Overcoming Opioid Addiction: The Authoritative Medical Guide for Patients, Families, Doctors, and Therapists

From a leading addiction expert, a desperately needed medical guide to understanding, treating, and finally defeating opioid use disorder

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, claiming more lives than the AIDs epidemic did at its peak. Opioid abuse accounts for two-thirds of these overdoses, with over 100 Americans dying from opioid overdoses every day.

Now Overcoming Opioid Addiction provides a comprehensive medical guide for opioid use disorder (OUD) sufferers, their loved ones, clinicians, and other professionals. Here is expertly presented, urgently needed information and guidance, including:

• Why treating OUD is unlike treating any other form of drug dependency
• The science that underlies addiction to opioids, and a clear analysis of why this epidemic has become so deadly
• The different stages and effective methods of treatment, including detoxification vs. maintenance medications, as well as behavioral therapies
• How to deal with relapses and how to thrive despite OUD
• Plus a chapter tailored to families with crucial, potentially life-saving information, such as how to select the best treatment program, manage medications, and reverse an overdose.

• Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
• Mastering the Addicted Brain: Building a Sane and Meaningful Life to Stay Clean
• American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
• The Addiction Recovery Workbook: Powerful Skills for Preventing Relapse Every Day
• Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
• I Want to Change My Life: How to Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Addiction
• Rewired: A Bold New Approach To Addiction and Recovery
• Opiate Addiction - The Painkiller Addiction Epidemic, Heroin Addiction and the Way Out
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• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America