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Conquer Chronic Pain by Peter Przekop, DO, PHD

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Conquer Chronic Pain

“Chronic pain affects as many as 30 percent of Americans . . . there are about 320 million people living in the United States, which means that approximately 110 million of them are likely to have chronic pain.” —Peter Przekop

Chronic pain is most widely defined as “any pain that persists for three months or more.” Millions of Americans suffer from chronic pain every day, and some of the current treatments available may actually be causing additional harm or prolonged suffering. One of the most common treatment methods, the prescribing of opioid medications such as Vicodin and OxyContin, can have undesirable side effects and lead to addiction. In his book CONQUER CHRONIC PAIN: An Innovative Mind-Body Approach (Hazelden; November 3, 2015; $15.95; Original Trade Paperback), Peter Przekop, DO, PhD, provides healthy alternatives to treating chronic pain.
Dr. Przekop suggests that chronic pain is actually a disease in the brain and not only affects the brain, mind, and body but actually becomes part of the individual. Through his research, he discovered that people who could not cope with stress and who internalized emotions had an increased risk of becoming chronically ill. In addition, Dr. Przekop reveals that past negative experiences can hinder the healing process. The author also offers important information regarding the structure of the brain, how the mind is different from the brain, how the mind works, and how chronic pain alters brain functions.

This groundbreaking book also includes eighteen exercises specifically designed to help conquer chronic pain, including mindful movement–a schema exercise that helps us understand how our mind processes information—and clearing adversity, which helps us to clear negative energy that is locked inside, creating adversity.

CONQUER CHRONIC PAIN teaches us:

  • Why people experience chronic pain and the factors that contribute to it
  • Exercises to help conquer chronic pain based on the philosophy of Qigong, as well as the six principles they are based upon
  • What the “three minds” are and their importance to alleviating pain
  • The chemical reactions behind pain signals
  • What neuroplasticity is and how it relates to chronic pain

CONQUER CHRONIC PAIN helps us to better understand chronic pain by explaining its causes and effects on the mind and body, reveals how a person’s coping strategies determine his or her ability to handle pain, and provides the exercises and information to assist in conquering chronic pain.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Przekop, DO, PhD, has been doing research and developing his alternative model for managing chronic pain for more than ten years, four of them with the chronic pain clinic at the Betty Ford Center, and has published a number of research papers on the subject. Learn more about Dr. Przekop and his program by visiting http://www.peterprzekop.com/

ABOUT THE HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION:
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is a force of healing and hope for individuals, families and communities affected by addiction to alcohol and other drugs. It is the nation’s largest nonprofit treatment provider, with a legacy that began in 1949 and includes the 1982 founding of the Betty Ford Center. With 16 sites in California, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado and Texas, the Foundation offers prevention and recovery solutions nationwide and across the entire continuum of care for youth and adults.

Conquer Chronic Pain: An Innovative Mind-Body Approach
By Peter Przekop, DO, PhD
Hazelden Publishing
Publication Date: November 3, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1616497897
Original Trade Paperback
Price: $15.95
Pages: 200 pp.

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Baby Care Anywhere by Ben Spitalnick, MD, MBA, FAAP & Keith Seibert, MD, MBA, FAAP

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Baby Care Anywhere
The portable pocket guide to the baby basics that fits perfectly in a diaper bag or stroller pocket

CHICAGO: “Welcome to parenthood—in the age of ‘information overload,’” is the opening to a new resource for parents, Baby Care Anywhere: A Quick Guide to Parenting On the Go (American Academy of Pediatrics, July 2015) by Ben Spitalnick, MD, MBA, FAAP, and Keith Siebert, MD, MBA, FAAP. This go-to guide is the perfect, handy companion for new parents who are out and about with their child at the park, grocery store, shopping mall, airport, or anywhere else when they need quick and easy-to-find answers to difficult questions.

Drs. Spitalnick and Seibert have culled essential information that addresses questions their patient families raise over and over again. “Think of it as the reference manual that should have come with your newborn,” the doctors explain.

Busy new parents can rest assured they’ll have quick access to everything they need to know about jaundice, diaper rash, earaches, immunizations, sleep, reflux, fever, and much more at their fingertips. Baby Care Anywhere addresses 150 of the most frequently asked questions and concerns raised by new parents including:

  • What to ask at checkups
  • How to identify symptoms that need a doctor’s attention
  • What the top 12 diagnoses are and how to manage them
  • What things parents need to do to keep their children safe
  • What the must-haves are when on the go

Other invaluable information includes how to find a pediatrician and make the most out of doctor visits, feeding and bathing a newborn, and the top 10 symptoms that trigger a doctor visit for children. The guide also features helpful checklists and charts that parents can fill out for their own reference.

This portable pocket guide to baby basics fits perfectly in a diaper bag or stroller pocket, making it a great resource for new moms and dads on the go. Baby Care Anywhere is an empowerment tool for families that distills critical information for quick answers to parents’ questions – saving them precious time better spent on their new bundle of joy.

Ben Spitalnick, MD, MBA, FAAP, is a general pediatrician whose clinical experiences include office patient care, hospitalist duties, and newborn nursery care. He is managing partner of an 11-physician pediatric practice.

Keith Seibert, MD, MBA, FAAP, is a pediatrician and board member for a large multispecialty group practice in Savannah, GA. He has served as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at both of the region’s hospital systems.

Book Details:
Title: Baby Care Anywhere: A Quick Guide to Parenting On the Go
Authors: Ben Spitalmick, MD, MBA, FAAP and Keith Seibert, MD, MBA, FAAP
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Publication: July 2015, $12.95 (CAN $ 14.95)
ISBN: 978-1-58110-896-5, eBook ISBN: 978-1-58110-897-2
Parenting & Family Care, 250 pages, 5 x 7

Also available from the American Academy of Pediatrics:
Heading Home With Your Newborn (ISBN: 978-1-58110-893-4, eBook ISBN 1-58110-895-8)
RetroBaby (ISBN: 978-1-58110-837-8, eBook ISBN: 978-1-58110-832-3)
Mama Doc Medicine (ISBN: 978-1-58110-837-8, eBook ISBN: 978-1-58110-832-5)

Available on the HealthyChildren.org bookstore at http://shop.AAP.org/for-parents/.

HealthyChildren.org is the official AAP website for parents. HealthyChildren.org offers more than 4,000 articles on children’s health and safety, along with interactive tools, tips and a free e-newsletter.

The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts by K.C. Tansley

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The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts“Ghosts don’t exist. They can’t touch me. They can’t hurt me. They aren’t real.”

This simple mantra has saved 17-year-old Kat Preston’s life on countless occasions. It stops ghosts, which she calls “unbelievables,” from manifesting in her world. Refusing to believe is the only way to protect herself from the ghost that tried to steal her life when she was a child.

But some things can’t be ignored, and the ghosts are done letting Kat have a normal life in this YA time-travel murder mystery THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS (Beckett Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-943024-00-1, August 2015), by award-winning author Kourtney Heintz as K.C. Tansley.  When Kat is alone doing research for her prep school teacher on the mysterious wedding night murders at Castle Creighton in 1886, the ghosts make their reappearance. Kat uses everything she has to keep them from breaking through, but she knows this project is putting her ghost-free world at risk.

Working on this project is the stepping-stone to her dream school, Georgetown University; however, Kat can’t keep the ghosts away and solve the wedding night murders that are steeped in unbelievables. The mysterious deaths of the bride and groom, Cassie Mallory and Sebastian Radcliffe, triggered the “Radcliffe Curse”—a curse that leaves the oldest Radcliffe male heir dead on his 23rd birthday. This project sets Kat on a collision course with all the unbelievables.

If it were just about the murders, Kat might be able to say no. But when she finds out that the ghost who saved her life and the ghost who nearly stole her life were both bridesmaids at this wedding, the murders become about her and the ghosts. Kat has to find out what happened to those ghosts and why they both came into her life, and that means being a part of this on-site research project.

Kat and the uptight project leader Evan trek to Castle Creighton, an old fortress that resides off the coast of Connecticut on the remote Isle of Acacia. The project takes a dark twist when they learn they only have a few weeks to solve the mystery before the current Radcliffe heir, Joshua, dies on his 23rd birthday.

Kat must confront her fear of the unbelievables when she’s yanked through a magic portal and Evan follows her. They are transported back in time to 1886 and fall into the bodies of two wedding guests, Toria Langley and Alistair Kingsley. With each passing day, Kat and Evan grow weaker and have more and more trouble staying in control of the bodies they inhabit. Together, the must try to figure out the wedding night murders before they fade into the past forever.

THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS is a fast-paced YA time-travel murder mystery novel that combines time-traveling, paranormal, and gothic mystery genres to weave a tale full of ancestral curses, powerful spells, strange connections, and inherited surprises.

About Kourtney Heintz:
Kourtney Heintz is the award-winning author of the novel The Six Train to Wisconsin (2013), and is debuting her first Young Adult novel THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS under the pseudonym K.C. Tansley. Heintz is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives with her warrior lapdog, Emerson, on a hill in Connecticut. Never one to say no to a road trip, she’s climbed the Great Wall twice, hopped on the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, and danced the night away in the dunes of Cape Hatteras. She loves the ocean and hates the sun, which makes for interesting beach days. Find out more at: http://kourtneyheintz.com/

THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS
By K.C. Tansley
Beckett Publishing Group
Publication Date: August 1st, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-943024-00-1
Original Trade Paperback & E-book
Price: $11.99
258  pages

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Unwelcome Inheritance by By Lisa Sue Woititz and Dr. Janet G. Woititz, Ed.D.

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Unwelcome InheritanceIn 1983, Dr. Janet G. Woititz published a groundbreaking book, Adult Children of Alcoholics, which became the premiere work on the subject and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for more than 40 weeks. Her inspiration for writing it stemmed from being married to an alcoholic and seeing the suffering her children were going through, along with her desire to help others going through the same experience. Now, a new book further explores the reasons why adult children of alcoholics or addicts, “ACoA” for short, continue the destructive cycle and how to stop it.

No one is better equipped to carry the message than Dr. Woititz’s daughter Lisa, an ACoA and former program director of Institute for Counseling and Training, “Dr. Jan’s” clinic.  UNWELCOME INHERITANCE: Break Your Family’s Cycle of Addictive Behaviors (Hazelden; June 2015; $14.95; Original Trade Paperback) by Lisa Sue Woititz and Dr. Janet G. Woititz, continues the healing process by helping ACoAs understand past experiences and look deeper at how they live today.

This extension of Dr. Jan’s best-seller describes the characteristics of ACoAs and what it means to be codependent and explores how addictive behavior is part of an “unwelcome inheritance.” Also explored is how being an ACoA affects parenting and what to do when your child is using drugs and alcohol. Most important, Unwelcome Inheritance analyzes the power and ability an ACoA has to break the cycle. As a child of an alcoholic, Lisa Woititz also shares personal stories from her childhood. Each chapter concludes with questions or tips, along with a quote from Dr. Jan that additionally delves into these topics. Also included are Dr. Jan’s thoughts and advice through previously unpublished writings.

UNWELCOME INHERITANCE examines:

  • What adult children of alcoholics/addicts can do to help break the cycle
  • How looking at past family lineage can help ACoAs expand their views and gain a better understanding of the disease of addiction
  • Approaches ACoAs can take when their child is using alcohol or other drugs
  • Why reconnecting with an addicted parent could either be a step forward in the healing process or unhealthy and dangerous
  • How self-examination, letting go of expectations, and trusting one’s instincts all contribute to positive change

UNWELCOME INHERITANCE is a must-read source for anyone looking to break the cycle of addictive behavior for themselves and for the next generation.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Lisa Sue Woititz managed Dr. Woititz’s Institute for Counseling and Training for a number of years and has worked in the mental health, substance abuse, and criminal justice fields.

Dr. Janet G. Woititz, Ed.D., was the author of several books, including the seminal Adult Children of Alcoholics, and led the movement that made “adult child” a household name. She passed away in 1994.

Learn more about the Woititz family and their organization by visiting http://drjan.com/

ABOUT HAZELDEN:
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is a force of healing and hope for individuals, families and communities affected by addiction to alcohol and other drugs. It is the nation’s largest nonprofit treatment provider, with a legacy that began in 1949 and includes the 1982 founding of the Betty Ford Center. With 16 sites in California, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado and Texas, the Foundation offers prevention and recovery solutions nationwide and across the entire continuum of care to help youth and adults reclaim their lives from the disease of addiction. It includes the largest recovery publishing house in the country, a fully accredited graduate school of addiction studies, an addiction research center, an education arm for medical professionals and a unique children’s program, and is the nation’s leader in advocacy and policy for treatment and recovery.

Unwelcome Inheritance:
Break Your Family’s Cycle of Addictive Behaviors
By Lisa Sue Woititz and Dr. Janet G. Woititz
Hazelden Publishing
Publication Date: June 2, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1616495909
Original Trade Paperback/E-book
Price: $14.95
Pages: 160pp.

 

Marijuana by Kevin P. Hill, M.D.

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Marijuana

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The debate over marijuana legalization has never been more heated as the issue continues to divide policy makers, the medical community, and the public alike. As the topic of medical versus recreational use continues, many states have already decriminalized possession, while 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana in some form. While it appears that acceptance of marijuana usage is growing, there is much misinformation about it and a lot more that needs to be understood regarding its effects on people, especially on the developing brains of young people.

MARIJUANA: The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed (Hazelden; March 2015; $14.95; Original Trade Paperback) by Kevin P. Hill, M.D., a leading expert in marijuana research and addiction treatment and one of the few impartial sources on the subject, provides the evidence both for and against marijuana usage. Hill’s book covers the complexities of marijuana use statistics, the major myths about marijuana use, the controversies around decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana, and the challenges of treating marijuana addiction, including working with parents.

Hill discusses the history of marijuana, how it was first used as medicine to help treat many physical problems, and how a gap has developed today between the science of medical marijuana and the public’s perception of it. He also talks about how the media contributes to the controversy by presenting the more extreme views without fully examining the facts. Hill describes the effects of marijuana on anxiety, depression, and critical thinking and how the effects of marijuana differ in adults and adolescents. The arguments for and against  decriminalization and the legalization of marijuana for recreational and medical uses are presented as he weighs in with his own perspective based on years of research and working with hundreds of clients in his addiction practice.

In MARIJUANA, Kevin P. Hill speaks to important questions such as:

  • Is marijuana a harmful and addictive drug?
  • Does medical marijuana really help treat certain illnesses?
  • How does marijuana affect brain chemistry?
  • Is marijuana as dangerous as alcohol and other drugs?

This timely and important book states the facts and actual data regarding marijuana’s risks and benefits, allowing people to make the best informed decisions for themselves and their families.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin P. Hill, M.D., M.H.S., is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard’s McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and an addiction consultant with a number of professional sports organizations. His marijuana research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the American Lung Association. In 2013 he was awarded the Alfred Pope Award for Best Research Paper by a Young Investigator at McLean Hospital, and he has authored or coauthored articles in more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Learn more at: http://drkevinhill.com/

ABOUT THE HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is a force of healing and hope for individuals, families and communities affected by addiction to alcohol and other drugs.  It is the nation’s largest nonprofit treatment provider, with a legacy that began in 1949 and includes the 1982 founding of the Betty Ford Center. With 15 sites in California, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado and Texas, the Foundation offers prevention and recovery solutions nationwide and across the entire continuum of care to help youth and adults reclaim their lives from the disease of addiction.. It includes the largest recovery publishing house in the country, a fully accredited graduate school of addiction studies, an addiction research center, an education arm for medical professionals and a unique children’s program, and is the nation’s leader in advocacy and policy for treatment and recovery.

Marijuana:
The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed
By Kevin P. Hill, M.D.
Hazelden Publishing
Publication Date: March 31, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1616495596
Original Trade Paperback/E-book
Price: $14.95
Pages: 240 pp.