Healing the Addicted Brain is a breakthrough work that focuses on treating drug and alcohol addiction as a biological disease?based on the Recovery Science program that has helped thousands of patients defeat their addictions over the past 10 years. It combines the best behavioral addiction treatments with the latest scientific research into brain functions, providing tools and strategies designed to overcome the biological factors that cause addictive behavior along with proven treatments and medications.

David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view-a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. With haunting candor, Sheff traces his oldest son's Methamphetamine addiction from the first subtle warning signs, the denial, the attempts at rehab and at last, the way past addiction. He shows his readers that whatever an addicts fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to the addiction.

A child who reaches twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so-and chronicles the fearful cost in personal pain and public dollars of our nation's failure to act on this truth. In High Society, Joseph Califano shows how substance abuse is the culprit in violent and property crime, soaring Medicare and Medicaid costs, family breakup, domestic violence, the spread of AIDS, teen pregnancy, poverty, and low productivity.

Cupcake Brown was only 11 years old in 1976 when her mother died and her life spiraled out of control. She moved to South Central, L.A., joined a gang and learned how to charge for sex. Drugs were her new best friends and before long she was a "trash-can junkie" taking anything and everything. It wasn't until the morning she woke up behind a trash dumpster that she admitted she needed help and was able to miraculously turn her life around.

As Koran Zalickas details her love affair with alcohol in this disturbingly truthful, autobiographical novel, she describes partying her way into alcohol poisoning and unwanted sexual encounters, which destroy her childhood and blur her perception of adulthood.