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Home Healing & Recovery Addiction, General

Addiction, General

Addiction appears in many forms.  It can consist of: Chemical addiction (drugs / alcohol / prescription drugs) ;  Sexual addiction (pornography / promiscuous behavior / sexual offending) ; Food addiction (overeating / eating disorders); Behavior addiction (workaholism / shopping addiction / internet addiction / etc.)

Some general principles are shared in this section that can help heal all forms of addiction.   Additional resources are available to address the ever-more-prevalant problem of sexual addiction.



Best Books on Addiction Print E-mail

These are our favorite books on healing from an addiction.

1) Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, by Alcoholics Anonymous

2) Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book 4th Edition, by Alcoholics Anonymous

3) A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery, by Patrick Carnes, PhD

4) He Did Deliver Me From Bondage (Revised Edition), by Colleen C. Harrison (LDS Book)

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