Library

Chronic Disease Model

Addiction is a complex disease affecting the brain and the body that involves compulsive use of one or more substances despite negative consequences. Addiction disrupts the parts of the brain that are responsible for judgment, memory, reward, and motivation. Addiction results in serious health and social consequences, damaging various body systems as well as families, relationships, jobs, and communities.

Chemical dependency is defined as a disease by most medical associations, including the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Like other chronic diseases, addiction is caused by a combination of environmental, behavioral, and biological factors.

Our Comprehensive Library Includes:

Our Library

Chronic Disease Model

Addiction disrupts the parts of the brain that are responsible for judgment, memory, reward, and motivation.

Chronic Disease Model

Addiction results in serious health and social consequences, damaging various body systems.
Read More

Tough-Love

Toughlove is also the name of a Self-Help program for these parents and their children.

Tough-Love

Toughlove, the self-help program, was developed by Phyllis and David York in 1980.
Read More

Relapse Prevention

Addiction is a chronic disease that affects your brain by rewriting how you process drugs and respond to stress.

Relapse Prevention

Long after your body has purged itself of the addictive substance on which your brain was dependent.
Read More

Life Strategies

Life Strategies will give you the most honest explanation of your life and how you got where you are.

Life Strategies

Many people struggling with addiction simply cannot experience the health for which they long
Read More

7 Habits

In order to change a situation, you first have to change yourself. And to change yourself effectively..

7 Habits

In order to change a situation, you first have to change yourself.
Read More

Principles of Making Marriage Work

Marriages are based on deep friendship.

Principles of Making Marriage Work

The main affective vectors (positive or negative “sentiment override”) –is the pervasive affect of the relationship.
Read More

An Addicts Tale

I am an alcoholic and I cannot use mind altering substances.

An Addicts Tale

I am not a social drinker, I drink alone to become intoxicated.
Read More

Assertiveness

Assertiveness means standing up for your personal rights – expressing thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Assertiveness

By being assertive we should always respect the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of other people.
Read More

Codependency

Co-dependency is a learned behavior that can be passed down from one generation to another.

Codependency

Those who behave assertively always respect the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of other people as well as their own.
Read More

GET AN APPOINTMENT

Contact Us

START CHAT

GIVE US YOUR BASIC INFORMATOIN