Alcohol Health

Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges listeners to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names—booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative “firewater.” Confronting the harmful stereotype of the “lazy, drunken Indian,” and rejecting medical, social, and psychological explanations of the roots of alcoholism, Johnson cries out for solutions, not diagnoses, and shows how alcohol continues to kill so many.

From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual". With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at 14, alcohol poisoning at 16, blacked-out sexual experience at 19, and total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at 22.

While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically grounded explanation for our love of alcohol.

Are you tired of feeling like a slave to alcohol and want control over your health and well-being? Have you tried everything to improve your drinking habits and are still looking for an effective solution? Do you want to be empowered, and discover freedom from your dependence once and for all? Utilizing the most relevant research in health and addiction, this guide combines scientific facts with compassion and offers flexible solutions that anyone can use. You can be in control of your drinking and leave this toxic relationship behind.

Whether you're sober curious, looking to stay sober, or want to stop drinking alcohol for good, this uncommon guide explores eight critical areas of life that will drastically improve when you give up alcohol.

Bob Bourne was everything a son wants to emulate—an NHL All-Star, a Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year,” a Stanley Cup champion. Justin Bourne followed in those huge footsteps, leading his teams in scoring year after year, and finally garnering an invitation to the New York Islanders’ training camp—the same team his father had played for.

Motivational Hypnotherapy is proud to introduce the incredible voices of Joel Thielke and Rachael Meddows. These two world-renowned hypnotherapists have combined their talents and years of hypnotherapy experience to create a one-of-a-kind program that will specifically help you remove negative thinking, self-doubt, and other blocks that may be holding you back from feeling truly happy and joyful and living a stress-free life.

You have the power to stop drinking without willpower and without missing out. The world-renowned, clinically proven Easyway method has helped an estimated 50 million people with their behavioral issues and addictions. It works by unraveling the cognitive brainwashing that leads you to desire the very thing that is harming you. By explaining why you feel the need to drink, and with simple step-by-step instructions to set you free from this addiction, celebrated addiction therapist Allen Carr shows you how to escape from the emotional drinking trap and enjoy a healthier, happier life.

Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict, "West Coast Director of a large Italian-American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces.

Many people have silently asked themselves why can't I drink like everyone else? Rachel Hart has spent years trying to answer these questions for herself and untangle this mystery. There is a solution - and it doesn't require anyone to wear a label for the rest of their life or admit to being powerless. In fact, the tools outlined inside will reveal just how much power there is within each and every person struggling with this issue.

This Naked Life offers 48 raw and real stories of people, who have found freedom from alcohol. In this audio, discover how Bryan went from hopeless certainty that drinking would eventually kill him, to absolute peace over the course of a single day. See how listening one book gave Jennifer total freedom after 20 years of binge drinking. Watch Becca thrive in ways she had never thought possible, all because she learned it was okay to question her relationship with alcohol before she hit rock bottom.

Why Don't You Drink Alcohol? is here to bust some serious myths about ladies and libations. It's your go-to guide for all the sober-curious women out there and a friendly reminder for ladies in sobriety about why they swapped pinot for Perrier in the first place. Penned by Sienna, an ex-actress who traded stage scripts for sobriety journals, this audiobook is a candid chronicle of her journey from living sober through Alcoholics Anonymous to living it up, sans the spirits.

A non-judgemental guide to becoming “soberish”. This audiobook helps millennials and Gen Z create a relationship with alcohol that works for them, using evidence-based tools and expert advice.

What if your best life is a sober life? Double-certified sobriety coach Christy Osborne discovered this in her own life and has helped countless clients realize the same. Now, in this highly practical guide, she brings together the psychology of habits and triggers, truth and hope from Scripture, and the science of alcohol’s effect on the body for a forty-day alcohol reset. Experience the gifts of sobriety through enhanced sleep, clearer thinking, better health, deeper connections with others, and a restored sense of well-being.

Strengthen your memory with New York Times bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard’s simple 3-step plan to protecting your brain with your diet. Could your breakfast or lunch be harming your memory? Are you missing out on the foods that could prevent Alzheimer's disease? Everyone knows good...

Don't Let Your Kids Kill You is a landmark work that dares to focus on the plight of the confused, distressed parent and not the erring child. It sets aside any preconceived ideas that parents are to blame for what is essentially a full-blown global crisis. Drawing on interviews with parents who have survived the heartbreak of kids on drugs, combined with his own experience, Charles Rubin provides practical advice on how parents can help themselves and their families by first attending to their own needs.

When Rain Hurts is the story of one mother’s quest to find a magical path of healing and forgiveness for her son, a boy so damaged by the double whammy of prenatal alcohol abuse and the stark rigors of Russian orphanage life that he was feral by the time of his adoption at age three. Bizarre behaviors, irrational thoughts, and dangerous preoccupations were the norm - no amount of love, it turns out, can untangle the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.

This book is designed for people who are sick and tired of feeling "sick and tired" and want to get back in control of their drinking. Imagine if today you could go back to a time when you could "take or leave" a drink and tomorrow you wake up with no hangover, no regrets and feeling full of energy and vitality. Picture your bank account with thousands of extra dollars in it and imagine what life would be like if you had a limitless abundance of quality time with your family and loved ones?

Alcohol is the strangest drug on planet earth! It’s the only substance that when you develop a problem with it, they blame you and not the drug. Smokers are not branded life long "smokeaholics". Do you insist that any of your friends who have successfully quit smoking may only ever refer to themselves as "recovering smokeaholics"? No, of course not, because society understands that nicotine is highly addictive and big tobacco companies are devious and narcissistic in their marketing.

In a culture where sipping "rosé all day" is seen as the epitome of relaxation, "grabbing a drink" the only way to network; and meeting at a bar the quintessential "first date", many of us are left wondering if drinking alcohol really is the only way to cultivate joy and connection in life. Jardine Libaire and Amanda Eyre Ward wanted to live spontaneous and luxurious lives, to escape the ordinary and enjoy the intoxicating. Their drinking, however, had started to numb them to the present moment instead of unlocking it.