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About our Lending Library

The 3 south bay SMART Recovery Meetings in the South Bay (San Jose Monday & Wednesday, and Los Gatos Friday), run a Netflix-style lending library out of the meetings. It basically works like this:

A number of the books to the right are a part of our lending library. If you are interested in borrowing one, come to any of the above-mentioned meetings on Mon-Weds-Fri. Ask any meeting facilitator about the book you are interested in, and we will procure it from our lending library, and bring it to the next meeting. Just give us a small cash deposit for the book, and keep it as long as you need to read it. Whenever you want you can swap it out with any facilitator for another book in our lending library. When you're done using our library we will refund you your deposit.

We feel this is a very useful service to offer and encourage our local SMART Recovery member to take advantage of this.

Books that are not listed as "Available in Lending Library" are still good reads and we recommend them, all books have links to online booksellers for purchase.

 
Resisting 12-Step Coercion
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book image Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment
Stanton Peele, Charles Bufe, Archie Brodsky

This book is a guide for the one million-plus Americans per year who face coerced religious indoctrination in the guise of alcohol or drug treatment. It outlines legal strategies and existing court decisions and shows how useless and sometimes harmful 12-step treatment can be. It also contains a considerable amount of material on the routine violation of standard medical ethics by addiction treatment providers, and examples of such violations.

"Powerful and penetrating analyses of what is wrong with U.S. substance-abuse policy today." —Peter Webster, International Journal of Drug Policy