compulsive behavior

Combines memoir and research to explore the truth and myths around addiction and recovery. Provides evidence against the ideas of "broken brains" and "addictive personalities" to argue that addictions are types of learning disorders. Discusses the effects of history, timing, family, peers, culture, and chemicals on illness, treatment, and recovery.

Examines the brain science behind addiction, and highlights tips and strategies for a lifelong treatment plan to overcome the disease.

"At the family cabin by the lake where his grandfather died two years ago, eleven-year-old Cooper Cameron spends the summer trying to rid himself of the rituals that allow him to cope with his grief and fear"--Provided by publisher.

People are finding innumerable ways to entertain themselves online. Many of these options are enjoyable and even rewarding but concerns about violence, addiction, and isolation also exist.

Reliance on digital technology becomes a problem when a pleasurable, relatively harmless and even beneficial activity turns into an addictive behavior. The scope of this growing problem, the causes, the consequences, and efforts to address it are discussed.

Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.