Mastering the Addicted Brain (Paperback)

Walter Ling MD

ISBN 10: 1608685004 / ISBN 13: 9781608685004

Published by New World Library, Novato, CA, 2017

About this Item

Paperback. You are in a nightmare that turned out to be reality; you desperately want to get out of it alive to start over. This is that kind of a book. It is about getting off and staying off drugs and getting a new start in life, but what it offers will benefit anyone in search of a fulfilling life with meaning. Based on the best scientific evidence, the book makes clear how drug addiction - taking drugs and acting like an addict - arises from the addicted brain altered and diseased by repeated drug exposure and by incorporating drug experience and memories into that part of our brain outside our consciousness, making it impossible for the addict not to not use drugs. It's an extreme take-over so that using drugs becomes the only thing the addicted brain concerns itself with. The book explains how this happened and offers step-by-step guidance on how to undo the process and start over. It is like someone coming alongside the lost traveler, pointing out where the traveler went off track and got lost, and guiding the traveler back on track to the intended journey. It does all this without finding fault with the traveler; just tell it like it is. What really happens when you get lost and how to get out alive. Straight talk about addiction and recovery from an internationally renowned neuroscientist, addiction specialist, and psychiatrist Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mastering the Addicted Brain (Paperback)
• Publisher: New World Library, Novato, CA
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608685004
• ISBN 13: 9781608685004
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

For anyone trying to overcome an addiction, living with someone with an addiction, or helping someone with an addiction

As most drug and alcohol addicts eventually realize, good intentions alone aren’t enough to break destructive habits. However, addiction can be managed once its true nature is understood. This simple yet profound guidebook takes you step-by-step through the process of building a life after addiction by adopting new behaviors that create lasting change. An internationally renowned psychiatrist, neurologist, and addiction specialist, Dr. Walter Ling has worked with thousands of addicts, their loved ones, and fellow clinicians. His no-nonsense, no-judgment approach, which he calls the “neuroscience of common sense,” advocates holistic methods to prevent relapse and establish new patterns to create a sustainable, meaningful life.

About the Author

Board-certified both in neurology and in psychiatry by the American Board of Medical Specialties, Walter Ling MD is a neuro-psychiatrist in the truest sense. For over five decades he has enjoyed a successful career in research and in clinical practice, consistently listed in the Best Doctors in American, Best Doctors in the West, and Best Doctors in Los Angeles. He has been a leader in developing science-based addiction treatment since the Vietnam War heroin epidemic when President Richard Nixon established the White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, forerunner of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. His numerous clinical trials through the years have contributed pivotal data to the Food and Drugs Administration’s approval of all three currently available medications used in Medication Assisted treatment ―methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone.

Acknowledged and respected nationally and internationally as clinician, researcher, and teacher, Dr. Ling has served as consultant on narcotic affairs to the US Department of State, the World Health Organization, and United Nation’s Office of Drug Control. For the last two decades, he led UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, one of the foremost research and training organization in drug abuse in the United States and worldwide that has provided extensive drug abuse training to countries in Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Dr. Ling is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at UCLA and he lives in Los Angeles.