addiction

Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful
$29.99
This DVD production is a great personification of the words "Cunning, Baffling, Powerful" which anyone in an alcohol recovery support program is familiar with. This "personification" gives a good visual picture of the thoughts, feelings and imaginings many addicted individuals experience. It gives personality to addiction, and it's not a pretty personality. As one member of our AA group said, "it's strange to think that there is something inside me that wants to kill me". But, that's the nature of addiction. Awareness, support, and living a 12-step program is a good and necessary approach for this chronic condition.

Not to mention, this is a very well done DVD.

Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop?
$25.95
This book highlights the different opinions in addiction treatment. It is conveniently arranged. The stories of addicted people are good examples of practice.

The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment
$32.00
This is a good book for those unfamiliar with neurobiology in general, and who are interested in understanding the current neuroscience of addiction. It puts the neuroscience findings in terms that lay people can easily understand, and covers the important bases -- the effects of drugs of abuse; vulnerability to addiction; implications for treatment; and other topics. Specialists who are knowledgeable about the literature may wince here and there when neuroscience is overly simplified or, in a few places, actually incorrect -- but those errors are in the minority and the big picture is quite in keeping with what leading researchers (at the National Institute for Drug Abuse, for example) are currently thinking about the neural mechanisms of addiction.

Addiction
$24.98
This is a well researched and beautifully presented documentary produced by HBO on the disease of addiction. It is a great tool for the chemical dependency student as well as a great tool for chemical dependency counselors for use in their educational groups.