Relapse Traps: How to Avoid the Twelve Most Common Pitfalls in RecoveryThe authors of The Twelve Steps Revisited and Don't Help counsel the one out of every two Americans who, within the first year of recovery, fall back into the old patterns of dependency--by showing how to avoid and recover from these traps. |
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