Addiction

Websites

• SMART Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction – Articles and Essays
  • SMART Recovery is a global community of people and families working together to resolve addictive problems. Their ‘articles’ section provides useful resources relating to addiction and recovery
• Aġenzija Sedqa Malta
  • Founded on the 26th June 1994, Aġenzija Sedqa is one of Malta’s agencies against drug and alcohol abuse. The agency aims to provide a multitude of multi-disciplinary services related to substance and behaviour addictions such as prevention services, community-based rehabilitation programmes, residential rehabilitation services, therapeutic services, inpatient and outpatient medical services and also an opiate substitution treatment.
• Caritas Malta
  • Caritas Malta was founded on the 11th of November 1968 with a mission to alleviate poverty and promote human development and social justice, witnessing to the Christian faith and Gospel values. Fondazzjoni Caritas Malta offers a variety of services to help those people who are in need from young people to the elderly. Caritas, as the Foundation for the rehabilitation of drug abusers offers services such as: social work, therapy & counselling, community-based services, residential services, and support groups. This umbrella organisation focuses on issues of poverty, loneliness, mental health, depression, separation and Huntington’s amongst other services.

Videos

• TED Talk: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari (2015)
  • What really causes addiction? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail first hand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.

Books

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts | Gabor Maté (2008)
  • Based on Gabor Maté’s decades of experience as a doctor and his groundbreaking work with addiction, he presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout our society; not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects, rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional, and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs (and behaviours) of addiction. Dr Maté presents a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness.
• Integral Recovery | John Dupuy (2013)
  • This book is for everyone who is suffering from the disease of addiction or who cares about someone who is: for addicts, their families and friends, and their health care providers. It is for those who are currently in recovery and looking for a way to shift their recovery- becoming the absolute best version of themselves, from mere recovery to Integral Recovery. It brings latest knowledge, techniques and neurotechnologies in addiction treatment modalities in order to ensure a more holistic and lasting recovery. Integral Recovery teaches life-changing practices that initiate the addict on a journey of healing, transformation, and awakening, offering the possibility of a lifetime of health, joy, and sobriety.

Journals

• Addiction | Society for the Study of Addiction
  • Addiction publishes peer-reviewed research reports on pharmalogical and behavioural addictions, bringing together research conducted within many different disciplines. The publication is an official journal of the Society for the Study of Addiction, and has been in publication since 1884.