Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex and Porn [VINTAGE 2013]

Fine unread condition black boards, black spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Praise for Recover to Live; Author Dedication; Preface by A. Thomas McLellan; Foreword by Patrick J. Kennedy and Jim Ramstad; Introduction: Are We a Culture of Addicts?; Appendix One: Drug-Use Treatment and Health Facts; Appendix Two: A Resource Guide to Recovery; Appendix Three: Experts Cited in This Book; Acknowledgments; About the Author and Index. ".[the book] is not only a personally revealing bible of hope and an encyclopedia for those struggling with addictions and their families.it is a robust anthem to inspire the recovery community to come together." - Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Founder, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "This is an important book by a genuine and insightful man. He is articulate on his subject and clearly researched it to within an inch of his life." - Russell Brand, actor/comedian. "There's great wisdom, insight, and knowledge in this book. Recover to Live will help ease the suffering of addicts and their families. It will help repair broken lives and save some." - David Sheff, author. "Personal, documented, and relevant is Christopher Lawford's strong and clear message on the Seven Toxic Compulsions that devastate many lives throughout the world. Recover to Live addresses the serious matter of dependency. It's a great book for your medicine cabinet." - Bob Martinez, former Florida Governor, Drug Czar under President George H.W. Bush. "From New York Times bestselling author of Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, comes a book that will save lives. For most of his early life, Christoper Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 26 years, he works to effect change and raise global awareness of addiction in nonprofit, private, and government circles, serving as the goodwill ambassador for drug dependence treatment and care for the United Nations. With a foreword by former U.S. representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.), Recover to Live brings together all of the most effective self-care treatments for the seven most toxic compulsions affecting every culture on the planet today - alcohol depedence, drug dependence, eating disorders, gambling, hoarding, smoking, and sex and porn. In Recover to Live, more than 100 of the world's top experts interviewed by Lawford share their research and wisdom on how to determine if your bad habit is becoming a dependency through self-assessments and symptom lists and how to determine which treatments will work best for you. Complete with individual chapter outlines to lead you to the most up-to-date and credible information, Recover to Live shows you how best to help yourself or a loved one recover from addiction and how to lead a fulfilling and productive life in recovery." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lawford holds a bachelor of arts from Tufts University, a juris doctor from Boston College Law School, and a masters certification in clinical psychology from Harvard Medical School, where he held an academic appointment as a lecturer in psychiatry. He spent 20 years in the film and television industries as an actor, lawyer, executive, and producer.…