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Recovery Options: The Complete Guide

by Joseph Volpicelli

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A clear and compassionate guide to overcoming substance problems

"A no-nonsense, state-of-the-art guide."--Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Coming Plague

"Comprehensive, illuminating, easy to read."--William Cope Moyers, Vice President of Public Affairs, Hazelden Foundation

In Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D., an award-winning addiction research pioneer, and Maia Szalavitz, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and former addict, provide frank and impartial appraisals of all the major treatment options, including:
  • Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Moderate drinking programs
  • Alternative treatments
  • Therapeutic communities
  • Cognitive therapies
  • Other 12-step programs
  • Medications
  • Methadone
  • Harm reduction
  • How families can help
In Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, you will learn what addiction is--and what it isn't. You will examine both the mechanism of addiction and how you can make the best treatment choices . . . why some people are particularly prone to substance problems . . . and the genetic and learning mechanisms that help create these conditions. You'll explore the various types of treatment and the ideas on which they are based, and find out how effective each treatment is--and which ones are not effective. Finally, you'll find supportive information on staying clean and sober, preventing relapse, and minimizing damage caused by slips that may occur.
Featuring the dramatic real-life stories of patients' experiences (both good and bad) with various methods of recovery, this warm, sympathetic, and accessible guide to overcoming alcohol and other drug problems will help you and your loved ones begin the journey away from substance misuse toward a better life.

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Book details

Author
Joseph Volpicelli, Maia Szalavitz
Imprint
Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
320
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
Self-Help › Mood Disorders › Depression
Topics
addiction recovery · substance abuse · alcoholism · 12-step programs · cognitive therapy · therapeutic communities · moderate drinking · treatment options
ISBN-13
9780471345756 (Paperback)9781630261559 (Hardcover)

About the author

JOSEPH VOLPICELLI is an American psychiatrist and addiction research scientist with over 100 academic publications and more than 25 years on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Combining Medication and Psychosocial Treatments for Addictions: The BRENDA Approach and Recovery Options: The Complete Guide.

Volpicelli holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is board certified in neurology, psychiatry, and addiction psychiatry. He is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and is among the first researchers to demonstrate that naltrexone was effective in treating alcohol use disorder.

When not writing, Volpicelli serves as medical director and founder of the Volpicelli Center in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and as executive director of the Institute of Addiction Medicine. This clinical work sits at the heart of his research and writing on addiction treatment.

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