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  • Services
    • Substance use evaluation
    • OWI evaluation
    • DOT SAP
    • Substance use treatment
    • Co-occurring counseling
    • Comprehensive evaluation
    • Performance Coaching
    • CRAFT
    • Groups
  • Groups
  • EMDR
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  • About
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    • Recovery support meetings
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Book recommendations

Addiction memoirs

Wasted: An Alcoholic Therapist's Fight for Recovery in a Flawed Treatment System, by Michael Pond and Maureen Palmer

https://addictionthenextstep.com/book/


Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, by William Cope Moyers

https://www.hazelden.org/store/item/11672


Beautiful Boy, by David Sheff, 

https://www.davidsheff.com/


Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamine, by Nic Sheff

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tweak/Nic-Sheff/9781416972198


Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola

https://sarahhepola.com/title/blackout/


Drinking, A Love Story, by Caroline Knapp

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/93860/drinking-a-love-story-by-caroline-knapp/


Chancers: Addiction, Prison, Recovery, Love: One Couple's Memori, by Susan Stellin and Graham MacIndoe

https://www.amazon.com/Chancers-Addiction-Prison-Recovery-Couples/dp/1101882743


Smashed, A Story of a Drunken Girlhood, by Koren Zailckas

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292396/smashed-by-koren-zailckas/


Lit, by Mary Karr

https://www.marykarr.com/lit.html


Dry, by Augusten Burroughs

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250034403/dry


Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety, by Sacha Z. Scoblic

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/468914/unwasted-my-lush-sobriety-by-sacha-z-scoblic/9780806534299


The Night of The Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his own life, by David Carr

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Gun-reporter-investigates-darkest/dp/1416541535


An Officer and a Junkie: From West Point to the Point of No Return, by Michael Winder

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1964683.An_Officer_and_a_Junkie


The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath, by Leslie Jamison

http://www.lesliejamison.com/the-book-1


Drunkard: A Hard Drinking Life, by Neil Steinberg

https://www.amazon.com/Drunkard-Hard-Drinking-Life-Neil-Steinberg/dp/0452295432



Theories of Addiction

Unbroken Brain, by Maia Szalavitz

https://maiasz.com/books/


Undoing Drugs, by Maia Szalavitz

https://maiasz.com/books/


Clean, by David Sheff

https://www.davidsheff.com/clean


Beyond Addiction, by Jeffrey Foote, PhD, Carrie Wilkens, PhD, and Nicole Kosanke, PhD

https://motivationandchange.com/family-services/resources-for-families/


Mindfulness

Why Buddhism is True, by Robert Wright

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/09/26/553712812/why-why-buddhism-is-true-is-true


The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, by Eckhart Tolle

https://eckharttolle.com/books/


A New Earth: Awakening Your Life's Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle

https://eckharttolle.com/books/

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