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Real men drink. Just look at all the macho reasons for drinking: great nights, less stress, high jinx, amazing sex. It’s what proper blokes do. Except, that’s rubbish. Alcohol doesn’t make you tough, it makes you weak. It doesn’t remove your stress, it causes it. Behaving like a lad is preventing you from becoming a man. You can take control of your drinking.

It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a cure for that constant feeling of 'something wrong, something not quite right', a way of numbing anxiety and childhood trauma. He realised he was extraordinarily good at drinking and energetically threw himself into a life of pubs, parties and staying pissed, while also managing to become a comedian. But alcohol had the last laugh.

The first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous was published in April 1939. It rapidly became known as the “Big Book” and launched the AA Program that has helped millions of people around the world get and stay sober. As the basic text of AA, its chapters show other alcoholics precisely how 100 men and women recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. It lays out a proven program of action to stop drinking, including the original Twelve Steps.

At the heart of Dave Marley's book is a simple premise: Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's learning how to find your way back to what's important. Finding Your Way is a fascinating examination and eye-opening perspective on finding your path when you're lost.

Miles Cook never dreamed he’d be an alcoholic. Waking one day he realizing how trapped he had become. He embarked on a journey of self-acceptance and vulnerability to claw his way out before it was too late. With a powerful message and wry self-acceptance, Sobering Thoughts lays bare Miles’ toxic 30-year relationship with alcohol. This deeply moving audiobook will speak to your heart as you watch Miles’ struggle through a roller-coaster of self-taught recovery as he tries to reclaim his life.

The purpose of this book is to introduce a true introspection of the inner workings of the mind and reality of the author and his journey from poverty, drug addiction, mental illness, imprisonment, and homelessness to a successful self-made expert and professional entrepreneur in the field of mental/behavioral healthcare and addictions services. The book is a testament that treatment when empathic, genuine, spiritual, eclectic, and most important, culturally sensitive, works. This book is the author's testimony that recovery is not only possible but limitless.

Happy, Joyous, and Free is the intensely personal, deeply intimate story of Juris S' journey from spiritual death to abundant life. Dr. S takes the listener into his mind and heart to demonstrate how the belief systems that were constructed early in his childhood drove his actions and behaviors as an adult. Being strongly scientifically minded with minimal spiritual direction, he began as a militant atheist who chased the delusion of the "American dream".

Quienes conformamos Alcohólicos Anónimos, somos más de cien mujeres y hombres que hemos logrado restablecernos de una condición de salud aparentemente sin esperanzas de cura, tanto de nuestra mente como de nuestro cuerpo. Es así que el propósito principal de este libro es informar a otras personas alcohólicas, en una manera detallada, la forma en que hemos podido restablecernos. Abrigamos la esperanza de que estas páginas le resulten al lector afectado de alcoholismo lo suficientemente convincentes, a modo de que no busque una mayor certitud sobre el tema.