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Am I? Am I Not? an Alcoholic

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This is an excellent book. It has something important and good for everyone. The author does not preach or moralize about this difficult subject. He has a direct approach, letting the chips fall where they may. And lots of chips fall!

The sections which appeal to me most are those which describe the workings of AA. Other readers may well find other sections more important to their needs.

I am not in the health care field, except as a taxpayer. If I were in that field, I would want to give this book to the particular public with whom I were dealing. It seems to me that health care professionals (counsellors, doctors, HMOs, health insurance companies) should seriously consider giving this book to their patients, members, and insureds as a preventative medicine measure. The book is compact in size, inexpensive, easy to read, packs a very potent message, and would be very easy to distibute to a large community of persons, not only those who need to ponder the consequences of their drinking, but also their wives, children and parents. In other words, everyone clearly qualifies to be a reader of this book.

I feel this book talked to me one-on-one --no preaching. I related, and I quickly found out that I have a problem. This is the best book I have read on this disease. Now I am into recovery.

Not only is this book unbelievably overpriced, it's just the same old same old with endorsements from numerous friends or co-workers of the author. Look, for years there was a joke that everyone in Santa Barbara was a real estate professional, a massage therapist or a mental health counselor. I know all the therapists who endorsed this book and they have endorsed each others works a number of times. Don't fall into this nonsense, you can find all of this online, for free, or go to an AA meeting if you are wondering about being an alcoholic. DO NOT HELP THIS SELF-HELP INDUSTRY TO RIP PEOPLE OFF.

For those who have never read anything about alchohol abuse, some of this information is informative. However, much of this inforamtion has been covered before...and much of it is one-dimensional without a lot of gray. It can promote more questions than it can answer.