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Survivors of addiction : narratives of recovery
- Author
- Addenbrooke, Mary, 1938-
- Title
- Survivors of addiction : narratives of recovery / Mary Addenbrooke.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Hove ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Description
- xiv, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Setting the scene
- A shameful secret
- Down and out
- Ambivalence second time round
- Lost in the labyrinth of addiction
- I did it my way
- Time to stop drinking with the boys
- I was able just to be me
- The prize fighter
- The turning point
- Starting from scratch
- Putting away my crutches
- What I learned when I stopped drinking
- A most astonishing thing happened
- The new task
- A bleak picture : hoping against hope
- A very major change for me
- Stepping away from co-dependence
- This intense relationship with life itself
- In the long term.
- Subject headings
- Addicts--Rehabilitation--Case studies. Substance abuse--Treatment--Case studies. Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--Case studies. Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--Case studies.
- ISBN
- 9781583917244 (hardback : alk. paper) 1583917241 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781583917251 (pbk. : alk. paper) 158391725X (pbk. : alk. paper)