Addiction-Free How to Help an Alcoholic or Addict Get Started on Recovery [Paperback]

Addiction-Freeis a complete up-to-date guide of who, what, where, and when you or someone you love can contact to get help for problems with alcohol or other drugs. Here are the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses of the experts---millions have found a way out, and so can you.

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 Recoveryis a much-needed guide for everyone whose life is touched by addiction.

For anyone who lives and worries about an alcoholic or drug addict. Carol Cox Smith, author of Recovery at Work

Easily readable directions as to how family members, friends, as well as the afflicted persons themselves, can find tremendously helpful assistance and guidance Robert A. Liebelt, Ph.D., M.D., Medical Director, Sister Ignatia Hall and the Robert H. Smith, M.D. (Dr. Bob) Interim Care Center

I have spent twenty-five years working with drug addicts, alcoholigcs, and ex-convicts, and I have a doctorate degree in clinical psychology. No amount of experience or education prepared me for my closest relative going back into addiction. This book is a step-by-step guide on how to detach with love and how to find sanity while you're trying to help your loved one. Teri Lynch DeLane, Ph.D., director of Choices Program for Incarcerated Men and Women

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-Anolsj