Dr. Mooney and Catherine Dold recently had a great talk with Rick Kogan on his WGN Radio (Chicago) show, After Hours With Rick Kogan.
Rick chatted with us for 45 minutes about the face of addiction today, the gift of recovery, and what’s in The Recovery Book. He called it a “remarkable book that could probably save your life.”
Give a listen over at WGN Radio – After Hours with Rick Kogan.
We are thrilled to announce that The Recovery Book just won an Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors!
Today is the official release of The Recovery Book! Coauthors Al J. Mooney, MD, Catherine Dold and Howard Eisenberg all hope that it helps many people find a lifetime of sobriety and peace.
From Workman Publishing:
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A classic. Read it. Use it. It can help guide you step by step into the bright light of the world of recovery.” —from the Foreword by Harry Haroutunian, M.D., Physician Director, Betty Ford Center
Hope, support, and a clear road map for the more than 23 million Americans with substance addiction
THE RECOVERY BOOK Answers to All Your Questions about Addiction and Alcoholism and Finding Health and Happiness in Sobriety By Al J. Mooney, M.D., Catherine Dold, and Howard Eisenberg
“Many people are now finally recognizing that addiction to alcohol and other drugs is a terrible disease. Heroin and prescription … Read more...
~ by Howard Eisenberg ~
Well, not exactly. That’s just a teaser headline to get you to read the next few paragraphs.
There’ll be no TV, but plenty of sobriety reality in The Recovery Book revise we’re working on, as readers of the first book become contributors to the second. How will that work? Here’s a for-instance.
Jennifer B., fresh out of recovery at Willingway and a long stay at its women’s halfway house, needed surgery on both hips and her spine. What she – and Dr. Al – feared most was that an anesthesiologist (or hospital RNs) unfamiliar with addiction recovery would inadvertently throw her into relapse by administering the very drugs that had addicted her in the first place.
As Dr. Al tells people in recovery, “No matter how far along in recovery you are, having surgery means you are back in the Red Zone, and that means … Read more...
~ by Howard Eisenberg ~
It could be said (so I’ll say it) that in 1991 when my late (and amazing) wife Arlene and I visited Willingway Hospital in Statesboro, Georgia, for the first time that The Recovery Book was an accident waiting to happen. But at the time, we sure didn’t expect it to happen.
We were there to write a magazine piece about Dr. John Mooney, one of those rare MDs who was willing to admit that he was an addict and an alcoholic. Not that he drank or drugged anymore. Yes, he’d been locked up for a couple of years in Lexington Prison when the government figured out he’d been writing an army’s worth of drug Rx’s for his personal use. But that had been a dozen years earlier, and even when he was drinking, patients said they’d rather be operated on by Dr. John than any … Read more...
