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    Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction
    Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction
    Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction
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    Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction

    Written by Lance M. Dodes

    Narrated by John Meagher

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    “Dr. Dodes’s approach runs directly counter to the paralyzing, but standard, message of ‘powerlessness’—a mes­sage that reinforces the sense of helplessness that is at the root of addicts’ life predicaments! Many psychiatrists recognize that this is where we must head, but Dr. Dodes is one with the guts to shine a beacon in the right direction.”

    —Stanton Peele, PhD, author of 7 Tools to Beat Addiction and The Life Process Program of Treatment

     

    The follow-up to his groundbreaking volume The Heart of Addiction, Dr. Lance Dodes’s Breaking Addiction is a step-by-step guide to beating addiction of any kind—from drugs and gambling to alcoholism, overeating, and sex addiction. By recognizing and understanding the emotional forces underlying addictive behaviors, Dr. Dodes says any dangerous, life-destroying obsession can be overcome. Including special bonus sections for both families and health-care professionals, Breaking Addiction is the new handbook for those suffering from addiction—a valuable resource that addresses addiction’s root causes and serves as an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and similar recovery programs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9780062061638
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    Lance M. Dodes

    Lance Dodes, MD, is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in the Division on Addictions. He has been director of the substance abuse treatment unit of Harvard's McLean Hospital and director of the Boston Center for Problem Gambling. He has been elected a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.

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    • 5/5
      I've suffered from addiction nearly my entire life. I have been treatment multiple times I have seen license addiction counselors CDC counselors went cold turkey but everything is focused on my drug used for alcohol use or gambling problems. this is an amazing book I recommend everybody should read this not only individual suffering from addictions but family members counselors and other individuals would like and need understand addictions. what an amazing perspective someone who views addiction as something completely different then what has been burned into my brain and others that addiction is Abe brain disease and that we focus only purely on the behavior and not the problem. I love this book thank you so much doctor Lance thank you so much I'm so glad I found it and I hope others fighting is too and recommended everyone

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      a good book if one can apply the techniques it maybe helpful.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Awesome! Well explained gets to the point and not too long