Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Psychopathology - Addiction

She was an accomplished health care administrator, a fundraising executive running a multi-million-dollar campaign for one of Maryland's leading health care systems. Her husband was a former mayor. They had raised a happily married daughter. From all appearances, life was rich and fulfilling. Except every night she went home to a dark house where her adolescent son huddled in his cave-like bedroom. Routinely, he disappeared at night while she lay awake, staring at the blinking bedside clock, waiting to hear his footfall on the stairs, just to know that he was safe and still alive. A story...

She was an accomplished health care administrator, a fundraising executive running a multi-million-dollar campaign for one of Maryland's leading health care systems. Her husband was a former mayor. They had raised a happily married daughter. From all appearances, life was rich and fulfilling. Except every night she went home to a dark house where her adolescent son huddled in his cave-like bedroom. Routinely, he disappeared at night while she lay awake, staring at the blinking bedside clock, waiting to hear his footfall on the stairs, just to know that he was safe and still alive. A story...

The Forever Fight: On Drugs, Alcohol, and the Cycle of Addiction is a straightforward guidebook that examines the top abused drugs around the world, and the physical and mental consequences associated with their misuse.  Explore the medical causes of addiction, the warning signs of substance abuse, how the mind and body are affected, and addiction recovery techniques and help options.

From the outside looking in, John Bielinski had it all—combat action as a United States Marine, professional success, a terrific family. He ran marathons, completed an Ironman, won countless martial arts battles.

And yet, haunted by the demons of anger, ego, and alcohol, he came to a devastating reckoning that began in a jail cell, threatened his fragile marriage, and jeopardized his career as a respected physician assistant and national medical lecturer.

Compelling and relatable, Before the Calm traces Bielinski’s journey downward to that fateful night and...