Recommended Resources

Addiction is Addiction book by the HUM team

ASAM Definition of Addiction (Released September 2011)

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) main website

NIDA for Teens

The Science of Addiction (a NIDA publication)

HBO Series: Addiction

The Institute for Addiction Study

Addiction and recovery.org

Alcoholics Anonymous, The Big Book Online

CSAM – Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine

ASAM – American Society of Addiction Medicine

ISAM – International Society of Addiction Medicine

Canadian Network of Substance Abuse and Allied Professionals

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

12 Step Organizations including: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Emotions Anonymous, Clutterers Anonymous, Sexaholics Anonymous, and Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous

International Drinking Guidelines 

Hazelden resources

Brene Brown’s TedX talks on shame and resiliency

The Anonymous People documentary (available on Netflix)

YouTube video by Dr. Ruth Potee explaining Addiction in the brain

The Genetics of Alcohol and Other Drug Dependence by Dick and Agrawal

See below for additional reading resources for Addiction and Recovery

• Melody Beattie’s resources
• Codependent’s Anonymous traits and characteristics
• Codependent’s Anonymous webpage
• Facing Codependence and Facing Love Addiction by Pia Mellody

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institute of Mental Health: Depression
• National Institute of Mental Health: Anxiety
• Canadian Mental Health Association: Calgary Region
• Centre for Suicide Prevention-Calgary
• Cool Family Solutions-providing opportunity for facilitated communication within families-Calgary
• See below for additional reading resources for Mental Health

• Lessons in Self-Care

• The TM program (maharishi.ca)

• American Psychological Association: Controlling Anger Before It Controls You
• Anger Management for Teens

• Calgary Womens Shelter
• Homefront Calgary
• YWCA Sheriff King
• Coalition Against Violence: Cycle of Violence

• Centre for Loss
• Canadian Mental Health Association: Grieving
• Coping with Grief and Loss

• Tips for caring for aging parents

• Occupational Health Act, Regulation and Code
• Alberta Workers Compensation Board
• Canadian Occupational Health Nurses Association
• Alberta Occupational Health Nurses Association
  

• A Teens Guide to Peer Pressure
  

• Canadian Academy of Physician Assistants (CAPA)
• American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
• Association and Membership, the Order of Military Merit (MMM)
• Alberta Occupational Health Nurses Association(AOHNA)
• University of Toronto
• Alberta College of Social Workers
• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Psychologists Association of Alberta

• Addiction is Addiction: Understanding the disease in oneself and others for a better quality of life by Raju Hajela, Sue Manning, and Paige Abbott
• The Selfish Brain by Robert DuPont
• Addictive Thinking by Abraham J. Twerski
• Author Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s books on Addiction and Recovery
• Desire, when sex meets addiction by Susan Cheever
• Facing Life by Nancy Brown
• Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies, and Secrets by Claudia Black
• Facing Codependence and Facing Love Addiction by Pia Mellody
• Codependent No More, Codependents’ Guide to the 12 Steps, and The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie
• The Enabler: When Helping Hurts the Ones You Love by Angelyn Miller
• Alcoholics Anonymous The Big Book
• Narcotics Anonymous: It Works, How and Why text
• Clean by David Sheff
• Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff
• Refuge Recovery by Noah Levine

• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
• Scattered Minds (ADHD) by Gabor Mate
• Feeling Good and The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund Bourne
• Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey (Personality typing based on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator)
• The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney
• Quiet by Susan Cain
• The Dance of Intimacy and The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
• Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine by Candace Pert

• A Day Without Pain by Mel Pohl
• Pain Recovery for Families: How to Find Balance When Someone Else’s Chronic Pain Becomes Your Problem Too by Pohl, Szabo Jr., Shiode and Hunter
• Pain Recovery: How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain by Mel Pohl