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Alcohol Lied to Me - New Edition
- The Intelligent Escape from Alcohol Addiction
- By: Craig Beck
- Narrated by: Craig Beck
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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Craig Beck is a well-regarded family man with two children, a nice home, and a successful media career; a director of several companies and at one time the trustee of a large children’s charity. Outwardly, Craig was a highly successful and functioning professional man in spite of a ‘two-bottles-of-wine-a-night" drinking habit. For 20 years he struggled to control his drinking, all the time refusing to label himself an alcoholic because he didn't believe he met the stereotypical image that the word portrayed.
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This method worked for me
- By Kindle Customer on 07-07-17
By: Craig Beck
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Taming Your Outer Child
- Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment
- By: Susan Anderson
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Chances are, you've already had run-ins with your Outer Child - the self-sabotaging, bungling, and impulsive part of your personality. This misguided, hidden nemesis blows your diet, overspends, and ruins your love life. Your Outer Child acts out and fulfills your legitimate childlike needs and wants in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in counterproductive ways: It goes for immediate gratification and the quick fix in spite of your best-laid plans.
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Her voice made me cringe.
- By zoe on 02-15-21
By: Susan Anderson
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Constructive Living
- By: David Reynolds
- Narrated by: David Reynolds
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Constructive Living combines two of the most popular forms of therapy in Japan into one profoundly effective approach that will not only enhance your productivity but also bring a flexible, responsive mind - a Zenlike tranquility - a to your personal and professional lives. Discover the life-changing potential of Morita therapy (based on taking right action in the moment) and Naikan therapy (a way to cultivate your awareness of how the world supports you) in three information-packed sessions.
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Insightfully Practical and Realistic
- By Paul Fears on 02-08-16
By: David Reynolds
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Gratitude and Trust
- Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life
- By: Paul Williams, Tracey Jackson
- Narrated by: Paul Williams, Tracey Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Paul Williams is an alcoholic. Tracey Jackson is not. But together, these two close friends have written Gratitude and Trust, a book designed to apply the principles of the recovery movement to the countless people who are not addicts but nevertheless need effective help with their difficulties and pain. Williams, the award-winning songwriter, actor, and performer, has embraced a traditional alcoholism recovery plan for more than two decades of sobriety.
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Just what I needed!
- By Cheryl on 02-18-15
By: Paul Williams, and others
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- Melissa Maloney
- 05-26-19
Encyclopedia of drugs and addiction
Scott is extremely candid on his own drug addiction past problems. He gives great insight into the problematic way we treat all drug addicts into one bucket of treatment. After listening to this book you will have knowledge on virtually every drug that is being abused and its mechanism of action. This is a great read for anyone who is currently struggling with addiction or has a loved one who is struggling.
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- Jason & Amy Guymon
- 03-27-19
"GREAT BOOK!"
I think this is a great book for everyone. If you're a addict or not. This tells all.He understands it. I highly recommend this to everyone. Check it out and you will see....
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