In 1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam.
Personal narratives explore the dangers of addiction, with people describing the devastating impact their addictions had on their personal and professional lives and sharing how they overcame their addictions.
Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of addiction to nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and inhalants, as well as non-drug addictions to food, sex, and gambling, and looks at treatment options and recovery.
When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.
Presents an introduction to addictive behavior, providing an explanation of its causes, characteristics, and warning signs, including information on alcohol and drub abuse, smoking, eating disorders, self-mutilation, and more.
Describes the causes, symptoms, and treatment options for people who suffer the effects of an addictive personality; and also describes the various stages of addiction and how the disorder affects personal relationships.
Presents an examination of obsessive behavior and its evolution from a social and religious aspect of life into a psychiatric and medical problem, covering the clinical definition of the condition, the increase in obsessive-compulsive disorder diagnoses since the late seventies, and many other topics within the field.
Contains twenty-six articles in which the authors debate issues related to addiction, discussing the extent of the problem, contributing factors, treatments, and government intervention.
