When Feelings Get Stuck: Helping Kids Understand Addiction in the Family is a gentle, illustrated story that helps young children make sense of the confusing feelings that come when a loved one struggles with addiction. Using simple language and warm, hopeful imagery, the book explains how "tricky helpers" like alcohol or drugs can stick to a grown-up's brain, making it hard for them to stop, even though they still love their family very much.

Addiction is not the end of the story, it can be the turning point.For too long, addiction has been seen as a moral failing to punish or a chronic disease to manage. Thriving with Addiction offers a radically different vision: recovery as a gateway to a healthier, more meaningful life.Blending cutting-edge neuroscience, real-world psychiatry, and powerful personal narratives, addiction psychiatrist Jonathan Avery reveals how healing goes far beyond symptom control ...

Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment provides a clinically detailed, evidence-based, and exhaustive examination of a topic rarely plumbed in psychiatry texts, despite the fact that co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders are common. The authors argue for a more holistic and integrated approach, calling for clinicians to tactfully but persistently evaluate patients for a broad range of co-occurring disorders before deter...