The Truth About Addiction and Recovery

A radical new approach to recovery—using methods proven more effective than medical treatment or twelve-step programs.

Drawing on the latest research and detailed case studies, the authors expose the best-kept secrets in the recovery field:

· Addictions—whether to food, cigarettes, sex, alcohol, or drugs—are not diseases, and they’re not necessarily lifelong problems.
· Many more people give up addictions on their own than are helped by medical treatment or twelve-step programs.
· Developing values, skills, and life resources enables people to quit addictions—and to shed the addict identity altogether.

In their revolutionary “Life Process Program” for overcoming all kinds of addictions, the authors emphasize self-help and treatment through coping with stress and achieving one’s goals. As helpful as it is controversial, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery will forever change the way we view and treat addiction.

“A classic.” —John Norcross, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Scranton and author of Changing for Good

• Recover!: An Empowering Program to Help You Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life
• 7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love
• Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
• Addiction Proof Your Child: A Realistic Approach to Preventing Drug, Alcohol, and Other Dependencies
• Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control
• Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction
• Addiction Treatment: Theory and Practice
• Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction
• The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
• Love and Addiction