Drunks, Drugs & Debits: How to Recognize Addicts and Avoid Financial AbuseExperts have know that addiction causes distorted perceptions, resulting in impaired judgment, manifesting in observably destructive behaviors. Thorburn, seemingly for the first time, reverses this idea: if there is poor conduct, those with whom the person comes into contact should look for addiction and act accordingly. he explains why others need to identify addicts, how they can do so by observing behavior patterns, and actions that can help prevent tragedy. |
Contents
1 Addiction and Financial Abuse A Primer | 1 |
The Thorburn Substance Addiction Recognition Indicator Short Version | 10 |
2 How Common Are Addicts? | 13 |
3 A Genetic Foundation | 21 |
Figure 2Alcoholism is Genetic | 25 |
Distorted perceptions and impaired judgment | 29 |
The Role of Euphoric Recall in Alcoholic Behavior | 32 |
Breaking the web of deceit | 38 |
Personality Type and addiction | 245 |
Temperament and recovery | 252 |
The Temperaments summarized | 254 |
Core Needs of the Temperaments | 257 |
Values and Intelligences of the Temperaments | 258 |
EgoInflating Professions for the EarlyStage Addict | 261 |
Games Addicts Play and Psychological Disorders for Which they may be Mistaken | 271 |
Intervention | 272 |
Amundsens Blood Alcohol ContentWeight Chart | 48 |
Driving Behaviors and Probabilities of DUI | 51 |
Ratcheting Up the Probabilities of Addiction | 67 |
Illegal Prescription and Illegal | 118 |
The Thorburn Substance Addiction Recognition Indicator | 131 |
5 Denial vs Ignorance | 137 |
Crises and Consequences | 179 |
7 The Financial Abuse of Others | 187 |
Financial Disenabling | 223 |
Protecting yourself financially | 230 |
Protecting Yourself from the Addict Spouse | 234 |
Other public policy considerations in the cessation of enabling | 296 |
Time Frames for Blood and Urine Drug Testing | 299 |
Other public policy considerations in the cessation of enabling | 303 |
Powerlessness and empowerment | 309 |
Chaos and Personal Empowerment | 310 |
Epilogue | 319 |
The Case for Hitler Being an Addict | 325 |
Personality Types and Temperaments | 332 |
Figure 19Why it is Difficult to Determine an Addicts Psychological Type | 336 |
An Integration of Chaos Free Market | 339 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Alcoholism Myths and Realities: Removing the Stigma of Society's Most ... Doug Thorburn Limited preview - 2005 |