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No Big Deal: A Guide to Recovery from Addictions
ISBN  0955367700


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NO BIG DEAL : A Guide to Recovery from Addictions  by John Coats

An Invaluable Companion to Recovery by Steve Roberts

I commend this book wholeheartedly to anyone who knows that their life has become unmanageable due to substance misuse or any compulsive behaviour that has become a problem to them.

This book absolutely achieves its aim - to provide a guide to getting and staying well using the 12-step programme. To enable the reader to benefit from such an aim, the work must be extremely readable, very comprehensive, motivating and packed full of easily understandable, straightforward advice and explanation. No Big Deal achieves all of this in abundance.

The style is personable and extremely readable. I found it to be a compelling read, which was un-put-downable right from the introduction. Its pages sustained and inspired me throughout. It does not purport to be a theoretical or academic overview of addiction but it implores the reader to stop and think at every corner of their journey more than any such academic work ever would. The author's story and personality permeate this book's pages. Not only is he happy to share his own experiences of addictive disorder but the richness of the language and imaginative explanations illuminate the true joy of recovery.

I particularly liked the use of actions proposed throughout the book. Unlike many so-called self-help manuals, No Big Deal does not claim that it will cure the reader but by following the clear instructions the reader will find remission from their ailment. It provides signposts on where and how to get help as well as throwing reassuring light on the new and potentially bewildering world of recovery that the reader will find themselves in.

As a therapist in a treatment centre, I have found this book to be a hugely beneficial source of information and inspiration!

No Big Deal is a pleasure to read and it is certain to be an invaluable companion to a great many people on their journey towards recovery and beyond.

Steve Roberts


FOREWORD
By Dr Robert M.H. Lefever
Founder of The PROMIS Recovery Centre

Treatment centres are staff-intensive and therefore expensive. Nonetheless, they have a place in helping a larger number of addicts of one kind or another to get into recovery than would otherwise do so. Indeed, that is their only function. Even so, they are not always necessary. Some ‘hopeless cases’ do get better primarily through working the Twelve Step programme in ‘the rooms’ (meeting places) of the Anonymous Fellowships such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. John Coats is one such and all credit to him. Even more credit to him for writing this book and reaching out to encourage and help others who could see no end to their recurrent relapses.

Working the Twelve Steps cannot be done alone or by anyone else on our behalf. It has to be done on a day-to-day basis by each of us – on the days when we feel like doing so and also on the days that we do not. It is the persistence that pays dividends. Having a practical guide, as in this book, is helpful but it has to be used as a blueprint for action rather than as an interesting tome to be read and discussed. The Twelve Steps are an action programme or they are nothing. Similarly, they are a spiritual programme or they are nothing. Addiction is a disease of the human spirit. It eats away at hope, love, trust, honour, innocence and all the beautiful spiritual values that give life its significance. There are physical, mental, emotional, marital, professional, social, economic and all sorts of other consequences  (addiction is the most wide-ranging of all conditions in the damage that it can cause). But treating any or all of these consequences still leaves the cause unchecked and ready to wreak havoc again.

A disease of hope, love, trust, honour and innocence has to be treated with hope, love, trust, honour and innocence. That’s what the Twelve Steps actually do. And that is what this book bravely attempts to reveal.


Dr Robert Lefever
Director of Promis
June 2006

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