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Loved One In Treatment? Now What! by Lisa Frederiksen (KLJ Publishing 2010)  List price: $14.95   ISBN: 9780981684451

"A thoughtful, well-research, and highly accessible review of the neurobiology of addiction. Lisa Frederiksen captures this exciting and developing field of science with calirty, compassion, and hope." Catherine M. Bitler, Ph.D., FACN

“Loved One In Treatment? Now What! is an outstanding, fact-filled, clear, easy-to-read and understand book aimed at helping friends and family, as well as the medical community, comprehend and approach one of the most baffling conditions that we face today.” Stan Fischman, M.D., Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

“Revolutionary…science-based answers, a checklist of next steps – a must read for anyone dealing with a loved one’s addiction.” Caroll Fowler, M.A., MFT, Addiction Specialist

“…what good is the latest research if it can’t be put to good use? This is one of the few practical guides to recovery tailored specifically for the family – highly recommended!” Gavin DeFreese, discoveringalcoholic.com

Loved One In Treatment? Now What! offers the first-of-its-kind handbook for family members and friends navigating the path of a loved one’s substance abuse, addiction, treatment and recovery. By combining the most current brain and addiction-related research with the author’s 40 years experience of coping with family alcoholism and alcohol abuse, this book gives readers the answers they are looking for and helps to ease the pain and confusion that accompany a loved one’s destructive behavior. What makes Frederiksen’s book especially unique is her explanation of secondhand drinking/drugging (SHDD), namely the impact that one person’s substance misuse can have on others – how it happens, how it can be reversed and how family members and friends can live productive lives, regardless of what their loved one does. Using easy-to-understand explanations of the latest research and graphically depicting the effect of substance misuse on the brain (thanks to advances in brain imaging technologies),  Loved One In Treatment? Now What! answers additional questions, such as: How can addiction be a brain disease?  What causes addiction? Why do some people become addicts/alcoholics and others do not? What is "effective" treatment? Is there a difference between treatment and recovery? Who among family members and friends can help a loved one get treatment? Or can they? What does coping with a loved one's addiction do to family members and friends, and what is available to help them?

Seven Myths That Can Kill... by Lisa Frederiksen List Price: $2.95  ISBN: 978-0-9816844-9-9

...can kill? Yes. Kill. As in dead bodies, neural network opportunities, friendships, dreams, job or school prospects, fun, driving privileges, freedom, reproductive control -- each a form of death that centers around seven generally accepted myths about drinking alcohol. A short 20-page booklet that packs a great deal of science into layman's terms and an effective message.

If You Loved Me, You’d Stop! What You Really Need To Know When Your Loved One Drinks Too Much by Lisa Frederiksen (KLJ Publishing 2009)  List price: $11.95   ISBN: 978-0-9816844-0-6

"You have made a valuable contribution to the literature and have done so with clarity, credibility and perhaps most importantly, with well founded ‘hopefulness’. You have taken a complex and frightening topic and made the content approachable and the message realistic and reassuring. I will not hesitate to recommend this book to my patients who are struggling with the insanity that underlies so many pain driven relationships where alcoholism and co-dependency are the ‘demons in hiding’. Also appreciated the distinction between reacting and responding and anchoring that to Brain functioning and Cognitive Re-structuring and Repair. Job Well Done!!” Lance McDonald, Ed.D. Licensed Psychologist
             
“. . . It answers so many questions…”  Caroll Fowler, M.A., MFT, Retired Director of the Family Program at The Sequoia Center.

“… a must-read for anyone whose life has been touched by alcoholism. You’ll never see this addiction in the same light again!” Beth Wilson, Integrative Life Coach and best-selling author, He’s Just No Good For Me: A Guide to Leaving Destructive Relationships.

“If You Loved Me, You’d Stop!” does not pretend to have all the answers. Rather, its focus is to help you think about the issues involved when someone you love has a problem with alcohol....” Cathy Fleischman, RN, MSN

“Neither in my practice nor my own search for answers about alcoholism, excessive drinking and codependency have I found a book like this…” Cherie Zappas Tannenbaum, Nurse Practitioner

If You Loved Me, You’d Stop! What You Really Need To Know When Your Loved One Drinks Too Much combines the most current brain research on alcoholism and alcohol abuse with Lisa Frederiksen’s decades-long experience in dealing with these family problems. By explaining this research from the perspective of someone who has personally survived the ravages of a loved one’s drinking, Ms. Frederiksen offers fresh hope for the more than 50 percent of Americans (and the one in four children) who have a family member with a drinking problem. Though it is a slim volume at less than 120 pages, this book nevertheless addresses a host of issues surrounding alcoholism and alcohol abuse, including co-addictions, DUIs (DWIs), underage drinking, dual diagnosis, codependency, and, importantly, the characteristics that distinguish alcoholism from alcohol abuse (excessive drinking). The book also contains numerous appendices containing references and suggestions for each issue addressed in the book.

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