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Beyond Addiction: Sally Discovers How to Think for Herself is the last of the four-book Freedom from Addiction series. The character Sally describes how she grew beyond her need to conform to group or “tribal” pressures. While being tribal provided her with a sense of security, it came at a considerable cost.

Finding Purpose and Meaning: Sally Survives Her Brief, Nasty Dance with Psychiatry is the third book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. The character Sally is an addict who struggles with substance abuse. Her story delves into the dark realm of how addicts struggling with abstinence are inadvertently intoxicated when a psychiatrist prescribed drugs to help her cope with the underlying problems her substance abuse hid by using.

Discover an addict's story of substance abuse through the voice of the character Sally, who could be anyone's daughter, sister, or friend. Sally tells her story of the challenging journey to get and stay abstinent from all intoxicants. The message is that the journey is tough, and there are landmines along the way.

The number of addicts who become addicted is a global crisis that can touch any family. Two, the first book in a series of four books about understanding addiction, accomplishes this by providing an evidence-based psychosocial explanation of how addicts are created and how this can be avoided. The addiction scourge needs an explanation on which prevention and intervention strategies can be based.