Out From Under: Treating Your Own Addictions

OUT FROM UNDER!
Treating Your Own Addictions

Dan Mahony, M.Phil. & Bill Moschella, D.M.D., M.Ed.

Handbook of new concepts, step by step methods, and hundreds of resources. Deals with the underpinnings of smoking, alcohol, compulsive shopping and debt, addictive relationships, and much more.

Dan Mahony began his work with addicted persons while a doctoral student at Columbia University. Then he spent a dozen years working on New York's Bowery and in treatment centers and shelters in the Boston area. Following that he was Clinical Supervisor at a Salvation Army facility treating addiction and training students.
: Bill Moschella is the founder of the American Institute for Recovery. He is a dental surgeon who also holds a Masters Degree in community counseling, and has been working with addicted persons for twenty years in spiritual counseling and in community drug prevention programs. Dr. Moschella is also a lawyer!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1	Nearly Everyone Has An Addiction
Chapter 2	What to Do and How to Start
Chapter 3	Having Fun Without It
Chapter 4	Learning About Yourself
Chapter 5	Deep Self
Chapter 6	Your Network
Chapter 7	Relapse and What to Do About It

STRATEGIES AND TACTICS

1	365 Ways to Have Fun
2	Under the Influence Right Now? Read This Right Now
3	Groups Needing Volunteers
4	Recovery Network Questionnaire
5	Healing Activities Schedule
6	101 Recovery Things to Do
7	List of Addictions
8	Some Books to Read
9	Frequently Asked Questions
10	Alcohol in Over-the-Counter Medications
11	You and Sugar
12	You and Caffeine
13	Ways to Beat Cigarette Addiction
14a	Rational Recovery Systems: Reconsidering the Central Beliefs of Alcoholism
14b	*Secular Organization for Sobriety*
15	HIS Twelve Steps
16	ACOA Thoughts for All of Us
17	What A Sponsor Does
18	Go On! Go to a Meeting
19	List of Support Systems
20	The Daily Checklist

Cover: "Out from Under the Rock" by John Cody

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

1. THIS BOOK COMBINES TRADITIONAL WAYS WITH NEW WAYS OF TREATING ONE'S ADDICTIONS.

2. READ FROM THIS BOOK EVERY DAY.

3. TWICE A WEEK IS 'APPENDIX DAY' WHEN YOU READ ONLY THE APPENDIXES.

4. CONSULT YOUR DAILY CHECKLIST EVERY DAY (APPENDIX 20).

5. MAKE A COMMITMENT TO FOLLOWING ALL INSTRUCTIONS. SAY TO YOURSELF RIGHT NOW, "I WILL FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS." SAY THIS TWENTY MORE TIMES.

6. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A SUBSTANCE AT THIS MOMENT, YOU ARE WELCOME; BUT CLICK APPENDIX 2 RIGHT NOW AND READ IT A FEW TIMES.

7. READ EVERY CHAPTER.

8. KEEP A SMALL NOTEBOOK IN YOUR POCKET. FILL IT WITH THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONNAIRES AND EXERCISES IN THIS BOOK.

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