Health Check: What Makes it So Hard to Quit Drugs?
A look at why reducing use, getting off or staying off can be difficult for those dependent on alcohol and/or other drugs.
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Please Hear What I’m Not Saying
A poem about the masks we wear to pretend we are doing okay, when really what we need is someone to see beneath the mask.
Codependency is a Toxic Myth in Addiction Recovery
Codependency has been thought of as a disease, people enabling loved ones to continue to use substances. But its tenets are not supported.
Alcohol and Intimate Partner Relationships: Research Study
This report focuses on the tensions, harms, and negative effects drinking can have on a relationship, and the support available.
Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?
This book tells the harrowing story of a Mum's loss of her heroin-using son to suicide.
Not My Family, Never My Child
Filled with constructive suggestions & strategies, this book supports parents, family/whānau and friends of drug users and users themselves.
Supernormal: The Untold Story of Resilience
Clinical psychologist Dr. Meg Jay reveals the world of the "supernormal" - those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.
Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children
This book is a self-help recovery guide for parents who are powerless to stop their kids from self-destruction & how to save themselves.
Mrs D is Going Without
This book recounts the author's personal journey of going from a high-functioning heavy drinker to living without alcohol.
Get Your Loved One Sober
Get Your Loved One Sober helps family/whānau use supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment.
Māori & Alcohol: A History
This book discuses the history of Māori & alcohol from its introduction to Māori society in 19th Century and considers policy implications.
Issues of Tobacco, Alcohol, and other Drug Abuse for Māori
This report looks at legislation to understand how the Crown has addressed issues of tobacco, alcohol & other drug-related harm to Māori.
Rehabilitated
Rehabilitated is Valeria Tokoar’s raw account of insecurity, anxiety, alcohol, drugs & prostitution, & how she managed to get life on track.
Where There’s Life There Really is Hope
A Mum's first-hand account of the traumas that led to her daughter’s addiction, how they impacted her and what she learned along the way.
Dancing on a Razor’s Edge
Kiwi Mandy Whyte realised her son would never ask for help, so she 'home rehabbed' him. She is now an advocate for family-led treatment.
Clean
A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment based on cutting-edge research. David Sheff reveals how addiction really works.
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
This bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to meth tells a raw, harrowing and hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.
Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
The Biology of Desire
Through the stories of five addicts, a neuroscientist explains how addiction happens in the brain & what we can do to overcome it.
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
Marc Lewis writes about his own journey to recover from addiction to become a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience.
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