A thorough guide about how to get help for a friend or loved one who is having problems with alcohol or other drugs. Provides places, names, numbers-who to call, what questions to ask, and what to expect. This invaluable guide includes six initial options for getting into recovery:
- The AA treatment program
-Interventions, detox and rehab
-Work related programs
-Al-Anon
-Law-enforcement programs
-Therapeutic communities
Addiction-Free: How to Help an Alcoholic or Addict Get Started on Recovery is a much-needed guide for everyone whose life is touched by addiction.
"For anyone who lives and worries about an alcoholic or drug addict."
Carol Cox Smith, author of Recovery at Work
"A primer treating all the major strategies for helping alcoholics and addicts toward sobriety. This book guides its readers to little-known, yet very powerful sources of help."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Easily readable directions as to how family members, friends, as well as the afflicted persons themselves, can find tremendously helpful assistance and guidance"
Robert A. Liebelt, author of Straight Talk About Alcoholism
