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    Addiction Rescue: The NO-BS Guide to Recovery
    Addiction Rescue: The NO-BS Guide to Recovery
    Addiction Rescue: The NO-BS Guide to Recovery
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    Addiction Rescue: The NO-BS Guide to Recovery

    By David Marion and Dana Golden

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    David Marion has been addicted to everything from Rice Krispie bars to Heroin, hookers to slot machines. He made tens of millions of dollars and gambled it all away. He lost his only wife to divorce, his two daughters for a time, and his extremely successful brokerage firm to bankruptcy. And eventually, he lost his freedom, too, when he was indicted and sentenced to five years in federal prison for mail fraud and money laundering, all because of his addictions.

    Through these experiences, David has become an expert in addiction and recovery and now spends his time as a Recovery Coach, Professional Interventionist, and Public Speaker. He now brings that expertise to a wider audience with his first book, Addiction Rescue; The NO-BS Guide to Recovery.


    Addiction or Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a disease of the body mind and spirit and Addiction Rescue is the one, all-inclusive book with the how-to's to restore all three areas of life. As the chapters progress, the reader sees how addiction plays out from start, to destruction, to recovery and through David's 5-Action process, walks the reader through attaining and maintaining recovery, covering absolutely everything needed to do so.

    In Addiction Rescue; The NO-BS Guide to Recovery, there is a perfect blend of David's authentic and raw story, enlightening facts and wisdom, along with advice and tools for anyone suffering from an addiction of any kind or anyone affected by someone else's addiction.

    This book shows what to look for and what to avoid in getting out of addictive behavior and into recovery. There are rules that addiction and recovery require and they are laid out in list form for an easy to understand, comprehensive guide. There are Tear-Out Sheets at the end of the book so the reader can easily refer to these rules on a regular basis. And, there are also tear-out sheets sighting the excuses addicts use to stay stuck, the warning signs to relapse, and how to disrupt obsessive thinking. These are essential tools to stay on track and keep in check.

    With the opioid epidemic that faces our country, taking 198 lives a day, 210 million people suffering from internet and social media addiction, 6-8% of the population addicted to sex, 2.6% of the population suffering from gambling addiction, and the plethora of other addictive distractions out there, there's never been a more pertinent time in history for this book. Substance use disorder doesn't discriminate, it affects people of all ages and walks of life and Addiction Rescue; The NO-BS Guide to Recovery is an absolute must for an addicted nation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 7, 2019
    ISBN9781543991130
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      Addiction Rescue - David Marion

      Copyright © 2019

      ISBN: 978-1-54399-112-3 (softcover)

      ISBN: 978-1-54399-113-0 (eBook)

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Praise for Addiction Rescue

      David’s Note

      Chapter 1 - Introduction to Addiction (Substance Use Disorder)

      Chapter 2 - The Rules of Addiction

      Chapter 3 - All Your Excuses

      Chapter 4 - The Start

      Chapter 5 - The Progression

      Chapter 6 - The Beginning to The End

      Chapter 7 - Getting Clean and Sober

      Chapter 8 - Relapse and Cross-Addiction

      Chapter 9 - Consequences

      Chapter 10 - The Elevator Analogy

      Chapter 11 - Action #1: Wake Up and Pull Your Head Out Of Your Ass

      Chapter 12 - Action #2: Understand Your Addiction

      Chapter 13 - Action #3: Find a Solution That’s Right For You

      Chapter 14 - Action #4: Do The Work

      Chapter 15 - Action #5: Aftercare

      Chapter 16 - A New Direction

      Chapter 17 - Turning Your Life Around

      Chapter 18 - Conceive

      Chapter 19 - Believe

      Chapter 20 - Achieve

      Chapter 21 - You Are What You Eat

      Chapter 22 - The Rules of Recovery

      Chapter 23 – Disrupting the Power of Obsessive Thinking

      Chapter 24 - Finding My Redemption

      Get Involved

      About The Authors

      Tear Out Sheets

      Tear Sheet #1 Rules of Addiction

      Tear Sheet #2 All Your Excuses

      Tear Sheet #3 Rules of Recovery

      Tear Sheet #4 Warning Signs of Relapse

      Tear Sheet #5 Disrupting the Power of Obsessive Thinking

      References

      Suggested Reading list

      Acknowledgements

      This is where we want to take the time to thank everyone who helped, encouraged, and gave us their time in creating this book. However, that list is endless, as the people we have encountered throughout our lives over the last half a century have contributed to the journey that got us here.

      From David: I am overwhelmingly grateful for my family. My dad, although passed on now; my mom; and my brother and sister, who never gave up on me. There were times they didn’t want anything to do with me, but they never quit loving me. Their examples gave me the will to keep trying. For Dana, who has stood by me even after divorce for twenty-eight years now, thank you for always believing in me and giving me hope. The gratitude I have for my two daughters is staggering. They got me through my darkest days. They are the light in my life that fuels everything I do. They give me the courage to be the man I want to be and are the reason everything I’ve gone through has been worth it.

      I know this sounds crazy, but I want to thank the news media, government agencies, and investigators that brought me to my indictment and eventual incarceration. Without them I would probably be dead. As much as I despised them at the time, they saved my life and gave my kids their father back.

      To all the sponsors, mentors, and sponsees I have had over the years, thank you for keeping my sobriety and abstinence in check. Thank you for letting me back in when I relapsed and never judging my journey. I am grateful for having found a higher power that has a plan for me I couldn’t have possibly seen, that brought me through times of which I shouldn’t have made it out alive, that gave me strength I didn’t know I had, and that saw me through to the other side of addiction.

      Thank you to my friends that have watched my journey and still call me their friend. Thank you to my prison mates that made three years of incarceration bearable. You are my friends for life. Thank you to all of you that encouraged me to get this book out there to share my experience, strength and hope to others in need.

      Thank you to all those that have given me the opportunity to collaborate with you in my mission to help others into recovery and to find an end to the opioid crisis; Hazelden Betty Ford, Tonka Cares, The Steve Rummler Foundation, and Twin Cities PBS.

      From Dana: Mom, thank you for your support and for believing in my abilities. You have always been there for me no matter how good or how treacherous my life has been. Thank you, Dad, for your entrepreneurial spirit and the hustle you vehemently showed me in doing what you have to do in life. Thank you to my big sis for setting the bar high, leading me by example, and letting me follow you around the country.

      Thank you, David, for your encouragement when I had to take on being a single mom, running my own business, and getting our daughters emotionally and financially through high school and college while you were incarcerated. You showed me the way to understanding addiction, relapse, and recovery so I could write this book in an effort to spread our message and give others and their families hope.

      Thank you to my beautiful daughters who have made all I do worthwhile. I would have given up long ago if your spirits hadn’t given me what I needed to keep going. Thank you for being the amazing beings that you are that make me so proud to be your mom.

      Thank you to my amazing group of friends that have been my support and family for my many years in Minnesota. Pattie, thank you for being my accountability partner while I wrote this book and your believing in me everyday.

      Thank you, Bonnie, for your editing services in making this book complete. And even more importantly for your never-ending kind words of encouragement, not only as to what an important and timely book this is, but also for the job I’ve done in writing it.

      Praise for Addiction Rescue

      As a person committed to recovery, the co-owner of intense treatment programs, and having worked with thousands of individuals and family members, I believe it is critical to be honest with people about the stark nature of their disease since their lives are at stake. I appreciate the honesty that David Marion and Dana Golden share in their book, Addiction Rescue: The NO-BS Guide to Recovery. David shares openly about the destruction he caused in his life and the lives of his family members while he was active in his addiction. He then gets into the solution and the transformation. He provides practical, real steps that I know work. Addicts, alcoholics and families who want a way out from the trap of addiction would benefit from reading this book.

      – Albert Black, Recovery in the Pines and Spartan Recovery – Founder / CEO

      After experiencing the loneliness, despair, hopelessness and anxiety associated with alcoholism, I was desperate to get help. I made the decision in 1997 to get honest with myself that I couldn’t get sober on my own. I needed the direction and care of others and a Higher Power. Since that time, I discovered my calling, getting into service for others like me and their families. I’ve worked with thousands of individuals, hearing stories of their failed attempts at getting sober and seeing what has worked. I appreciate David and Dana’s straightforward, honest approach in their book, Addiction Rescue: The NO-BS Guide to Recovery. The book is an easy read of real solutions that can help others who are desperate like I was.

      – Doug Dolan, Recovery in the Pines and Spartan Recovery – Co-Owner / COO

      David’s Note

      I spent a lifetime making money to afford my drug and gambling addictions. That was, until age twenty-nine when my parents sent me on a one-way ticket to Minnesota to get clean and sober. I went from Wall Street stockbroker and sales manager in New York City to dishwasher at the Day By Day Cafe in St. Paul, Minnesota.

      I left New York with the intention of getting a better handle on how to use drugs and gambling in my life. I quickly came to understand that using them, at all, was not an option. It only took two months for me to resign from my firm on Wall Street and settle into a different life in Minnesota.

      I put my sobriety and abstinence first. I went to Alcoholic Anonymous meetings. I became a regular speaker at the treatment center where I was once a patient. I took my sales experience as a manager and trainer and became a motivational speaker in the areas of addiction and recovery. I helped as many addicts as I could to find recovery and sponsored countless guys.

      And then I relapsed.

      Everything I had once done for myself and taught others to do, I had abandoned. It would take me years to find my way back to recovery, and in the process I lost everything, including my freedom.

      This book is a guide to my 5-Action Process, and it works if you work it. (I borrowed that from AA.) But that’s the bottom line: you have to work at it. Listen, if you’re an addict or have someone in your life who is, you know how hard it is to work at that addiction. The time, money, attention, and thought that goes into being an addict shows just how hard we are willing to work at something. If there’s a will to live a life free of addiction, there is a way. It’s easy to do, but as I found out when I relapsed, it’s easy not to do. And just as with any other job in life, it has to be worked to be successful.

      My mission is to reach as many addicts as I can with this message of hope, and an easy-to-follow guide to recovery. And yes, I realize I said easy, yet I know there’s nothing easy about kicking an addiction. Believe me when I tell you I’ve been through the worst of them. But with intention, persistence, and this 5-Action Process, you will learn recovery is attainable and a life free from addiction makes the work incredibly worthwhile.

      My wish for you or your loved one is to find the happiness, success, serenity, and peace in recovery all addicts deserve. We are in this together. Addiction is a disease of loneliness and isolation, and—conversely—the answers are in the fellowship of one another. There is no doubt in my mind that by applying what you learn through reading and doing the exercises in this book, you can change your life in all the positive ways you’ve ever imagined.

      I am always thrilled to hear from you if any questions, thoughts, or concerns come up along your journey through this book, or throughout recovery, so don’t hesitate to reach out at anytime. I will always make an effort to get back

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