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Alcohol & Addictions Resource Center 818 E. Jefferson Boulevard South Bend, in 46617 ALCOHOL & ADDICTIONS RESOURCE CENTER 818 E. JEFFERSON BOULEVARD SOUTH BEND, IN 46617 (574) 234.6024 Email: [email protected] Website www.aarcinfo.org Lending Library Book Listing 1 A A.A. Service Manual Combined with Twelve Concepts for World Service; Bill W. (2002- 2003/1987-1988/1983-84 About Alcohol & Other Drugs; FYI Series About Methodone; the Lindesmith Center – Drug Policy Foundation Addiction; Alcohol Policy and the Public Good: An International Debate; Edited by Griffith Edwards Addiction & Grace; Gerald G. May, M.D. Addiction Process, The - from enabling to intervention; Helena Roche Addiction to Perfection; Marion Woodman Ad*dic*tion*ary; Jan R. Wilson & Judith Wilson Addictive Behaviors, The; Howard Shaffer, Ph.D., Barry Stimmel, M.D. Addictive Organization, The – Why We Overwork Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss and Perpetuate Sick Organizations; Anne Wilson Schaef and Diane Fassel Addictive Thinking – Understanding Self-Deception; Abraham Twerski, M.D. (2 copies) Adolescent Peer Pressure: Theory, Correlates and Program Implications for Drug Abuse Prevention; U. S. Department of Health & Human Services (2 copies) Adult Children of Alcoholics; Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D. (2 copies) Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome, The; Wayne Kritsbeg Adventure of Sobriety, The; David A Stewart Afraid to Live/Afraid to Die; Pat O. (2 copies) AIDS: The Drug & Alcohol Connection; Larry Siegel, M.D., Milan Korcok Alateen, Hope for Children of Alcoholics; Alanon (3 copies) Alcohol – A Family Affair; John E. Keller Alcohol and Birth Defects: the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Related Disorders; US Department of Health & Human Services Alcohol - Cradle to Grave; Newhouse, Eric, Hazelden 2 Alcohol is a Drug, Too; David Wilmes Alcohol: Its Use, Abuse & Therapy; Gerald Schomp Alcohol, Pregnancy and the Developing Child; Edited by Hans-Ludwig Spohr and Hans-Christoph Steinhausen Alcohol Problems & Alcoholism; James Royce Alcohol Problems in Intimate Relationships: Identification and Intervention – A guide For Marriage and Family Therapists; NIAAA Alcohol: Teenage Drinking; Alan R. Lang, Ph.D. Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs May Harm the Unborn; US Dept of Health & Human Services (2 copies) Alcohol: What it is, What it Does; Judith Seixas Alcoholic in Your Life, The; Jo Coudert Alcoholic Woman, The; Benjamin Karpman, M.D. Alcoholics Anonymous, Third Edition (5 copies) **Also on audio cassettes Alcoholism and Related Problems – Issues for the America Public; Louis Jolyon West, M.D. Alcoholism – The Exposed Family; Lewis Presnall (2 copies) A Little About Alcohol; Marsha Kenney (children’s book) An American Woman and Alcohol; Patricia Kent (2 copies) Amphetamines & Other Stimulants; Lawrence Clayton, Ph.D. An Elephant in the Living Room; Marion H. Typpo, Ph.D., and Jill M. Hastings, Ph.D. (for children – leader’s guide) Another Chance; Sharon Wegscheider Are You Dying for a Drink? Laurel Graeber Art of Feeling Good, The; David A. Stewart, Ph.D. (2 copies) Art of Loving, The; Erich Fromm 3 As Bill Sees It; AA World Service (2 copies) B Basic Course in Manual Communication, A; Terrence J. O’Rourke Be the Best You Can Be; Goodwill, Inc. Beautiful Boy; David Sheff (2 copies) Becoming Your Own Parent; Dennis Wholey Beginning a Men’s Group; Serendipity House Beginning to Heal; Ellen Bass & Laura Davis Behind the 8-Ball; a Guide for Families of Gamblers; Berman, Linda and Mary-Ellen Siegel Behind the Veil of Silence; Beverly Rainbolt & Michael Greene (2 copies) Betty – A Glad Awakening; Betty Ford with Chris Chase Betty Ford Center, The, Book of Answers; James West, M.D., F.A.C.S. Beyond Anger; Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J. Beyond Codependency – and Getting Better All the Time; Melody Beattie Beyond Codependency – and Getting Better All the Time; Melody Beattie BOOK ON TAPE Beyond the Influence; Katherine Ketcham & William F. Asbury (2 copies) Bill W; Robert Thomsen Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann, A; Sally Brown and David R. Brown (2 copies) Blueprint for Progress; Alanon’s Fourth Step Inventory (2 copies) Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The; Alan W. Watts Booze Battle, The; Ruth Maxwell (2 copies) 4 Bradshaw On: The Family; John Bradshaw Brown Bottle, The; Penny Jones Broken Bottles Broken Dreams – Understanding and Helping the Children of Alcoholics; Charles Deutsch Broken Cord, The; Michael Dorris C Called to Be Friends; Paula Ripple Came To Believe; AA World Service (2 copies) Caring for Kids; Riley Hospital for Children Cat Who Drank Too Much, The; LeClair Bissell, M.D., and Richard Watherwax (3 copies) (children’s book) CESAR FAX Annual Volume 2009 Chalk Talks on Alcohol; Fr. Joseph C. Martin (2 copies) Challenge 2000; Shared Visions; University of Notre Dame Chasing the High; Kyle Keegan with Howard B. Moss, M.D. Chemical People, The; Edited by Lloyd Kaiser Children at the Front; CWLA North American Commission on Chemical Dependency and Child Welfare Children of the Healer – the Story of Dr. Bob’s Kids; Bob Smith and Sue Smith Windows Children with Prenatal Alcohol and/or Other Drug Exposure: Weighing the Risks of Adoption; Susan B. Edelstein Children with Prenatal Drug Exposure; Lynette S. Chandler and Shelly J. Lane, Editors Choices & Consequences; Dick Schaefer Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn’t Tell You; Kristine Napier 5 Cocaine: The Great White Plague; Gabriel Nahas Codependent No More; Melody Beattie Codependents’ Guide to the Twelve Steps; Beattie, Melody Co-Dependent Parent, The; Barbara Cottman Becnel (2 copies) Competency Assessment Methods – History and State of the Art; Lyle M. Spencer, Jr., Ph.D., David C. McClelland, Ph.D., Signe Spencer Consumption & Consequences of Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs in St. Joseph County 2009; A Local Epidemiological Profile, The; Healthy Communities Initiatives Coping with Drinking & Driving; Janet Grosshndler Courage to Change, The; Dennis Wholey Counselling People on Prescribed Drugs; Diane Hammersley Cross Addiction; Marlys Johnson Cultural Competence for Evaluators; OSAP D Dance of Anger; Harriett Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D. Dance of Deception, The: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women’s Lives; Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D. Dangerous Drugs; Carol Falkowski Dangerous Pleasure, A; Geraldine Youcha (2 copies) Dark Night of Recovery, The; Edward Bear David Kopay Story, The; David Kopay & Perry Deane Young Day at a Time, A; CompCare Publications Dear Doc: A noted authority answers your questions on drinking and drugs; Joseph A. Pursch, M.D. Delirium Tremens – Stories of Suffering and Transcendence; Ignacio Solares 6 Designer Drugs; Lawrence Clayton, Ph.D. Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage, The; Alanon (2 copies) Dinosaur Brains; Albert Bernstein & Sydney Craft Rozen Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers; A A World Service Don’t Leave it to Chance; Edward Federman, Ph.D., Charles Drebing, Ph.D., Christopher Krebs, M.A. Drinking…a Love Story; Caroline Knapp Drinking from a Dry Well; Thomas H. Green Drinking Man, The; David McClelland, William Davis, Eric Wanner Drop the Rock – Removing Character Defects; Bill Pittman, Todd Weber Drugs & Codependency; Mary Price Lee and Richard Lee Drugs & Depression; Beth Wilkinson Drugs and Our World; Gretchen Super (children’s book) Drugs & Sports; Rodney G. Peck Drugs & Stress; M. Walter Buckalew, Jr. Drugs & Your Friends; Sue Hurwitz and Nancy Schniderman Drugs from A to Z; Richard R. Lingeman Dual Disorders; Dennis Daley, Howard Moss, Frances Campbell (2 copies) Dudley; Jackie Endraske (children’s book) E Effects of Drugs on the Fetus and Nursing Infant, The; J. M. Friedman, MD, Ph.D., Janine E. Polifka, Ph.D. 7 Emotional Blackmail; Susan Forward, Ph.D., with Donna Frazier Ethics for Addiction Professionals; LeClair Bissell, M.D., and James E. Royce, Ph.D. Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovery Addicts; Beverly Conyers F Factory Owner & the Convict, The; Michiana Regional AA Conference--NOT AVAILABLE FOR OUTSIDE LOAN Facts About Drugs & Alcohol, The; Mark Gold, M.D. (4 copies) Fail-Safe Parenting; J. Stuart Rahrer Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway; Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – a Guide for Families and Communities; Ann Streissguth Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Effects – Strategies for Professionals; Diane Malbin, MSW Fifty-seven Reasons Not to Light Up; M.M. Kirsch Find and Use Your Inner Power; Emmet Fox Finding Common Ground; Virginia Jones, M.D., and Ellen Hutchins, MSW Finding the Joy in Today; Sefra Kobrin Pitzele (2 copies) First Steps – Alanon…35 years of Beginnings Focus Your Day; Kenneth E. Grabner, C.S.C. For Teenagers Living With a Parent Who Abuses Alcohol/Drugs; Edith Lynn Hornik- Beer (2 copies) Francesca, Baby; Joan L. Oppenheimer Free of the Shadows; Caren Adams, M.A., Jennifer Fay, M.A. From Anger to Forgiveness; Earnie Larsen with Carol Larsen Hegarty 8 From Binge to Blackout – a Mother and Son Struggle with Teen Drinking; Chris Volkmann and Toren Volkmann From Denial to Recovery; Lawrence Metzger From Survival to Recovery – Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home; Alanon Fully Human Fully Alive; John Powell Further Along the Road Less Traveled; M. Scott Peck, M.D. G Games Alcoholics Play; Claude Steiner, Ph.D. Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps, A; Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. (2 copies) Get Your Loved One Sober; Meyers, Ph.D., Robert/ Brenda L. Wolfe, Ph.D. Getting Better – Inside AA; Nan Robertson Getting Them Sober - Volume 1; Toby Rice Drews (3 copies) Getting Them Sober – Volume 2; Toby Rice Drews Getting Them Sober - Volume 3; Toby Rice Drews Getting Through to People; Jesse S. Nirenberg, Ph.D. Ghost in the Closet, A; Is There An Alcoholic Hiding? Dale Mitchel God is For the Alcoholic; Jerry G. Dunn Good-Bye to Guilt; Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. (2 copies) Good Food for a Sober Life; Jack Mumey and Ann S. Hatcher Grateful Not Smug; Mike L. Guide to Family Intervention, A; Mary Bratton 9 H Handbook of Prescription Drugs; Richard Burack, Ph.D. Handle with Care – Helping Children Prenatally Exposed to Drugs and Alcohol; Sylvia Fernandez Villarreal, MD, Lora-Ellen McKinney, PhD, Marcia Quackenbush, MS, MFCC (2 copies) Happy Hours - Alcohol in a Woman's Life; Jersild, Devon Harder They Fall, The; Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill Harmfully Involved; William O.
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