The Beaten Path: A Mainstream Guide to Understanding Addiction, Treatment & Recovery

The Beaten Path covers both secular and Christian faith-based perspectives on addiction, treatment, recovery, relapse, and relapse prevention. These perspectives are tried and tested; being considered most effective by a majority in the mainstream of this field. Complicated and difficult-to-understand principles are explained in a simple, practical and interesting way. This bold and insightful book tells it the way it is; fully explaining the well traveled path for successful recovery, while not shying away from the dangerous and powerful truths about chemical and behavioral addiction. Family members and/or concerned individuals struggling to understand addiction, the addict, and their role in the recovery process, uncover welcome answers in The Beaten Path. Seasoned recoveries also find this unique book to be thought provoking and useful.

Larry Maule, Jr. is a Certified Addictions Counselor who has worked with men, women, and adolescents as a professional addictions counselor since 1989. He organized and directed the development of Restoration Ministries of Tampa Bay Inc. in 2000. Larry has also been in personal recovery from addiction since 1984. Experiencing both sides of treatment has given Larry the practical knowledge he shares in this book.