The number of addicts who become addicted is exponentially increasing. This is a global problem that requires an explanation on which relative prevention and intervention strategies can be based. TWO, the first book in a trilogy about addiction, accomplishes this by providing an evidence-based psychosocial explanation of how addicts are created and how this can be avoided.
Finding purpose and Sally Survives Her Brief, Nasty Dance with Psychiatry is the second book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. The character Sally is an addict who struggles with substance abuse. Her story delves into the dark realm of how addicts struggling with abstinence are inadvertently intoxicated when a psychiatrist prescribed drugs to help her cope with the underlying problems her substance abuse hid by using. There are dangers when dancing with biological psychiatry. The prescribed drugs are extensively explored in this volume. While some pay with their lives for the dance, others like Sally get off the dance floor to live another day and discover an altogether different life. Abstinent, the addict finds purpose and meaning in their life as they start to explore the gifts of humanity they have been given. Commenting on the story is longtime therapist, Dr. Alexander Polgar.
This second book, of four, in a trilogy about substance abuse tells the story, in the voice of addicted addict Sally, of the challenging journey to getting and staying abstinent from all intoxicants. The message is, that the journey is not easy and that there are several land mines along the way. The first purpose of this tale, therefore, is to warn people like Sally, and those who care about them, of the dangers, and then prepare them to manage successfully this difficult, but extremely rewarding process. The second purpose is to convey that the potential with which Sally, indeed each of us, is born, can only be activated when specific environmental conditions are present, including but certainly not limited to, getting, and staying, sober.