| Adding Fire to the Fuel: Challenging Shame and the Stigma of Alcoholism Contributor(s): Stevens, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1631929062 ISBN-13: 9781631929069 Publisher: Alcohology OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcohol |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 134 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: You always add fuel to a fire, not the other way around. Adding fire to the fuel will test your firefighter merit badge skills ... IF it doesn't kill you. A forest floor coated in pine needles is fuel. Add fire to that fuel, you've got some explaining to do. You take a match to a can of gasoline and it's going to blow. You'll still get a wicked fireball if you add that volatile fuel to a fire, but you're probably going to live. When stigma, aka: shame (fire) is added to the raw fuel of an alcoholic body and mind, one can reasonably expect a fireball proportional to that alcoholic's capacity for handling fire. It's an unrealistic expectation that society is going to stop the stigma and shaming overnight. Or in a generation. Maybe this book can be a fire extinguisher for public use - to further the dialogue - and for personal use for those like me with the disease of alcoholism. And their families. |
