Freedom from Addiction Book Series

Freedom from Addiction Understand Addiction: Learn how it’s created, how it can be controlled, and how it can be prevented by therapist Dr. Alexander Polgar, Ph.D.

The addiction recovery series will help all those struggling with addiction and those who care about them. Addiction is unpacked in this easy to understand four-book series. Learn why some people are addicts, how you can manage your addiction and how we can stop the global pandemic of addiction. Sally tells you her story of addiction, recovery, and freedom. She is a character created by Dr. Alexander Polgar. Through these books, learn from Dr. Polgar’s scholarship and practice as a therapist developed over decades.

A new and readable resource for therapists, social and healthcare policy leaders, educators, social workers, and medical students.

The series was written to be read in this order:

Two: One Destined to Addiction the Other to be Free

Freedom: Sally Gets Sober and Starts to Grow Up

Finding Purpose and Meaning: Sally Survives Her Brief, Nasty Dance with Psychiatry

Beyond Addiction: Sally Discovers How to Think for Herself

Have you ever wondered why some people are addicts and others are not? Two: One Destined to Addiction the Other to be Free is the first book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. This book takes you on the journey of two characters, Sally and Tom. They tell their story of addiction.

Therapist Dr. Alexander Polgar comments on their experiences and provides an understanding of the nature of addiction. Readers will understand in a new and different way how addicts impact individuals, their friends, and families. This evidence-based psychosocial will explain how addicts are created and how this can be avoided. The number of addicts who become addicted is exponentially increasing.

This is a global problem that requires an explanation on which relative prevention and intervention strategies can be based.

Freedom: Sally Gets Sober and Starts to Grow Up is the second book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. Discover an addict’s story of substance abuse through the voice of the character Sally who could be anyone’s daughter, sister, or friend. Sally tells her story of the challenging journey to get and stay abstinent from all intoxicants.

The message is that the journey is tough and there are landmines along the way. Therapist Dr. Alexander Polgar interprets and comments on the story to highlight how to understand addiction. The book is a warning to people like Sally, and those who care about them. Explore the dangers. Prepare to successfully manage successfully this challenging but extremely rewarding process.

We all could be a Sally if specific conditions in a family are present. Read how Sally gets sober. Celebrate how she stays sober.

Finding Purpose and Meaning: Sally Survives Her Brief, Nasty Dance with Psychiatry is the second book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. The character Sally is an addict who struggles with substance abuse. Her story delves into the dark realm of how addicts struggling with abstinence are inadvertently intoxicated when a psychiatrist prescribed drugs to help her cope with the underlying problems her substance abuse hid by using.

There are dangers when dancing with biological psychiatry. The prescribed drugs are extensively explored in this volume. While some pay with their lives for the dance, others like Sally get off the dance floor to live another day and discover an altogether different life.

Abstinent, the addict finds purpose and meaning in their life as they start to explore the gifts of humanity they have been given.

Commenting on the story is longtime therapist, Dr. Alexander Polgar.

Beyond Addiction: Sally Discovers How to Think for Herself is the last of the four-book Freedom from Addiction series. The character Sally describes how she grew beyond her need to conform to group or “tribal” pressures.

While being tribal provided her with a sense of security, it came at a considerable cost. No longer willing to pay the price, Sally found better ways of coping with life’s challenges than having others tell her what to believe, value, and how to behave.

Sally discovered how to think for herself. Learn from this story all the many benefits that come from being your own person, free from negative controlling influences that hold you back.

Therapist Dr. Alexander Polgar interprets and comments on the story to highlight how to understand the relationship between tribes, addiction, and freedom.