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Treatment planning is a pain and this makes life easy. The Addictions Planner expands the best selling Chemical Dependence Planner by including other addictions such as gambling, sexual addiction etc...I can do a plan using this book in 10 minutes. That used to take me over an hour. Thanks.

Being fairly new to the "recovery" phase of Addiction, I found this to be a fairly accurate autobiography. It was well written to where, even I the Addict", could not argue the logic contained in the book. If there was a missing piece, particularly in understanding the potential sources of "Addictive Personalities", I'd have to say that there was little mention of early childhood religion exposure. Shame appears to be my biggest obstacle in recovery, yet the book fails to describe a good methodology for putting it to rest. With that exception, I believe this book to be an outstanding overview of the Addictive Personality to be read by both the Addict and those around him/her.

The stories describe life in the opium dens, dealing with the Federal Narcotics Farms (Texas & Kentucky)and dealing with the pressures applied in the Anslinger era. It's a telling exposé of how little progress has been made in Drug Control Policy.

Stanislav Grof was chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. After more than thirty years of studying nonordinary states of consciousness, Grof has concluded that the avenues of exploration available to our psyches via holographic interconnectedness are more than vast; they are virtuallly endless.

Initially, Grof investigated the clinical uses of the hallucinogen LSD at the Psychiatric Research Institute in his native Prague, Czechoslovakia. It quickly became clear that serial LSD sessions were able to expedite the psychothereapeutic process and shorten the time necessary for the treatment of many disorders.

But LSD opened up much more than just issues involving their illnesses and included experiences of reliving what it was like to be in the womb, explore what it was like ot be other living things and even other objects, able to tap into the consciousness of their relatives and ancestors, accessing racial and collective memories in past history, and occassionally related uncannily accurate precognitive information. In an even stranger vein, they sometimes encountered nonhuman intelligences, traveled to what appeared to be other universes and other levels of reality.

Perhaps Grof's most remarkable discovery is that the same phenomena reported by individuals who have taken LSD can also be experienced without resorting to drugs of any kind. Grof and his wife, Christina, developed a simple, nondrug technique for inducing these nonordinary states of consciousness. They call their technique "holotropic therapy" and use only rapid and controlled breathing, evocative music, and massage and body work, to induce altered states of consciousness. Grof describes his current work and gives a detailed account of his methods in this book.

We have all 3 of Patricia Hartland's children's books and they are the greatest to teach any young kids (3-8)self-worth and real family values in an entertaining way. Great for reading to each child...lots of fun and super pictures. The BEST!

If your looking for a good reference book for information on prescription and non-prescription drugs, this is one of the best choices for patients and consumers. It is big and heavy and covers most of the drugs your likely to encounter. Some non-prescriptions drugs (such as dandruff shampoo) are excluded from the print edition due to size considertions. Its an expensive book to buy new through Amazon but buy it from one of the vendors and it can be obtained for under $10...a great bargain. Buy it and the PDR POCKET REFERENCE TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, they compliement each other. THE PDR is based on information provided by Drug companies while the USP is developed independently of Drug companies.

I got an advance copy of this book, and now want to buy one for my friend, this is his best of the three that I know of, that he wrote, the other two being on prevention and a guide in the drug and alcohol area. I've been to Aftercare, and I guess to be honest, I kind of forgot what it was all about, matter of fact, not until I read his book did I fully understand now, what the counselor was aiming for. I wish I'd have read it before I went to the group. Anyways, it was an easy read, and its really a small book, can read it in one setting. But it got all you need in it.

Mark A.R. Kleiman's Against Excess is a pretty splendid little bit of work, by someone who has clearly been thinking for a long time about how to combat the various drug problems. As with a lot of what's been making me happy recently, Kleiman's book is good less for the solutions it advances -- though it does advance a lot of those -- and more for the habits of thought that it shakes loose. For instance, Kleiman objects to our calling the drug problem "the drug problem." He would insist that there are separate drug problems for alcohol, cocaine, nicotine and heroin. Each has its own modes of acting on addicts. Heroin, for instance, leaves addicts docile; hence the problem with heroin is not the drug itself, and more what happens when the drug is made illegal. Alcohol, on the other hand, is dangerous because it makes people more violent (toward spouses especially) and when it's combined with automobiles.

So Kleiman has a number of different policies to suggest for a number of different drugs. One recurring theme throughout is that there ought to be drug licenses, just as there are driver's licenses. Your drinking license could be revoked permanently if you've ever driven drunk. Likewise, you could choose to get a non-drinker's license if you worried about your own ability to control your habit, or if your religion forbade you from indulging. One advantage to getting such a license is that insurance companies would presumably give you lower rates.

A number of little suggestions like this add up to a book that strikes a highly nuanced pose between strict prohibition and strict legalization. One such spot in the middle is decriminalization, which makes dealing a drug illegal -- and more-strictly punished -- but leaves consumers alone.

Kleiman makes our thoughts substantially more flexible. As such, he moves the entire drug-policy discussion forward. I doubt anyone in government is listening to him -- as he himself notes, war metaphors are far more common and allow for much less wiggle room -- but it's good that he's there. I wonder whether he's made any inroads since the book came out in the early 90's.

This is a nitty gritty view of why AIDS research is dragging in this country. We're brought to tears as our frustration levels rise when reading this book. It makes us want to fax hundreds of letters to the NY Times asking that President Clinton read this book and get moving to resolve the situation. Perfect reading for the beach..

Target market is Physicians and Pharmacists, gives drug description, pharmacology, indications, contraindications, side effects, adverse reactions, dosages and packaging information. An absolute necessity for every Office, Floor, and Department of every healthcare institution in America and Around the World. Updated annually with several smaller updates throughout each year.