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A comprehensive guide to substance addiction, covering addiction, brain chemistry and willpower, goals of rehab, relapses, staying clean, and more.

Are you tired of feeling weighed down by the pain and trauma of your past experiences with toxic people or verbally abusive relationships? Do you feel like no matter what you do, you just can't seem to shake off the negative emotions and move forward in life? This book offers a comprehensive guide to help you overcome the pain and trauma caused by toxic people and verbally abusive relationships. It covers everything from recognizing the signs...

Sweet and self-conscious Sasha Collins has never had a boyfriend. She never would have imagined that anyone, much less the star of the varsity baseball team, would be interested in her unruly red hair and socially awkward tendencies. Sasha is completely shocked when confident and handsome Adam Lincoln chooses her to be his Chemistry partner. Despite Sasha's best friend's skepticism, Sasha refuses to believe that Adam selected her solely because...

A novel in verse follows the experiences of fourteen-year-old Lilly, as an innocent flirtation turns into sexual abuse by a friend of her parents and she is tormented by her abuser's threat to ruin her family and her own desperate need for help.

This could be you-or your sister, mother, child, or friend. These stories are five-alarm warnings from real women around the world. Just like you perhaps, they had no idea what happens in the gender biased family court underword-until they found themselves in a divorce or custody fight. Dr. Christine Cocchiola and Amy Polacko are both survivors of domestic abuse who work with family court victims daily. This expose not only validates the experience...

"Contrary to popular belief, addiction isn't a conscious choice. It's a chronic illness, like diabetes or asthma, that responds to treatment and deserves compassion. And yet, too many people expect their loved ones to simply recover on their own without interventions. Drawing on peer-reviewed research and decades of expertise, Dr. Nzinga Harrison reveals the factors that predict one's risk for addiction: biology and heritability, childhood experience,...

"Adam, a high school senior, rescues Julian, a freshman, from an abusive situation"-- Provided by publisher.

"Journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts"--. Provided by publisher

After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.

Seventeen-year-old Aly Bennett has been in love with her friend Luke for years. She hasn't told him how she feels for two reasons. 1) She's the girl with HIV. 2) She lied about how she got it. Aly never meant to lie. The words just slipped out on her first day of a support group for kids living with life-threatening conditions. It was the day she met Luke and Caroline, who would become her best friends and the closest thing she has to a family. After...