Understanding Addiction as Self Medication Finding Hope Behind the Pain
, by Khantzian, Edward J.; Albanese, Mark J.- ISBN: 9780742561373 | 0742561372
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/18/2008
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Offers a guide to understanding additions, and describes addiction primarily as a kind of self-medication that can temporarily soothe anxiety or pain and ultimately wreaks havoc on the lives and health of the addicted. Discusses underlying reasons behind many addictions and provides a pathway to hope. For consumers and clinicians.