Under the Influence: A Guide to the Myths and Realities of Alcoholism by James Robert Milam, Katherine Ketcham, Mel Schulstad (Foreword by)
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: June 1984
- 256pp
- Sales Rank: 18,059
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 1984
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 18,059
- ISBN-13: 9780553274875
- ISBN: 0553274872
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reissue
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Ten of millions Americans suffer from alcoholism, yet most people still wrongly believe that alcoholism is a psychological or moral problem, and that it can be cured by psychotherapy or sheer will power. Based on groundbreaking scientific research, Under The Influence examine the physical factors that set alcoholics and non-alcoholics apart, and suggests a bold, stigma-free way of understanding and treating the alcoholic.
How to tell if someone you know is an alcoholic.
The progressive stages of alcoholism.
How to get an alcoholic into treatment -- and how to choose a treatment program.
Why frequently prescribed drugs can be dangerous -- even fatal -- for alcoholics.
How to ensure a lasting recovery.
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Groundbreaking Book on Alcoholismby Bo_Finney
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August 16, 2009: A must-read for everyone. Brings clarity to a sea of confusion. Provides hope, direction, answers. Makes alcoholism understandable. This book essentially changed my life. This book should be the standard for all prevention and treatment programs.
A Lifesaving Classicby Anonymous
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January 10, 2008: Author James Milam has repeatedly explained in his other writings and in hundreds of public lectures on addiction that important new discoveries like his own often come in the form of a new gestalt, a new configuration. His book, Under the Influence (UI), is a revolutionary classic because it winnows the wheat from the abundant chaff of the alcoholism literature to reveal just such a clear perception of the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Faithfully grounded in hard scientific and clinical evidence, the text has the unmistakable ring of authenticity. As a timeless classic it will always stand alone without need for revision, update or sequel Readers need to know that all other books claiming to be updates or sequels still express the more popular establishment view that psychosocial inadequacies and excesses are contributing causes of alcoholism that alcoholism is merely the upper end of the range of self-inflicted problem drinking. Plausible because popular, this seemingly innocent common presumption is the direct opposite of the truth that defines UI. Readers of UI who have an alcohol or drug problem, along with the others inevitably caught up in their misery, soon realize that this extraordinary little book is uncannily all about them. As they resonate with this self-portrait they know with certainty that it provides the authentic liberating view of their affliction that they have so urgently needed. It replaces stigma and guilt with enlightened self-interest as the far more effective motivation for total abstinence. Multitudes of alcoholics and other drug addicts have already demonstrated that it uniquely provides a clear understanding and unwavering guide to full recovery.
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