Lives Written in Sand: Addiction Awareness & Recovery Strategies. This item is unavailable.Lives Written in Sand: Addiction Awareness & Recovery Strategies

A modern history of practical medicine and psychological factors of dependency issues. Facts about conflict and human relationships. family, alcohol, and pill dependency are discussed. Additional chapters include cocaine, tactics for stopping the use of stimulants, and a broad chapter on heroin and opiate dependence among health professionals. Short chapters on eating disorders and tobacco is included. This manuscript has been written to better inform the reader of the degree of impairment, the accompanying behavioral disturbances, and the distructive impact on society. Hopefull, this manuscript will present information that is so very hard to openly discuss, and once the truth becomes obvious, options can be considered.

Thomas Byrd is an alumni of Menlo College. He received his baccalaureate degree in Health Sciences from CSU, San Jose & M.A. in Health Education from Stanford University. Professor Byrd is employed at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. He is the co-author or author of 10 books. Tom is also listed in the Marquis Book of Who's Who in the West 2000/200l. He is an All American United States Masters Swimmer, receiving this recognition after winning a national open water competition in 1998. He completed a six mile race, swimming from Capitola to Santa Cruz, CA in the Pacific Ocean. His passion is swimming; his hobbies are gardening and writing fictional short stories for children.