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Addiction Resources |
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Alcohol and substance abuse |
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Core Competencies for Clergy and Other Pastoral Ministers In Addressing Alcohol and Drug Dependence and the Impact on Family Members
In November 2001, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) supported a meeting of an expert panel on seminary education that recommended the development of a set of core competencies to help addicted individuals and their families. This report details the content of a meeting to develop those competencies as well as the resulting core competencies.
Read the report online or download it at the SAMHSA Web site. |
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Hazelden
Hazelden is the leader in alcohol and drug addiction treatment, education and recovery. They accomplish their goal of lifelong recovery from addiction and other drugs through treatment, publishing, education, research, public advocacy and shared learning with other organizations. |
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Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous
Ernest Kurtz
Hazelden Information Education, 1998
After earning his Ph.D. from Harvard — this book represents his doctoral dissertation — Dr. Kurtz taught American History and the History of Religion in America at the University of Georgia and Loyola University of Chicago and lectured for ten years at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. |
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From Selden Bacon, Former Director, Summer School of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University: "I have seen quite a few books on or about A.A., have even written on the subject myself. This is the best." |
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From Ann Douglas, Ph.D., author, The Feminization of American Culture: "A model of its kind, Mr. Kurtz's study must command the attention of those concerned with the disease of alcoholism and its effective treatment, and of all those interested in the turns of American culture." |
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From Frank Freidel, Ph.D., former Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University: "This is both an absorbing story and first-rate intellectual history. It is the first thoughtful historical account of Alcoholics Anonymous, outstanding in its readability and for its remarkable probing of the psychological and theological underpinnings of the organization." |
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Available at online retailers or your local bookstore.
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Pathways: From the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery: A Travel Guide for Addiction Professionals
William L. White
Hazelden Information Education, 2nd ed., 1996
One of the most original works on substance abuse treatment in the last decade, Pathways explores the pilgrimage between two social worlds — one that promotes excessive use of psychoactive drugs and the other that promotes radical abstinence from these substances — and how individuals can move from one culture to the other. This anthropological study of addiction and recovery as a cultural phenomenon serves as a manual for both substance abuse program design and clinical techniques in substance abuse assessment and treatment.
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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Substance Abuse: A Handbook for Young People (Spanish)
Translated into Spanish, this booklet contains information, statistics, stories and 24 " focus sessions" to help young people explore the various kinds of addictions and the various levels of responsibility and response required to address the issue of substance abuse. Many young people have family, peer or personal experience with alcohol and/or drug abuse. This is a great resource to help them process what this might mean from a faith perspective.
$2.00
PDS# 25793003
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Faith-based addiction resources |
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Addiction Awareness bulletin insert
Bulletin insert featuring a reproduction of the 1999 Addiction Awareness poster with caption "Life Savers 12-Steps to Healing" and a litany of response.
$7.00
PDS# 7266099007
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Addiction, Grace and Healing
A resource book (developed ecumenically) containing personal stories, suggested sermon themes, church school lessons, a poster and other helpful educational materials. As churches and individuals try to raise awareness around issues of addiction in a Christian context, this resource can be a helpful guide.
Free
PDS# 25790009
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Circle of Wholeness
Addiction prevention resource for youth and concerned adults. Reaching youth with the message about addictions during their adolescent years can be influential and informative for the rest of their lives. This book helps adults and youth to think about addiction and the effects it has on lives.
$3.00
PDS# 25791002
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National Health Ministries
National Health Ministries supports the ministry of health, healing and wholeness of body, mind and spirit of Presbyterians in the United States. National Health Ministries helps congregations, presbyteries and synods meet the health needs of all Presbyterians by empowering them to care for one another, promoting health and wellness, and working for equity, access and advocacy. |
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Rush Center
The Johnson Institute's Rush Center provides tools, training and conferencing for Faith Partners Teams in congregations of every faith to learn and deliver appropriate responses to addiction disease. |
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Gambling |
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Gambling and Christian Faith
Church & Society Magazine March/Apr 1999
Articles about biblical, theological, historical and policy aspects of gambling and how it affects people, communication and ministry.
$2.50
PDS# 7263099602
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Gambling & Christian Faith
The booklet entitled describes the opposition to gambling by General Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its predecessor bodies. It provides statements adopted by previous General Assemblies opposing gambling in all its forms.
Free
PDS# 7262098001
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Presbyterian Panel Report: Gambling and the Christian Faith
The report describes results of a 2000 Presbyterian Panel survey of members, elders and clergy on the topic of gambling and faith. It includes information about what Presbyterians consider to be gambling (e.g., is buying a raffle ticket or making a friendly wager considered gambling?) and their participation in various types of gambling. It also presents Presbyterians' opinions about gambling and its role in society, as well as their beliefs about the role of the church in opposing or supporting gambling.
$5.00
PDS# 6510000264
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Work and Society |
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The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss & Perpetuate Sick Organizations
Anne Wilson Schaef and Diane Fassel
Harper SanFrancisco, 1990
Schaef and Fassel show how managers, workers, and organization members exhibit the classic symptoms of addiction: denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of acting, and manipulating events to maintain the status quo.
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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"Affluenza" with Scott Simon
PBS documentary, 1987, & "Escape From Affluenza," PBS documentary, 1988.
"Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. 4. A television program that could change your life."
From the PBS website: "Affluenza is a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and over consumption."
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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The Man Who Mistook His Job for a Life: A Chronic Overachiever Finds the Way Home
Jonathon Lazear
Crown Publishers, 2002
Literary agent Jonathon Lazear describes how American males are increasingly finding their own perceptions altered as they subjugate their personal lives to their professional ones. Lazear candidly discloses how he once let his own work rule his existence.
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About It
Ilene Philipson
Free Press, 2002
From Publishers Weekly: "Through her work observing Americans' work habits, psychotherapist Ilene Philipson found that people increasingly look to their jobs for self-worth and a sense that they're connected to something larger than themselves. Work is "colonizing our emotional lives," she writes, and ... she shares stories of people who seek to fill the self-worth void by working until midnight and having a social world that revolves around their colleagues."
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America
Willliam L. White
Chestnut Health Systems, 1998
Remarkably comprehensive, and highly regarded by many in the addiction recovery field. Received the 1999 McGovern Family Foundation Award for the best book on addiction recovery. White was featured in the Bill Moyers' PBS special "Close To Home: Addiction in America" and Showtime's documentary "Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century."
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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When Society Becomes an Addict
Anne Wilson Schaef
Harper SanFrancisco, 1988
From Library Journal: "Rather than focusing on addictions to such substances as alcohol, drugs, food or to processes such as gambling, sex, or work, this interesting and unusual treatise uses the concept of relationship addiction. According to this concept, an individual is seen as always being in a superior (or inferior) position to another, an addictive situation that creates self-centeredness, dishonesty, and greed. The symptoms associated with relationship addiction are equated with those associated with the "White Male System" (described in Schaef's Women's Reality, 6/15/81) and provide telling insights into why we have a dysfunctional society many of whose members are addicted to substances and processes." — Barbara J. Powell, Veterans Administration Medical Ctr., Kansas City, Mo.
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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Working Ourselves to Death: The High Cost of Workaholism and the Rewards of Recovery
Diane Fassel
iUniverse.com, 2000
Utilizes a 12-step approach to recovery from workaholism.
Available at online retailers or your local bookstore. |
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