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The Recovery Book
by: Arlene Eisenberg, Howard Eisenberg, Al J. Mooney

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.29128
EAN: 9781563050848
ISBN: 1563050846
Label: Workman Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: January 10, 1992
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 61108
Studio: Workman Publishing Company

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Attempts to explain exactly what a recovering addict and his or her family will face during every stage of living clean and sober, with information on support groups, family relationships, temptations, and hundreds of questions and answers. Original.

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- Recovery Handbook
Good, comprehensive resource book for somebody in recovery. It provides a lot of specifics about recovery and dealing with life sober. I work in the field, and my client have found this to be a helpful book when faced with different challenges.

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- Simplistic and much too focused on 12 step
I bought this book ten years ago, when I first quit drinking. While it does contain some useful information, it is written in an overly simplistic, almost juvenile style that I found extremely annoying. Also, although there is a brief section on different treatment alternatives, all of the advice in the book assumes that the reader has chosen to go to AA/NA, so it really isn't a fair representation of the many alternatives out there.

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- Great book
This book was bought for two different people and they both have raved about how helpfull it was. I would recommend this for anyone struggling with an addiction no matter how severe.

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- Propaganda and dogma
This book, while written in a very reader friendly and understandable style and well laid out, is little more than a thinly veiled advertisement for 12 step groups--AA in particular, with a nod to NA. Many comments are completely unscientific and medically dangerous, including one on page 90 where it is stated in a footnote that methadone maintenance for pregnant mothers is to be discouraged and the momshould get off methadone ASAP to "save the baby from withdrawals" and improve her chances of keeping the baby. This is ludicrous and false. Methadone is the gold standard of treatment for pregnant opioid addicts. Tapering a pregnant mother off methadone can and often does result in fetal death, even when done slowly. The infant does not have the resources to deal with an unmedicated, in utero withdrawal. It is well known within the medical community that pregnant mothers must be maintained on their methadone until ... Read More

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