The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction

Return to a Life Free of Addiction

Your life may have been turned upside down and inside out by addiction, but if you’re reading this, you’ve already taken the first step to recovery: admission of the problem.

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction offers proven natural solutions for addiction to anything from alcohol and cigarettes to drugs, painkillers, sex, gambling, food, and more. An approach to recovery that is based on natural medicine can reverse addictive behaviors and return you to a productive life free from addiction.

Accomplished health journalist Stephanie Marohn presents the work of eight prominent health practitioners whose array of addiction-reversing therapies include amino acid therapy, neutrotransmitter restoration, allergy elimination, herbal medicine, flower essence therapy, heavy metal detoxification, psychospiritual work, and others.

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction gives you the tools to uncover the hidden factors that contribute to addiction such as genetic vulnerability, stress, allergies, nutritional and hormonal imbalances. You’ll read what recovering addicts have to say—in their own words—on the natural medicine approaches that have changed their lives for the better. Most important, The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction gives you the necessary resources to get beyond merely coping, to reach a real recovery that lasts a lifetime.

Book Excerpt

Chapter One