Alive Again: Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction - Tapa dura

Howard Samuels is one of the world's leading drug and alcohol addiction experts who runs the prestigious The Hills Treatment Center in Los Angeles. Decades ago, from the age of sixteen until he was thirty-two, Dr. Samuels had his own intense struggle with addiction to cocaine and heroin. Using his own compelling story as inspiration as well as case studies of his patients from all walks of life, Dr. Samuels shows how readers can recover from alcoholism and drug addiction by following this 12-step program to happiness and fulfillment in sobriety. This self-help book provides hope, inspiration, and prescriptive advice for those who want to recover as well as guidance for friends and family members seeking help for someone they love.

• Written from the unique perspective of a recovering addict who has helped thousands of people overcome addiction to alcohol and drugs
• Shares with readers for the first time in book form The Hills' world-renowned treatment program
• Tells Samuels' personal recovery story as the son of a prominent politician and businessman among the rich and famous in New York and Washington
• Contains a groundbreaking prescriptive program showing how to work each of the 12 steps
• Examines the cause of addictions, relapses, and fallback addictions
• Contains important information for family and friends of those struggling with addiction, including steps for intervention and healing
• The author appears regularly on TV

A highly prescriptive guide to recovery from alcohol and drug addiction by the internationally renowned founder and CEO of The Hills Treatment Center

Howard Samuels's arrest for drug possession at age seventeen made the front cover of the "New York Daily News" his father was a well-known politician, and he lived across the hall from Greta Garbo. His addiction would control his life for the next fifteen years. Clean and sober since 1984, Dr. Samuels is one of the leading drug and alcohol addiction experts in the world and runs the respected Hills Treatment Center in Los Angeles. In this dramatic book, Dr. Samuels shares the story of his own struggle with addiction and shows how he learned to follow the 12-step path to a happy and productive life. He gives hope, inspiration, and prescriptive advice for anyone looking to recover--or to help a loved one recover--from the grip of addiction.