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Title: Seven Weeks to Sobriety : The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition by Joan Mathews Larsen ISBN: 0-449-00259-4 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Vital information for anyone struggling with alcoholism
Comment: Larson's book should be read by every director of every treatment center around the country, should be required reading for all doctors, and should be given to anyone who is trying to quit drinking but has had it up to here with the 12-steps. Though I personally am unsure of the efficacy of the nutritional supplements for myself (and I can think of several reasons why they didn't work for me when I tried them), I know they have worked for other people.
The reason I think Larson's book is so important is that it brings together in one place a large body of research into the physical nature of alcoholism, dispelling the common myth (perpetuated by AA) that alcoholics just drink a lot because they are depressed and/or weak and just need to get their lives together. This book provides a summary of experiments, studies, and investigations that have been going on around the world for decades into the physiological nature of alcoholism and how alcoholics are different from non-alcoholics. (The reasons that this research is not more widely known could be the subject of another entire book!) Larson's compilation of all these facts and data should serve as a starting point for further research into alcoholism to treat it as a physical/physiological illness and bring relief to the thousands of people suffering from it.
This book should also anger anyone who has been in a rehab center where they were put on "the hot seat" and forced to listen to people insult them in an insanely misguided and cruel effort to purge their desire to drink, anyone who has cringed sitting in AA meetings listening to people say, "Well too bad for him, I guess he's still in denial and hasn't faced his problem yet. It's his choice to stop or not to stop," anyone who has wondered why the best thing that the most prestigious rehab centers around the world can offer alcoholics whose bodies have been ravaged by alcohol is AA, and anyone who has lost a loved one to this horrendous illness.
Rating: 5
Summary: A marriage saver!
Comment: I learned about this book when I attended my first Alanon meeting. My husband had just come off another binge and I was at my end. He agreed to stop drinking to save our marriage and began attending AA meetings, but it wasn't enough. He'd stopped drinking before and always returned to it eventually. He needed a different solution. So, I purchased this book and we both sat down and read it. I didn't order the vitamins through their treatment center, but found everything we needed through Puritan's Pride There are A LOT of vitamins to swallow, but it's worth it. We learned that there are different types of alcoholism and that there is a chemical imbalance that causes the cravings and mood swings. By replacing what your body is missing, you can eliminate all of these things. If you are skeptical, try it and you'll be convinced. My husband was skeptical and now he's been sober, HAPPY, free from depression and mood swings, and has NO DESIRE TO DRINK for 6 months now. These changes began happening overnight. As soon as he introduced the right chemicals (through the vitamins) into his system, he began to feel "normal". I more than recommend this book, I insist on its importance to the health and well-being of anyone that wants/needs to quit drinking. So often it's the emotional side-effects of quitting drinking that drives the drinker back to their old ways - depression, anxiety, mood swings, anger, frustration, etc. Quitting drinking is not enough to save a marriage, as we found. You have to fix the emotional side as well. By fixing the WHOLE PROBLEM, we've saved our marriage and our family. Thank you to the developers of this system and the authors of this book. I will forever be grateful for what this book has done for our lives. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: 19 months sober
Comment: Having been a "social" drinker since age 20, my dependency on alcohol crept up on me; not until I realized my relationships were going downhill(friends as well as spouse) did I try to cut back drinking---not very successful so I decided to research my condition. This book was full of inforrmation I needed; I didn't change my diet that drastically but relied on the nutitional supplements which I still take altho not all of them or as many anymore. Not sure I could have done it alone.
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Title: Depression-Free, Naturally : 7 Weeks to Eliminating Anxiety, Despair, Fatigue, and Anger from Your Life by Joan Mathews Larson ISBN: 0345435176 Publisher: Wellspring/Ballantine Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How to Quit Drinking Without AA, Revised 2nd Edition : A Complete Self-Help Guide by Jerry Dorsman ISBN: 076151290X Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems -- Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded by Anne M. Fletcher ISBN: 0618219072 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Thinking Person's Guide to Sobriety by Bert Pluymen ISBN: 0312254288 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 10 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Beyond the Influence : Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism by William F. Asbury, Mel Schulstad, Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Katherine Ketcham ISBN: 0553380141 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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