ADDICTION LOGIC: Understanding the Thinking That Keeps Addiction Alive

ADDICTION DOESN'T START WITH THE DRINK OR DRUG.

It starts in the thinking that gives us permission to pick it up.

ADDICTION LOGIC: Understanding the Thinking That Keeps Addiction Alive takes a direct look at one of the most dangerous parts of addiction: the distorted thinking that can make something destroying our life somehow look like the solution to our life.

Why does somebody use again after an overdose?

Why drink again after losing relationships, jobs, money, health or freedom?

Why can a person know exactly where addiction is taking them and still convince themselves, “This time will be different”?

Because addiction develops its own logic.

I call it Addiction Logic.

This book breaks down the thinking behind denial, rationalization, justification, isolation, resentment, self-pity, immediate gratification, relapse and the endless negotiations we have with ourselves.

But identifying the problem isn't enough.

We Have A Solution.

This book teaches Recovery Logic—how to challenge addictive thinking with honesty, evidence, personal responsibility, accountability and practical action.

Inside this 198-page recovery resource you'll find:

• 48 chapters on addictive thinking and recovery

• Addiction Logic vs. Recovery Logic examples

• A practical relapse-prevention framework

• The Recovery Logic Test

• Personal inventory exercises

• A 30-Day Addiction Logic Journal

• Professional teaching and discussion material

• Recovery speaker prompts and workshop tools

• Practical methods for identifying the thinking that can come before relapse

This book was written especially for recovery professionals, peer specialists, recovery speakers, people in recovery, families and anyone who wants to better understand how addictive thinking actually works.

I don't believe recovery is simply about putting down a drink or drug.

That's where the real education begins.

We have to become teachable enough to learn about the person who kept picking it back up.

Stop protecting the lie.

Stop negotiating with the evidence.

STOP LYING TO YOURSELF.

There is a solution.

Start living in it.

Stanley R. Leszewski

Founder — American Substance Abuse Foundation LLC

WE HAVE A SOLUTION