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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with drug & alcohol abuse
A former alcoholic turned tutelary for other wayward drinkers
explains the steps to identifying and overcoming alcohol abuse
Drawing on the author's extensive experience--both professionally
as a university lecturer in substance abuse and personally as a
former alcoholic--this work explains, with passion and
effectiveness, how a "problem drinker" can turn their life around
for the better. It shows how to tell when drinking becomes a
problem, the seriously adverse effects this can have on a problem
drinker's life and health, and how it's never too late for them to
shake free from addiction and change their lives for the better.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY
PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017
ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZE At the age
of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney.
Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with
the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As
she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her
days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky
for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life
and renew hope.
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