The Freedom Model for Addictions - by Steven Slate & Mark W Scheeren & Michelle L Dunbar (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Freedom Model is a new and revolutionary way at looking into how one can move beyond addiction. The Freedom Model empowers you to achieve permanent success for your substance use problems. Freedom from addiction is knowing you can choose any path for yourself and you are not trapped in lifelong recovery or addiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Do you want an addiction - a lifelong diagnosis - or do you want to see yourself as having a habit that you can solve completely? Your answer tells you if </strong><em>The Freedom Model for Addictions</em><strong> is the answer you have been looking for.</strong></p><p><em>The Freedom Model</em> debunks the addiction disease concept as well as the idea that "recovery" is needed after you've decided to abstain or moderate your use. Much of the content within the book may surprise you, maybe even shock you. For example: </p> <ul> <li>Did you know addiction IS NOT a disease?</li> <li>Did you know the brain disease theory is not based on sound science and is actually a myth?</li> <li>Did you know that addictions are habits, just like many other habits, and that as such are quite easy to break once you know the facts?</li> <li>Does your gut tell you that treatment is just another money grab from those who are vulnerable, and that something is drastically wrong with the rehab industry as a whole?</li> </ul> <p>If so, you'd be right - rehabs don't work, and <em>The Freedom Model</em> tells you exactly why and how this Western cultural institution came to gain such power over people's lives. For those immersed in the 12 step culture or in the rehab culture, this book provides a path out of those institutions, and into a much more empowered state of mind.</p> <p>Our experience of researching drug and alcohol use and helping thousands with these issues for more than 30 years tells us people desire to be completely free from addiction. They also want to be free from the idea of being "in recovery" just as much. Neither of these options: addiction or recovery - have held great favor with the masses. In fact, the vast majority of people with drug and alcohol problems (more than 90%) don't go to treatment nor do they enter the subculture of "recovery." They simply move past their addictions, and they do so without any treatment whatsoever. Did you know that? This is the great untold story in treatment circles, but one we unearth for your benefit. This fact alone demonstrates just how normal it is to break habits that we no longer want in our lives. Let's face it, people desire freedom; freedom to choose their own direction; freedom to move past habits that have them feeling trapped and in pain; freedom from the addict and alcoholic identity; freedom from the limits of 12 step culture and the drug and alcohol rehabilitation industry; freedom to be happier; freedom to move on past the struggles and challenges of life<em>. The Freedom Model</em> guides the reader on this path by offering the opposite of the treatment industry's empty promises - it offers <em>real freedom!</em></p> <p><em>The Freedom Model</em> is an approach that <em>de</em>constructs the construct of addiction and recovery and all that surrounds these beliefs. By doing so, you can be completely free to move on in your life without those constructs holding you back and keeping you needlessly trapped in an endless addiction/recovery/addiction cycle. <em>The Freedom Model</em> renders addiction and recovery as completely obsolete and unnecessary in both your personal life and as cultural constructs that keep the masses blind to the solutions that exist within the individual. While The Freedom Model is a book, it is the research and the message contained on those pages that are the real solution to an individual's struggles with drugs and alcohol.</p> <p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Steven Slate, Mark Scheeren, and Michelle Dunbar have created an indispensable guide through the labyrinth of claims about the nature of addiction to explain how this understanding leads to resolution of addiction and to overcoming it. Indeed, their thoroughly grounded scientific exploration of the "meaning of addiction" IS the basis for such personal resolution. To know that your enemy is not only your addiction, but, more importantly, how you think of it, is the key to freedom from addiction. And no volume in the world can put you in a better position for this resolution than The Freedom Model.</p><p><strong>STANTON PEELE, PhD Author of Love and Addiction and Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control and creator of the on-line Life Process Program </strong></p><p>The Freedom Model vividly operationalizes the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." In The Freedom Model, the things you look at are you, me, and our fundamental ability to make willful, constructive choices and changes in our personal lives. Utilizing the power of free will in the pursuit of happiness, we actively shape our destiny. We welcome adaptive changes in our search for new and more promising ways to effectively engage in the world around us. Beyond powerlessness, mindless addiction, and extrinsic influences, we seek an internal locus of control and a life made from the stuff of our own choices. It is our opportunity to define what is right for ourselves, knowing this definition may not find support from others. In The Freedom Model, use and abuse of alcohol and drugs allows for three basic options: heavy substance use, adjusted substance use, and total abstinence. In reality, these options have always been there and it is our right to choose the alternative best suited to our own, self-defined vision of happiness. We decide how we wish to live our life and benefit when our choices derive from our voice within. Would we want it any other way?</p><p><strong>REAUME CARROLL MULRY, PhD</strong> <strong>Clinical and Sport Psychologist</strong></p><br>
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