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Codependency is a Toxic Myth in Addiction Recovery
Codependency has been thought of as a disease, people enabling loved ones to continue to use substances. But its tenets are not supported.


Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?
This book tells the harrowing story of a Mum's loss of her heroin-using son to suicide.


Not My Family, Never My Child
Filled with constructive suggestions & strategies, this book supports parents, family/whānau and friends of drug users and users themselves.


Supernormal: The Untold Story of Resilience
Clinical psychologist Dr. Meg Jay reveals the world of the "supernormal" - those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.


Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children
This book is a self-help recovery guide for parents who are powerless to stop their kids from self-destruction & how to save themselves.


Mrs D is Going Without
This book recounts the author's personal journey of going from a high-functioning heavy drinker to living without alcohol.


Get Your Loved One Sober
Get Your Loved One Sober helps family/whānau use supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment.


Māori & Alcohol: A History
This book discuses the history of Māori & alcohol from its introduction to Māori society in 19th Century and considers policy implications.


Rehabilitated
Rehabilitated is Valeria Tokoar’s raw account of insecurity, anxiety, alcohol, drugs & prostitution, & how she managed to get life on track.


Where There’s Life There Really is Hope
A Mum's first-hand account of the traumas that led to her daughter’s addiction, how they impacted her and what she learned along the way.


Dancing on a Razor’s Edge
Kiwi Mandy Whyte realised her son would never ask for help, so she 'home rehabbed' him. She is now an advocate for family-led treatment.


Clean
A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment based on cutting-edge research. David Sheff reveals how addiction really works.


Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
This bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to meth tells a raw, harrowing and hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.


Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.


The Biology of Desire
Through the stories of five addicts, a neuroscientist explains how addiction happens in the brain & what we can do to overcome it.


Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
Marc Lewis writes about his own journey to recover from addiction to become a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience.


Unbroken Brain
This book challenges the idea of addiction and addictive personalities, offering a new perspective that addiction is a learning disorder.
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