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Hachette Go
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2024.
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First edition.
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"We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain....
2) Playing God
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Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, Los Angeles surgeon Dr. Eugene Sands abandons his career, and finds himself crossing paths with a ruthless criminal, Raymond Blossom. Raymond hires Eugene as his "gun-shot doctor", to treat associates who cannot risk visiting a hospital. Lured deeper and deeper into the dangerous underworld and growing too close to Raymond's seductive girlfriend Claire, Eugene...
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Los raperos me llamaban «Abuelo».
Uno de ellos, al que llamaré «Nano», un chico bajito y delgado, con un deje macarra al hablar y voz endurecida por el tabaco, siempre andaba con algún porro escondido en la palma de la mano. A veces, coincidíamos en el parque de la Juventud, el lugar donde íbamos a parar punks, jevis, raperos y demás fauna. En aquel parque me cogía algunas cogorzas de vergüenza ajena en interminables botellones de litrona...
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Para los familiares, la adicción puede resultar frustrante, desgarradora, agotadora e interminable. Puede provocarles ataques de ira, dejarlos postrados en la cama, bloqueados por una tristeza y una depresión que no saben cómo superar. Muy pocas familias saben a dónde acudir en busca de apoyo y orientación cuando enferma un hijo, padre o cónyuge.
Blake escribió 'Yo te quiero más' para ofrecer un enfoque distinto a las familias. Así, combina...
5) Hijo, eres un adicto: Esta es la historia de una madre que lucha por entender qué le pasa a su hijo
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Nadie habla de las familias de los adictos. En los medios de comunicación, nos cansamos de escuchar testimonios de personas famosas que hablan de su experiencia con las drogas.
Son historias tremendas de mucho sufrimiento y, en el mejor de los casos, de superación.
Pero, ¿dónde están todas esas familias que viven el mismo horror mientras acompañan al adicto?
Esta es la historia de una madre valiente que lucha por entender qué le pasa a su hijo...
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A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia's strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis.
British Columbia is in the middle of an opioid crisis. Since the province of British Columbia declared a public health emergency in 2016 more than 9,400 people have died of drug poisoning in BC–an average of six people a day–with nearly 1,500 apparent opioid-related deaths in the first eight months of 2022.
In...
7) Fire Birds
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Selected for their courage, skill and sheer nerve, daring pilots Chief Warrant Pfficer II Jake Preston (Nicolas Cage) and Chief Warrant Officer II Billie Lee Guthrie (Sean Young) police the sky as part of an elite Army helicopter task force. Aerial avengers who hover, dive and dodge near the brink of death everyday, they fight their air battles with a unique weapon: the high-tech Apache helicopter -- the army's most advanced flying fighting machine....
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Throughout this workbook, we will use compassion as a lens to look at your recovery process.
Why Compassion?
After years of working in the field of addiction and recovery, the most significant contributor to continued drug and alcohol use or relapse that I've seen has been shame, guilt, regret, anger, or harshness towards self. Rarely do these painful emotions alone lead to long-term recovery. What I believe leads to long-term sobriety and...
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My name is Doug Llewellyn at this writing I'm 73 years old, my wife Wendy and I have 8 children one died at a week old. Wendy had 7 children her oldest died at 23 by an impaired driver, the same age. Wendy was born in Winnipeg in 1955 and I was born in Montague, PEI in 1950. We first got together about 41 years ago. We met through our recovery from addiction about 8 years after we met, we got married. It was the best move I ever made. I come from...
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Nobody has had an answer for why people with addictions continue to repeat them -- until now.
For more than twenty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction, and more with a radical approach. Dr. Dodes describes how all addictions have, at their heart, unrecognized emotional factors that explain:
• Why we feel the impulse
• Why...
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A compassionate & inspiring book with daily reads for sobriety. Make your day easier and honestly better with a short meditational text to encourage, strengthen and comfort your recovery journey. The book is created for all people who're struggling with addiction and want a simple, uplifting tool for daily support. Every page consist of one insightful message or quote to help you stay sober every day. If you want a powerful book to help you start...
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DOWNLOADABLE WORKBOOK INCLUDED!!!
Conquer addiction and keep relapse at bay, even if the road ahead seems unfathomably difficult. Your chance to redefine your life starts here.
Do you find yourself, or someone you love, spiraling down the destructive path of substance or food addiction?
Does the clawing fear of relapse lurk at the back of your mind, haunting even your fleeting moments of triumph?
Are you desperate to reclaim control...
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Develop the skills to cope with addiction with this simple guide to cultivating resilience through mindfulness
Managing addiction requires learning to live every day in the moment, one minute at a time. This mindfulness workbook gives you the tools you need in order to ground yourself in the present and create a healthier mindset, so you're less likely to fall back into addictive behaviors.
Providing a holistic overview, this compassionate mindfulness...
14) Veronica Guerin
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In the mid-1990s, Dublin was nothing short of a war zone, with a few powerful drug lords battling for control. Their most fearsome opponent was not the police but the courageous journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), who covered the crime beat with unmatched intensity. As she investigated and exposed the "pushers," balancing her home and family against her responsibility to her readers and her country, she became a national folk heroine to the...
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Everyone is addicted-to some degree. We don't supply one addiction for another. This book delves inside and brings out our dynamic inner core and true self. In a short time, you will discover a way of living that will not only free yourself from your slavery but also amid your cravings and life's challenges in general.I will show you what is really going on and open you up in a gentle way to light up the darkness that has you depressed and confused...
16) Deconstruir las drogas: La historia completa sobre la reducción de daños y el futuro de la adicción
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«La obra de Maia Szalavitz pone en valor las vidas de los activistas que no solo crearon y desarrollaron la idea de la reducción de daños, sino que además la convirtieron en una fuerza social y política».
Este libro nos cuenta las historias en torno al activismo en reducción de daños. Desde un grupo de consumidores de drogas de clase obrera de Liverpool, quienes, ayudados por médicos y trabajadores de la sanidad pública, diseñaron los principios...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.' Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
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Neil Josten es un joven que lleva toda la vida huyendo de su propio padre, el despiadado jefe de una organización criminal. Está acostumbrado a vivir con miedo y a fingir ser cualquiera salvo él mismo. Cuando asesinan a su madre, Neil toma una decisión a la desesperada: incorporarse al equipo de exy conocido como los Zorros. El exy es un deporte rápido y violento, una mezcla de lacrosse, rugby y hockey, lo único que hace que Neil se sienta real.
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19) Never Too Late
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Second chances and opportunities in life are available to everyone. Situations are never permanent or in perceptual continuity. Circumstances change and evolve while wrong choices can become detrimental to salvage a situation. A good support system is required to achieve the desired positive outcome. Overcoming the negative impact of the environment is a collective effort. This book is pure fiction: it is a total figment of the imagination and creativity...
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Los Zorros son un equipo fragmentado, pero puede que Neil Josten sea el milagro que estaban esperando. La única persona que no está de acuerdo es Andrew, y el único capaz de penetrar las férreas barreras de Andrew es Neil. El problema es que Andrew no da nada a cambio de nada y a Neil le cuesta horrores confiar en nadie que no sea él mismo. Sin embargo, puede que no tengan demasiado tiempo; desde el equipo rival de los Cuervos, Riko Moriyama...
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