Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma

The prior reviewer sounded like me before I read this book. While he did give it a four, a part of him could not or did not find the safety and sobriety that took me back to my 12 step support family. Thank you. MK

If you're a survivor of sexual, physical or emotional abuse, as well as the sufferer (whether currently active or not) of some sort of substance addiction, you can find a lot of wonderful insights in this book about how your abuse affected your addiction, and how it affected you in other ways. The only reason I don't five-star it is it goes too far down the 12-Step straight and narrow as far as suggestions on how to get help for addiction. "Secular" or "non-Step" alternatives aren't even mentioned. I don't think that's totally the product of ignorance, either; HCI is second only to Hazelden as a recovery publisher and is, basically, 12-Step "invested" to the gills. That said, survivors of trauma and addiction who are well clear of Step groups can still get good help from this book.