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Started by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 1989, National Recovery Month is a national observance held every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives. This month is a time to recognize the accomplishments of those in recovery and also offers a special opportunity for those who may need assistance to reach out and find a helping hand. The observance of Recovery Month also encourages citizens on a national and local levels to increase the availability of effective substance abuse treatment services for those in need.
SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357)or TTY: 1-800-487-4889 is a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders. This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations. Callers can also order free publications and other information.
The following list of books, films and websites offer education, resources, and insight on addiction issues, recovery, and where to seek help. All books and films are available at the Norfolk Public Library. The websites may be viewed online at any of the public computers located in the library.
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As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction
Dan Peres - Harper
Format: Book
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As Needed for Pain is a raw and riveting - and often wryly funny - addiction memoir from one of New York media's most accomplished editors which explores his never-before-told story of opioid addiction and the drastic impact it had on his life and career.Dan Peres wasn't born to be a media... |
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How to Quit Alcohol in 50 Days: Stop Drinking and Find Freedom
Simon Chapple - Sheldon Press
Format: Paperback
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"The sober life is so superior to the drinking life that there is no contest. But most drinkers have been drinking for many years, or even decades, and find [it] hard to change. The sober coach takes the hand of the reader and shows them the beautiful truth: that alcohol is a pathetic... |
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Are u ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health
Kati Morton - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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A licensed family therapist and You Tube personality, Kati Morton answers the most commonly asked questions about mental health, including when to get help and where to find it.Everyone struggles with mental health issues from time to time, but the greatest level of misunderstanding comes... |
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Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
Erica C. Barnett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Emotionally devastating and self-aware, this cautionary tale about substance abuse is a worthy heir to Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) A startlingly frank memoir of one woman's struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with... |
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It's Not About the Sex: Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Addiction
Andrew Susskind LCSW - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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Ending compulsive sexual behavior is just the beginning.Drawing on personal and professional experience, psychotherapist Andrew Susskind examines issues such as shame, grief, narcissism, and codependency to demonstrate how people use out-of-control sexual behavior to cope with brokenheartedness.... |
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The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
Lauren Etter - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company - the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive... |
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The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery
Mary Cregan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fearless, candid memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's... |
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We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
Laura McKowen - New World Library
Format: Hardcover
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"We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It's the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I've read. It's going to save lives." - Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior: A Memoir What could possibly be "lucky"... |
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The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know
Yngvild Olsen - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The opioid epidemic is responsible for longest sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy since the time of World War I and the Great Influenza. In 2017, nearly 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose - with an estimated 2 million more living with opioid addiction every day. The Opioid... |
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Finding Your Best Self: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both
Lisa M. Najavits PhD - The Guilford Press
Format: Paperback
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Addiction and trauma are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between addiction and trauma and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter where you are in your recovery.... |
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Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me
NOT AVAILABLE. - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success.Fear is holding you back. It's time... |
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Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son
Madeleine Dean
Format: Hardcover
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When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son, Harry, was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from taking the biggest risk of her life: running for statewide office in Pennsylvania. For years, she had sensed something was wrong. Harry was losing weight... |
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Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
Russell Brand - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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This program is read by the author.A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery."This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain... |
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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
Catherine Gildiner - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Catherine Gildiner is nothing short of masterful -- as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves... |
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The United States of Opioids: A Prescription For Liberating A Nation In Pain
Harry Nelson - ForbesBooks
Format: Hardcover
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Author Harry Nelson has been on the front lines of behavioral health and medical advocacy for 2 decades. He is the leading healthcare legal expert in the country addressing the worsening problems in how we treat pain and addiction. His insights have earned the attention of lead policymakers... |
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A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction
Paula Becker - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright, curious child. And yet,... |
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Assess, Rebuild, Connect: Creating a New Life Beyond Addiction
Adams Recovery Center - Kicam Projects
Format: Paperback
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Assess, Rebuild, Connect is the comprehensive resource that guides individuals and their loved ones through the three phases of addiction recovery and into a life of sustained sobriety. Featuring reflection questions and room for written responses, plus real-life success stories to inspire... |
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Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
Nina Renata Aron - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love "The disease he has is addiction," Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. "The... |
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Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn
Christopher Kennedy Lawford - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity Christopher Kennedy Lawford comes a New York Times bestselling book that will save lives.For most of his early life, Christopher Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 25 years,... |
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Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Trade Edition
AAWS
Format: Book
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The fourth edition includes twenty-four new stories that provide contemporary sharing for newcomers seeking recovery from alcoholism in A.A. during the early years of the 21st century. Sixteen stories are retained from the third edition, including the "Pioneers of A.A." section, which helps... |
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America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life
Benoit Denizet-Lewis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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America Anonymous is the unforgettable story of eight men and women from around the country -- including a grandmother, a college student, a bodybuilder, and a housewife -- struggling with addictions. For nearly three years, acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their... |
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Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
Anna Mehler Paperny - The Experiment
Format: Paperback
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An engrossing memoir-meets-investigative report that takes a fresh, frank look at how we treat depression In her early twenties, investigative journalist Anna Mehler Paperny had already landed her dream job. On the surface, her life was great. Nevertheless, she spiraled out, attempted suicide... |
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Free from Addiction: Facing Yourself and Embracing Recovery
Morteza Khaleghi
Format: Paperback
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Addiction invades every region and demographic in the United States, affecting more than 23 million Americans and putting families though a heartbreaking cycle of recovery and relapse. Many people give up and never find the right treatment that will enable them to break free of their addiction... |
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Addiction & Grace
Gerald G. May - Harper & Row; English Language edition
Format: Book
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May draws on his experiences as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, as he details various addictions and describes a relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness.
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Cool, Hip & Sober: 88 Ways to Beat Booze and Drugs
Bill Manville
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In a refreshingly clear-headed and informed approach to addiction, noted writer and radio host Bill Manville sums up what he's learned in more than forty years of research . . . twenty as a demon-driven drunk and twenty in recovery.From his popular show "Addictions and Answers," broadcast... |
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Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy
David Sheff - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science - not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking.These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse... |
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RecoveryThe Sacred Art: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual Practice
Rami M Shapiro - SkyLight Paths
Format: Paperback
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Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction -- and from Self and Selfishness"Twelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this... |
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Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life: A Guidebook for Parents
Linda Dahl - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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The latest information on gender-specific treatment of addiction and recovery can be found in this go-to manual for parents seeking direction to help their daughters. Step-by-step guidelines present tools for recognizing substance abuse in young women; communicating with them and their... |
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Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame
George Collins MA - New Harbinger Publications; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has struggled with sex addiction knows that living with constant sexual compulsions can be extremely difficult. But summoning the courage to find help for this condition can be even more of a challenge. If addictions to pornography, strip clubs, massage parlors, prostitutes,... |
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Stray: A Memoir
Stephanie Danler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration... |
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It's Not About You, Except When It Is: A Field Manual For Parents of Addicted Children
Barbara Victoria - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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Based on the author's own experience as a parent with an addicted child, she provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery. An essential book to help parents navigate this confusing and uncharted landscape - in the author's... |
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Al-Anon's Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions
Al-Anon Family Group - Al Anon Family Group Headquarters
Format: Book
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Because alcoholism affects all those who have a relationship with a problem drinker. Helps families of alcoholics by practicing the Twelve Steps used by Alcoholics Anonymous members.
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Spiritual Adrenaline: A Lifestyle Plan to Nourish and Strengthen Your Recovery
Tom Shanahan - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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Personal trainer and sports nutritionist Tom Shanahan outlines a program of action to energize, reboot, and strengthen one's recovery, especially those who feel they may have hit a wall in their program. Spiritual Adrenaline imparts the importance of a holistic approach to fitness,... |
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Luis J. Rodriguez - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature. Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless... |
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Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
Bill Clegg - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends... |
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Off the Rails: One Family's Journey Through Teen Addiction
Susan Burrowes - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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Fifteen-year-old Hannah was a privileged young girl with a promising future, but that didn't stop her from sliding into an abyss of sex, drugs, alcohol, and other high-risk behaviors. Off the Rails narrates Hannah's sudden decline and subsequent treatment through the raw, honest, compelling... |
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Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction
Dave Kindred - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing to wander across America on freight train cars and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, and withholding the truth from many who loved him, he never found a way to survive.Through this ordeal,... |
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Y O U N G A D U L T
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Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health
Melanie Siebert - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Featuring real-life stories of people who have found hope and meaning in the midst of life's struggles, Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health is the go-to guide for teenagers who want to know about mental health, mental illness, trauma and recovery. For too long, mental health problems... |
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The Art of Losing
Lizzy Mason - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover
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The Art of Losing is a compelling debut that explores issues of addiction, sisterhood, and loss.On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston's life changes forever. At a party she discovers her boyfriend, Mike, hooking up with her younger sister, Audrey. Furious, she abandons... |
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Nic Sheff - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took... |
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Where Things Come Back
John Corey Whaley - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Title: Where Things Come Back <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: JohnCoreyWhaley <>Publisher: AtheneumBooks |
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Beneath a Meth Moon
Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside shes still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurels new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom,... |
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Hey, Kiddo
Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Graphix
Format: Hardcover
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In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where... |
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Out of Order: Young Adult Manual of Mental Illness and Recovery
Dale Carlson - Bick Publishing House
Format: Paperback
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Out of Order is a manual for teens and young adults to help them understand mental illness and recovery. It covers such topics as mental illnesses, suicidal thoughts, personality disorders, learning problems, intellectual disabilities, treatment, and recovery. This book will help answer... |
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Go Ask Alice
Anonymous - Simon Pulse; 1 edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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This groundbreaking classic is more compelling than ever for today's readers. A sensation when it was first published and a perennial bestseller ever since, this real-life diary charts an anonymous teenage girl's struggle with the seductive--and often fatal--world of drugs. |
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Teens Talk About Drugs and Alcohol
Jennifer Landau - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Library Binding
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Drug and alcohol abuse can have a devastating effect on friendships and families. In this compelling book, young adults offer true-life tales that detail the price of addiction. Many of these first-person accounts highlight the fallout from a loved one's substance abuse issues, such... |
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Heroine
Mindy McGinnis - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis - the deadliest drug epidemic in American history - through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction,... |
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Everything's Not Fine
Sarah Carlson - Turner
Format: Paperback
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"Alive with vibrant, raw emotion." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Along with the relatively uncommon theme of living with an addicted parent, this emotionally intense tale offers ... an engaging picture of two teens circling and closing as they discover common ground."... |
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
E K Johnston - Speak
Format: Paperback
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"This story of a cheerleader rising up after a traumatic event will give you Veronica Mars-level feels that will stay with you long after you finish." - Seventeen MagazineLaurie Halse Anderson's Speak for a new generationHermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team,... |
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J U V E N I L E
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High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction
David Sheff - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Just Say Know! With drug education for children more important than ever, this nonfiction book draws on the experiences of the NY Times bestselling father/son team of David and Nic Sheff to provide all the information teens and tweens need to know about drugs, alcohol, and addiction.From... |
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Bird
Zetta Elliot - Lee & Low Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that dont turn out right. In real life, problems arenxt so easily fixed.As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brotherxs drug addiction, he escapes into... |
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Moon Pie
Simon Mason - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover
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Someone has to keep their head, as Mum used to say, and 11-year-old Martha is used to being that someone in her family. Her little brother, Tug, is too small. Her dad has been acting too strange. And Mums not here anymore.So when Dad falls off the roof, its Martha who ices his knee and takes... |
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Flight
Robert Zemeckis - Paramount Pictures, 2013.
Format: DVD video
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A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened... |
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The lesser blessed
Christina Piovesan - Distributed by Monterey Media
Format: DVD video
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An eye-opening account of what it is like to be a vulnerable teenager in the modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town discovering what they can of life and love... |
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A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich
Format: DVD
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Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year-old Benjie turns to heroin to escape. After Benjie hits rock bottom, his mother and her boyfriend must sacrifice to help him overcome his dependency. |
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28 Days
Sandra Bullock - Columbia Tristar Home Video
Format: Print book
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Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock), a successful N.Y. journalist and ultimate party girl, loves to havea good time! Trouble is, she never can tell when she's had enough. When she borrows her sister's (Elizabeth Perkins) wedding limo and plows it into someone's front porch, the wild... |
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Addiction DVD
HBO Documentary Film
Format: DVD
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Through 13 short films, this documentary brings together drug
and alcohol addiction experts with filmmakers to shed light on addiction, its causes and treatment developments. Its focus is on case studies and new medical treatments. |
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Clean & Sober
Michael Keaton
Format: Book
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After a series of setbacks, Daryl (Michael Keaton) seeks refuge in
a rehab program and must confront the truth of his own addiction at the urging of a counselor (Morgan Freeman), who has struggled with drug addiction himself. |
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Intervention Season 1: Then and Now (2008)
Sam Mettler - A&E Home Video (New REleaset)
Format: DVD
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Moving and raw, INTERVENTION SEASON ONE: THEN AND NOW documents the stories of six individuals from the debut season of this series whose powerful addictions nearly ruined their lives.Alyson was a gifted student and former White House intern until her dependence on alcohol and drugs nearly... |
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When a Man Loves a Woman
Andy Garcia
Format: Book
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Alice (Meg Ryan) is an alcoholic, and an accident that almost destroys her family causes her to seek treatment. This film
offers an honest look at the struggles of alcoholism on the family, as Alice learns to live life again... |
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Warning: This Drug May Kill You
Perri Peltz - HBO
Format: DVD
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This powerful documentary puts a human face to the epidemic of U.S. opioid abuse and its grave consequences, profiling a number of families who have suffered heartbreaking losses of loved ones who fatally overdosed. |
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Smashed (2012)
James Ponsoldt - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Alcoholism ruins relationships, careers, and lives, but sometimes relationships perpetuate alcoholism. Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her husband Charlie (Aaron Paul) share a love of drinking and partying, but Kate is beginning to realize that lately, every time she drinks, something... |
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Valley Of The Dolls
Jacqueline Susann - The Criterion Collection
Format: Book
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Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol, and pills. Includes many bonus features.
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Norfolk Community Services Board
IF YOU ARE IN A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS, CALL (757) 664-7690.
PERSONS IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO CALL THIS LINE PRIOR TO PRESENTING AT AN EMERGENCY ROOM IF THIS IS A SAFE OPTION TO PREVENT EXPOSURE. MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS COUNSELORS MAY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE ER TO ADDRESS YOUR CRISIS.
https://www.norfolk.gov/996/Norfolk-Community-Services-Board
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.
https://www.samhsa.gov/
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT & LONG-TERM DRUG REHAB IN VIRGINIA
https://www.addicted.org/virginia-long-term-drug-rehab.html
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