by Doug Thorburn
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For those who may have alcoholics in their personal or professional lives, this book describes the indicators of alcoholism, many of which seem too subtle and innocuous to suggest addiction. Listing more than 80 alcoholic forms of behavior and clues, such as the supreme-being complex and mental confusion, this guide links physical signs and behavioral changes to the various stages, explaining the brain chemistry that impels the afflicted person to drink addictively and act destructively. A compelling case for awareness and identification of alcohol-related symptoms and an attempt to avoid tragic and unsatisfactory events and outcomes, this behavioral examination is supplemented with endnotes, a bibliography, and recommendations for courses of action. The research conducted for this book incorporated extensive interviews with medical professionals and hundreds of recovering alcoholics.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 wish i could give it 0 stars, 2008-02-20
this is the worst book ive ever read. everyone should keep a copy of it in their bathroom for when they run out of toilet paper.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Major breakthrough in alcohol/drug addiction, 2006-06-27
It is hard to believe that in our current era of fast evolution, addiction is still pretty much a disorder that very few people really understand. Fortunately we have people like Doug that took upon themselves to thoroughly research the problem and summarize their finding in a book for all of us.
Doug does a fantastic job at describing the real cause of alcoholism and drug addiction, a genetic disorder that prevent the predisposed people to digest chemicals like alcohol the way most of us do.
There's many well-known genetic disorders but addiction is throwing most people off track including doctor and "specialists" because the unlucky ones, about 10% of the population, when consuming, produce chemicals that affect their brain chemistry producing a negative change in their behavior leading most people to think that the same bad behavior is due to some mental problems. Doug clearly explains that addict don't consume because they have problems, they have problems because they consume chemicals. Any chemical. Legal or not.
But the most important thing about the book is that Doug will explain you how to recognize hidden addicts as early as possible so you can react immediately and hopefully avoiding paying the price of having an addict in your professional or personal life. Everybody can recognize an addict once he is on skid row but upon reading Dough's book, you will be surprised to learn that most addicts are highly functional and unbeknown to most people.
More than 80% of the crimes are committed by addicts. Any kind of crime, in all area. Everyday, either you are driving, dating, doing business, etc. you meet addicts. Not being able to recognize them early might be costly, financially and/or emotionally.
Get the book. It is great reading, great enlightment about a very old but serious problem.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
There IS a solution, 2006-06-24
A while back on an online discussion forum, a young woman was talking about her awful experience which was the result of her romantic relationship with an alcoholic/other drug addict. She didn't want to repeat the same mistake and asked if anyone knew of a book that would help her discern people with this kind of problem before she got to involved again. Of course, there was the standard "there isn't a book." I quickly posted and recommended Doug Thorburn's excellent "How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics." This astounding text gives excellent advice on how to recognize the sickness of alcoholism and other drug addiction before you invest your time, heart, wallet and sanity into a potentially dangerous individual. I've seen it all. I grew up in a family shot through the disease of alcoholism, have been romantically involved with addicts, have lost many friends to the disease, and am a recovering alcoholic of 15 years myself. Thorburn correctly puts all the pieces of the puzzle together. If you think you might need this book, you do. Get it and protect yourself.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Important Insights, 2006-06-24
Thorburn's book provides important insights into the disease of addiction and how it affects us all. Now I know, when I see these clues, to stay away!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
This book will teach you to avoid dangerous people. , 2006-06-21
Alcoholism researchers believe that roughly 10% of people in the U.S. have alcoholism, but I doubt that the proportion of people among your aquaintances whom you know to have alcoholism is anywhere near that figure. This is because most alcoholics are hidden and--they are not the steriotypical smelly old man passed out in an alleyway, but the people around us, and may be young, successful, and attractive.
These people are alcoholics because their behavior changes when they drink, and they become manipulative, spiteful, reckless, or other dangerous things. This sort of behavior, obviously, is dangerous not only to oneself, but to everyone nearby.
Given that alcoholism is so common, we are all put in danger every day of being hurt by an alcoholic, be it a friend or family member who betrays us, a scammer who takes our money, an authority figure who toys with us, or a drunk driver on the road.
This book provides the tools to see the danger in these people so that we can avoid them at the smallest risk to ourselves. It teaches to take little clues seriously, like belittling others or having a big ego, because these may be evidence of much worse. This knowledge is likely to be useful to everyone in any number of circumstances--will this person make a good lover? are my chilren doing what they say they are? will this person be a loyal employee? will this person pay back his loan?
This book is of great practical value, but I think, too, that people will find emotional release from reading the book as well. Because alcoholism is so common, most people have been hurt by an alcoholic but often do not understand what happened. They may even blame themselves. This book will help those people to understand what happened to them and how they can avoid being hurt in the future.
Some previous reviewers have complained of Mr. Thorburn's lack of credentials. I do not think that is particularly worrysome--the premise of the book, that we may recognize alcoholism by bad behavior more easily than by evidence of excess drinking, is sound and follows from a few basic facts about alcoholism: alcholism is very common, and alcoholism causes bad behavior. There may be an other explanation for a person's bad behavior, but since alcoholism is so common, it's the most likely.
Some of the clues listed in this book are based more on the author's experience than on hard scientific data. This is a problem with the book, but not one that could be avoided--the studies just have not been done yet. Because the book aligns well with my own experience of alcoholism, I would be surprised if the very much of this book is overturned in the light of future study, but a lot more work needs to be done.
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