How to change your drinking
Subtitle: a harm reduction guide to alcohol
By: by Kenneth Anderson
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: HAMS Harm Reduction Network
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781453830604
Subjects: Controlled drinking; Alcoholism; Prevention; Treatment
Other titles: Harm reduction guide to alcohol
Description: "Harm reduction is the single most effective approach to drug and alcohol problems because harm reduction uses pragmatic, evidence-based strategies that work. This book is the first comprehensive compilation of harm reduction strategies aimed specifically at people who drink alcohol. Whether your goal is safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting alcohol altogether, this is the book for you. It contains a large and detailed selection of harm reduction tools and strategies which you can choose from to build your own individualized alcohol harm reduction program. There are many practical exercises to help people change their behaviors, including risk-ranking worksheets, drinking charts, goal choice worksheets, and many more. There are also innumerable practical tips from folks who 'have been there' and have turned their drinking habits around for the better. This book exemplifies the harm reduction principles of 'meeting people where they are at' and encouraging people to change in ways which they choose for themselves. This book can either be used as a self-help manual for people working on their own or by people who are participating in a harm reduction support group"--
Notes: "Preface by Alan Marlatt, introduction by Patt Denning."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / by Alan Marlatt; title: Introduction / by Patt Denning; title: Acknowledgments; title: Part I: Better is better. The nuts and bolts of harm reduction; title: Part II: How to build your own alcohol harm reduction program. The HAMS elements; title: Part III: Everything you always wanted to know about alcohol, but you got told to go to AA and not to ask; title: Part IV: Harm reduction in context; title: Appendices.