Can I Keep Drinking?: How You Can Decide When Enough is Enough - Softcover

Turner LCSW LSATP, Cyndi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1630479896 ISBN 13: 9781630479893

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Can I Keep Drinking? How You Can Decide When Enough is Enough is for the 90-million-plus people who struggle with alcohol in the United States. Most will avoid getting help for fear of being labeled an alcoholic, forced into treatment, made to attend 12-step meetings, and have to stop drinking completely. Only about 6 percent of the population is alcoholic yet more than 80 percent of treatment programs require total abstinence from alcohol. Cyndi Turner challenges this traditional belief and teaches you how to have a better relationship with alcohol.

As if you and Cyndi were sitting in her office, she provides you with easy-to-follow tools, checklists, and quizzes to guide you through the process of answering the crucial question: can I keep drinking? Included throughout are experiences of people who have struggled with drinking. The “How Do I Know If I Can Keep Drinking? Quiz” gives you positive and negative predictors for whether you are a candidate for moderate drinking and prepares you to develop and implement a Moderate Drinking Plan.

Take the quiz and get the tools to get balance back in your life!

About this title

About the Author

Cyndi Turner is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed substance abuse treatment practitioner with more than twenty years of field experience. She cofounded and is the clinical director of Insight Into Action Therapy, a private outpatient therapy practice with two offices in northern Virginia. She co-developed and facilitates the Dual Diagnosis Recovery Program©. Local courts have qualified her as an expert witness, and the National Football League Program for Substances of Abuse has vetted her to provide therapy to their players.

Cyndi is willing to challenge the old-school belief that all problem drinkers must be alcoholics who need to quit drinking forever. She is a Moderation Management-friendly therapist and is Get SMART FAST certified. She lives in northern Virginia and loves anything to do with sun, sand, beaches, or boats.

Review

The dominant US perspective about drinking problems--thatabstinence is the only genuine solution--gets a thorough re-examinationin Can I Keep Drinking? If you're looking for a fresh and evidence-basedperspective on drinking problems and ways to change them, everythingyou need to know is here.
Tom Horvath, Ph.D., ABPP, President, Practical RecoveryAuthor: Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate:A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions

Can I Keep Drinking? is a fresh voice in the emerging field ofmoderation treatment programs, which claim that abstinence-onlyapproaches to problem drinking represent a "one size fits all" that clearlydo not fit all drinkers. This book comes alongside the reader who isbrave enough to ask the honest question Can I keep drinking? and offerspractical, real-world answers that will guide them into having a healthierrelationship with alcohol, regardless of where they fall on the spectrum.
Gabrielle Glaser, Author: Her Best-Kept Secret:Why Women Drink--And How They Can Regain Control

When someone faces the notion that they may have an alcoholproblem for the first time, it is almost impossible to know where tobegin. Can I Keep Drinking? offers a practical, thorough, easy-to-readroadmap for addressing this issue.
Kevin P. Hill, MD, MHS,Addiction Psychiatrist, Clinical ResearcherAuthor: Marijuana: The Unbiased Truthabout the World's Most Popular Weed

Cyndi Turner explains the foundations of moderate drinkingempathetically and intelligently. This book is an excellent addition tothe harm reduction canon, one that will certainly help readers navigatea healthier relationship with alcohol.
Kelsey Osgood, Moderation Management facilitatorAuthor: How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia 

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1630479896
• ISBN 13: 9781630479893
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200