Claudia Black This "little green book," as it has come to be known to hundreds of thousands of C.O.A.'s and A.C.O.A.'s, is meant to help the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what they can do to break the pattern of destruction.

Claudia Black This "little green book," as it has come to be known to hundreds of thousands of C.O.A.'s and A.C.O.A.'s, is meant to help the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what they can do to break the pattern of destruction.

HBO Video New Knowledge, New Treatments, New Hope. "Several of the nations leading experts on drug and alcohol addiction, together with a group of accomplished filmmakers, have assembled to create ADDICTION, an unprecedented documentary aimed at helping Americans understand addiciton as a treatable brain disease."
4-Disc Set

Marcus Engel, Marvelyne Engel Catastrophic injuries.
Immediate and total blindness.
An innocent young life shattered at the hands of a drunk driver.

This is an unforgettable account of turning tragedy into triumph. With heart wrenching honesty, humor and insight, Marcus Engel guides us on a path to self-discovery. This coming-of-age story will cause you to view obstacles as opportunities and discover that choices, not circumstances, determine ultimate happiness.

NIAAA For anyone who drinks, this video offers valuable, research-based information. What do you think about taking a look at your drinking habits and how they may affect your health? Rethinking Drinking can help you get started. 13:00Minutes.

Office of Research on Women's Health Alcohol is yet another health issue for women. Drinking, even in small amounts, affects women differently than men. And heavy drinking, in some ways, is much more risky for women than it is for men.
With any health issue, accurate information is key. There are times and ways to drink that are safer than others. Every woman is different.
No amount of drinking is 100 percent safe, 100 percent of the time, for every individual woman. With this in mind, it’s important to know how alcohol can affect health and safety.

Anonymous It's more than a book. It's a way of life.

Alcoholics Anonymous-the Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and now the fourth edition in 2001, the essential recovery text has remained unchanged while personal stories have been added to reflect the growing and diverse fellowship. The long-awaited fourth edition features 24 new personal stories of recovery.

Key features and benefits
· the most widely used resource for millions of individuals in recovery
· contains full, original text describing AA program
· updated with 24 new personal stories

Hugh Wilson This Twenty-Third Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: DRUGS, SOCIETY, AND BEHAVIOR provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor’s resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM (ISBN-13:9780073301907/ISBN-10:0073301906)is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.mhcls.com/online.

John Michael Readers will be enlightened, while seriously facing their lifestyle habits, with this succinct, yet comprehensive, dialogue of an ex-alcoholic and his conversion to drinking moderately.

The Century Council "You're about the meet a remarkable young man who has paid - and will keep on paying - a terrible price for a stupid choice he made when he was seventeen." Brandon drove drunk, sustained critical injuries, and continues to fight and learn each day how to regain his life. Brandon Tells His Story features Brandon Silveria, a permanently disabled man who crashed his car after drinking at age 17. Brandon and his father, Tony, tour America's high schools to educate students - over three million to date - about the dangers and consequences of drunk driving and underage drinking. In addition to the lecture program, their lifesaving message reaches thousands more students with a half-hour video and accompanying classroom activity guide that brings Brandon's story to high schools across the country.

Joanne Philleo, Frances Larry Brisbane This book provides alcohol and other drugs professionals with the vital knowledge and strategies they need to become more culturally competent - a prerequisite for success in the 21st century. It demonstrates how to integrate cultural competence and an AOD curriculum and how to develop highly effective prevention messages and treatment modalities within a cultural context.

Also available:

Person-in-Environment System Manual, 2nd Edition - ISBN 0871013797
Resiliency: An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy, and Research - ISBN 0871013509

NASW Press

NASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. We serve faculty, practitioners, agencies, libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad.

Known for attracting expert authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

-Social work in the field of aging
-Models of social work
-Social work with children and adolescents
-Ethics in social work
-Community organization
-Professional development

NCADI This video was designed to educate communities about the harms of teen marijuana use. The video highlights the latest research about the drug, features commentary by leading experts about the effects of marijuana on youth, and encourages communities to work together to address teen marijuana use. It also includes television ads for youth on the negative consequences of marijuana use for parents on the importance of monitoring their kids and for the general audience on the importance of community coalitions.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS) is a preventive intervention program to reduce drinking and enhance awareness about alcohol-related issues. BASICS targets college students who are considered at risk because of heavy drinking behaviors. The brief intervention relies primarily on a motivational interview to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and insight into the consequences of drinking. Studies have evaluated various applications of BASICS and found promising results. One such evaluation found that the BASICS intervention had an impact on various drinking behaviors, such as drinking quantity and perception of drinking consequences, as much as four years after program completion. Follow-up assessments over a two-year period showed significant reductions in both drinking rates and harmful consequences for students who received the intervention. Program impacts did not vary by gender, parental history of alcoholism, conduct disorder history, or student residence type.

Arthur P. Leccese Through scientific methodology and research findings, this text attempts to provide answers to the emotional questions surrounding the effects of drugs on human behaviour and society. Covering a range of drugs, including those prescribed for behavioural disorders or recreational purposes, it applies a scientific approach to the topic. Covering psychopharmacology, theories of motivation for use and abuse, medical assessments of the primary dangers of acute and chronic drug use and the research methodology and classification system used to study these drugs, the text requires little or no previous background knowledge of psychology. Amongst the issues addressed are societal views of pyschiatric medicines and abused drugs and how they affect drug abuse, and the special problems of using drugs to treat disorders involving excessive self-administration of recreational drugs. The basic pharmacology of every drug presented is outlined and there is thorough examination of how drug effects occur and their related tolerance, sensitization and physical dependence factors.

Robert M. Julien Includes explanation of pharmacology and autonomic nervous system, drugs for cardiac and vascular disorders, drug effects on the kidneys, lungs and gastrointestinal tract, hormones and vitamins, cancer drugs, immune mechanisms, poisons and antidotes.

Wendy Chapkis, Richard Webb Dying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing!

Warring Wines; ’You Want to Fight?’; Nurse Mary Jane in Santa Cruz

High Times interviews the authors

Alternet excerpt of the book ("How Pot Became Demonized")

Discussion from the Santa Cruz Metro

Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decades. Despite overwhelming public support and growing scientific evidence of its therapeutic effects (relief of the nausea caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS, control over seizures or spasticity caused by epilepsy or MS, and relief from chronic and acute pain, to name a few), the drug remains illegal under federal law.

In Dying to Get High, noted sociologist Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb investigate one community of seriously-ill patients fighting the federal government for the right to use physician-recommended marijuana. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) is a unique patient-caregiver cooperative providing marijuana free of charge to mostly terminally ill members. For a brief period in 2004, it even operated the only legal non-governmental medical marijuana garden in the country, protected by the federal courts against the DEA.

Using as their stage this fascinating profile of one remarkable organization, Chapkis and Webb tackle the broader, complex history of medical marijuana in America. Through compelling interviews with patients, public officials, law enforcement officers and physicians, Chapkis and Webb ask what distinguishes a legitimate patient from an illegitimate pothead, good drugs from bad, medicinal effects from just getting high. Dying to Get High combines abstract argument and the messier terrain of how people actually live, suffer and die, and offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuana.

Susanna Kaysen When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant.

Texas Prevention Partnership Inhalant Abuse is a problem in your state, your community and possibly your family. Take 10 minutes to watch this short film which will answer many important questions about inhalants and what the possible effects and harm may come from them.

This DVD explains why the issue of medical marijuana is a Trojan horse for a conspiracy against America. The guise to legalize dangerous schedule I drugs like heroin, PCP, LSD and marijuana is using compassion as a smoke screen. The promoter of medical marijuana has admitted that this is their foot in the door to total legalization. The DVD goes through the history of legalization in states like Arizona, California, Washington and Oregon to show how once medical marijuana is legalized the true motives begin to take place. (1998, 11 min.)

US Department of Health and Human Services Training Video for Clinicians. National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD) is the nation’s largest and most visible community-based intervention targeting alcohol misuse. Established in 1999 through a partnership between the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and with support from numerous other public and private organizations, NASD has three primary objectives:
• To administer free and anonymous alcohol screening in settings accessible to the general public
• To provide referrals for treatment to those whom the screen identifies as drinking at unhealthy levels
• To educate the public on the impact of alcohol on general health.

Lifetime Original Movie Jesse, a college freshman, has always been a good girl. She gets good grades, has a great relationship with her mother and is athletic. She is nervous being away at college and starts going out drinking with her roommate. She likes how everyone likes her when she's drinking and continues to go out. Her mother realizes something is wrong, but it takes a while before Jesse realizes she has a problem and turns her life around. Her roommate doesn't stop in time and ends up dying from alcohol poisoning leading Jesse to tell her story to prevent others from making the same mistakes.

McDonald, Roche, Durbridge and Skinner The monograph provides best practice guidelines for conducting peer education initiatives, particularly focusing on the practical considerations for planning, evaluation and implementing peer education initiatives. The document focuses on peer education about alcohol and other drugs for young people. A number of important issues are examined including defining peer education, evidence of effectiveness and the theoretical background of peer education.

The target audience for the Peer education monograph includes communities, workers and organisations considering, planning or currently implementing peer education programs.
The target audience for the Peer education monograph includes communities, workers and organisations considering, planning or currently implementing peer education programs.

Center For Sunstance Abuse Treatment U. S. Department Of Health And Human Services Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration Includes Cultural and Clinical Issues and Procedures when helping and treating the community.

Leslie L. Iversen After alcohol and nicotine, marijuana is the most commonly used "recreational" drug in Western countries, though official positions among different countries vary widely. A debate about the medical applications of marijuana and other cannabis-based preparations has been brewing for years, and pressure to legalise such use continues to increase. In The Science of Marijuana Iversen explains the remarkable advances that have been made in scientific research on cannabis with the discovery of specific receptors and the existence of naturally occurring cannabis-like substances in the brain. Iversen provides an objective and up-to-date assessment of the scientific basis for the medical use of cannabis and what risks this may entail. The recreational use of the drug and how it affects users is described along with some predictions about how attitudes to cannabis may change in the future.

Koren Zailckas Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye- opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment.

With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, "Where are we?" Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic.

Anne M. Fletcher M.S. R.D. Anne M. Fletcher resolved her own drinking problem without Alcoholics Anonymous and was fascinated by other people who had found alternative methods to stop drinking. In the spirit of her first book, Thin for Life, for which she interviewed "masters" who had lost weight and kept it off, she decided to find people who formerly had drinking problems and learn how they got and stayed sober. She interviewed a range of ex-drinkers, from high-functioning people with mild or moderate alcohol problems to hardcore cases who had hit bottom. The amount of alcohol consumed ranged from three daily drinks to two daily quarts of vodka. Almost all these 222 "masters" had stayed sober for 5 years or more, averaging 13 years of sobriety.

Sober for Good presents their stories: when they started drinking, how much they drank, how it affected their lives, why they decided to stop, what they tried, what finally worked for them, and their perspective now. The stories are compelling on their own, and Fletcher organizes them according to common themes and strategies. She also includes helpful information about different programs available and relevant research studies.

This book takes some controversial stances. Fletcher chooses to use phrases like drinking problems and alcohol problems rather than alcoholic because she sees alcoholic as both outmoded and pejorative. Many of the masters found sobriety through AA, but more found alternative solutions, leading Fletcher to dispute the one-path solution. And although most of the masters abstain from alcohol completely, some have alcohol occasionally, challenging the accepted contention that abstinence is the only solution. Read what the masters say and judge for yourself. —Joan Price

Media Education Foundation "Spin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviors."

Media Education Foundation Spin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviors. Award-winning media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne contrast these distorted representations with the often disturbing and dangerous ways that alcohol consumption affects the lives of real young men and women. Illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Katz and Kilbourne decode the power and influence these seductive media images have in shaping gender identity, which is linked to the use of alcohol. Nowhere is this link more cause for concern than on America's college campuses.
By exploring the college party scene, Spin the Bottle shows the difficulties students have in navigating a cultural environment saturated with messages about gender and alcohol. Interviews with campus health professionals provide a clear picture of how drinking impacts student health and academic performance, but it is the students' own experiences and reflections that tell the real story behind alcohol's alluring public image.
Spin the Bottle concludes with concrete strategies for countering the ubiquitous presence of alcohol propaganda and challenges young people to make conscious decisions about their own lives.
Sections: Get This Party Started: Glamorizing Alcohol | Under the Influence: Men & Alcohol | Message in a Bottle: Women & Drinking | Courage in a Can: Alcohol & Sex | Body Shots: Alcohol, Sex & Violence | Last Call: Changing the Culture

Bert Pluymen Answering yes to these questions sparked Pluymen's realization that life could be so much more fulfilling if he was sober. This book is Bert Pluymen's story of struggle and triumph over alcohol addiction. It also contains insightful, witty, uplifting, and wryly humorous stories of the many people Pluymen met who were also searching for sobriety. This is an informative book that will shed new light on how alcohol abuse can ruin people's lives—even if they thought it could never happen to them.

James Gray Our drug prohibition policy is hopeless, just as Prohibition, our alcohol prohibition policy, was before it. Today there are more drugs in our communities and at lower prices and higher strengths than ever before. We have built large numbers of prisons, but they are overflowing with non-violent drug offenders. The huge profits made from drug sales are corrupting people and institutions here and abroad. And far from being protected by our drug prohibition policy, our children are being recruited by it to a lifestyle of drug use and drug selling. Judge Gray's book drives a stake through the heart of the War on Drugs. After documenting the wide-ranging harms caused by this failed policy, Judge Gray also gives us hope. We have viable options. The author evaluates these options, ranging from education and drug treatment to different strategies for taking the profit out of drug-dealing.Many officials will not say publicly what they acknowledge privately about the failure of the War on Drugs. Politicians especially are afraid of not appearing 'tough on drugs'. But Judge Gray's conclusions as a veteran trial judge and former federal prosecutor are reinforced by the testimonies of more than forty other judges nationwide. Author note: James P. Gray is Judge of the Superior Court in Orange County in Southern California. He has served as former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and as a criminal defense attorney as a member of the JAG Corps in the Navy. In 1998 he made an unsuccessful run for Congress as a Republican against Bob Dornan. Judge Gray has discussed issues of drug policy on more than one hundred radio and TV shows and numerous drug forums around the country.

Insoo Kim Berg, Scott D. Miller Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Detailed description for psychotherapists of the solution-focused, brief-therapy, problem-solving method of working with problem-drinker clients. Based on the authors' work with their clients. DNLM: Alcoholism - rehabilitation.