Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science -- not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention...

This quick reference guide designed for medical students, physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, residents, chiropractic physicians, physicians and physician assistants, and the independent medical examiners specialized in Family practice, Neurology, Internal Medicine, PM&R, Orthopedic Surgery, and other specialist in Musculoskeletal Medicine and Legal Medicine, as well as Attorneys. Traditionally muscle and orthopedic tests described...

Hamdy, a diabetes and weight management expert, reveals a usable and doable step-by-step 12-week plan based on the successful Why WAIT (Weight Achievement and Intensive Treatment) program he conducts at Joslin Diabetes Center. Colberg, an exercise physiologist, provides exercise plans that will help you get results-- and keep them. Together they show you how to stop fearing the scale, and provide checklists and worksheets that will keep you motivated....

Nic Sheff began drinking at eleven and got into drugs heavily but always thought that he could stop so this is his story of his life with drug addiction.