SOBER...AND STAYING THAT WAY

THE MISSING LINK IN THE CURE FOR ALCOHOLISM

SUSAN POWTER

Stop the Sanity!, Susan Powter's first best-selling book, changed the way millions of people look at the diet and fitness industry and helped them get lean, strong, and healthy. Now, in Sober...and Staying That Way, Susan once again shares a practical and proven program: THE MISSING LINK IN THE TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOLISM.

**It clearly and understandably exposes how the government, the hospitality industry, current recovery thinking, and the advertising industry are making sure you don't get the information you need in order to stay sober.
**It makes the all-important biochemical connection for every suffering alcoholic, giving the simple and biochemical tricks of the sobriety trade...

This book isn't written for alcoholics. It is written for everyone who wants to participate in the solution to a problem that affects us all. Alcoholism is the number-one killer of young adults in the United States, and the third largest killer in our country. If you are interested in the missing link you must:
**Make the connection between alcoholism and disease
** Understand the biochemistry of alcoholics
**Make the connection between politics, profit, powerful lobbists, and your sobriety
**Wipe out the morality, weakness-of-will, and powerlessness thinking of current recovery programs

You will be able to"
**Heal the damage caused by alcoholism
**Support the biochemical enviroment for sobriety
** Balance your glucose-deprived brain
**Get away forever from the shame-based sober programs and work toward integrating nearly four decades of well-established research with information that is now available to you and those you love for the treatment of the disease of alcoholism.

Millions of people are alcoholics and countless more family members, friends, and loved ones are affected by this insidious disease.

As an eleven year-old child in a family ravaged by alcoholism, Susan Powter was one of the youngest members of ALANON. In recent years she has had to confront this disease in herself. Her national prominence as a fitness expert and the author of Stop the Insanity! (twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, including nine weeks at number one) made this all the more difficult and shameful for her. But with the same fierce determination that took her on a journey to understand and cure her obesity, she set out to find answers to her own alcoholism.

For almost forty years it has been known that alcoholism is a biochemical disease. In extreme exasperation, Powter asks the question," Why have we just accepted the fact that there is no cure for alcoholism and that the only treatment available is through organizations like AA? Disease talk doesn't cure." Some experts say that Alcoholics Anonymous has a 7 to 12 percent recovery rate. Illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer all have treatments. We wouldn't stand for inactivity in the medical professions when it comes to these diseases, so why, Powter asks, do we stand for it when it comes to alcoholism? In Sober...and Staying That Way: The Missing Link in the Cure for Alcoholism, Powter exposes the truth behind the years of documented research into alcoholism.