The Link Between Add and Addiction: Getting the Help You Deserve

by Wendy Richardson

As many as 50% of people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) use drugs, alcohol, and other addictive behaviors to self-medicate their ADD symptoms. Here's what you need to know to get help or help... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576830047
• ISBN13: 9781576830048
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Unlocks The Mystery & Provides Helpful Tools

If you suspect that you -or someone you'd like to help- suffers from ADD or an addiction problem, this straight-forward guide will unravel the mystery and then show you practical ways to greatly improve life. The author -a highly respected practitioner in California - writes in a no-nonsense style that makes you feel that you are learning from the best. She clearly knows the subject so well that she can distill material into reader-friendly nuggets of useful bullet points, checklists, tools, and quick assessments. Read this book and you'll be better able to help yourself or someone else.

concise, complete explanation of ADD and addiction link

Wendy has written a clear explanation of what ADD is and how it impacts a person's life. She explains how many people with ADD also have problems with a variety of addictions, and what they can do about it. Wendy has personal insight into both problem areas, as well as extensive professional training, so her writing on these topics has both depth and breadth. The book is written for the lay person, is not over-whelming, and is clear and concise. Anyone who thinks they have both ADD and addictions would greatly benefit from reading this book.

Important Book for all People with ADD!

The Link Between ADD and Addiction is a one of a kind book and should be at the top of the list for all people with Attention Deficit Disorder whether or not they believe they have addictions. Its important information helps the ADD adult or parent of ADD children understand how attention deficit disorder may be affecting their lives. It is well written, in a friendly, easy to read style.Thanks Wendy Richardson for writing it!

Entertaining, clear and very readable.

Wonderful book! Enjoyed the humor, humanity and easily accessable wealth of information about both ADD and addiction. Wendy Richardson presents the importance of looking at the link between these two disorders in a way that readers can easily grasp. This is readable, clear and the important information is brought to life by the stories. Both clients and other therapist have thanked me for this recommendation.

ADD + Drugs = Why?

I read this book while I was in jail for possesion of cocaine with the intent to deliver. Although I had read books previously that alluded to a relationship between ADD type disorders and self medication with various street drugs as well as alcohol and perscripton drugs (whatever one can get be it benzodiazapines, opiates, etc.), this book defines that causal relationship in a very extensively and clinically yet logically and understandable at the same time. The book allowed me to gain insight both in my own use/abuse patterns and the patterns in the people around me. As a veteren coke dealer of ten years (before being caught), I saw a lot of patterns and I can now attribute a great majority of these addictive and compulsive behaviors to underlying clinical problems that can be dealt with on a level that is astigmatic and non-dehumanizing.