Now a New York Times Bestseller
 Healing the Addicted Brain
The Revolutionary Science Based Addiction Recovery Program
“[Dr. Urschel], in my opinion, is probably the number one… expert, in this particular [topic], on the globe... You’re going to want to pick it up and read it!”
Dr. Phil McGraw, on the Dr. Phil Show (5/8/09)
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About the BookOver seventeen million Americans abuse or are dependent on alcohol; seven million more
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Healing the Addicted Brain
By Dr. Harold Usrchel
288 pages
$15.99 | abuse or depend on other drugs. Even today, few people understand that addiction is a chronic medical disease, not a personal or moral weakness, consequently everything that you know about addiction treatment is wrong! Healing the Addicted Brain by Dr. Harold Urschel details the revolutionary science-based addiction recovery program that he formulated in order to increase success rates from the standard 20-30 percent to over 90%, if used in tandem with standard addiction therapies!
When used correctly, this book will help you:
- Develop a medication regimen to control cravings and heal damaged areas of the brain
- Identify thought distortions that trick the brain into rationalizing substance abuse
- Combat triggers and cravings
- Resist lapses / relapses
Recent scientific research has discovered new methods of addiction treatment, showing conclusively that addiction is a chronic physical disease that attacks the brain, damaging key parts of the pre-frontal lobe, which controls memory, judgment, impulse control, problem solving and other intellectual skills. This brain damage cannot be reversed with talking therapies alone; only select new medications can do that. When used with traditional therapies, these new medicines can literally work wonders.
Dr. Urschel’s new book, Healing the Addicted Brain, will teach you what happens inside the brain of an addict, why talking therapy alone will never be the answer, and how medications can help the brain repair itself, pushing the treatment success rate up as high as 90%!
Dr. Hal is also available to discuss the following topics…
Segment Ideas:
- Addiction & Celebrity – Why do they keep going back to rehab?
- Legalization of Marijuana – On the addictive qualities of Marijuana, and its effects on the brain and the body.
- Changing Your Thoughts from Pro-Addiction to Pro-Recovery – How “thought distortions,” or faulty logic can lead to addiction, and how the same thoughts can continue to lead the addict to justify his actions or put-off recovery.
- Binge Drinking – What behaviors college kids engage in today that can turn them into addicts tomorrow.
- Dealing with Dual Diagnoses – Over half of those who suffer from addictions also suffer from emotional / psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or other ailments.
- Treating Addiction Like a Chronic Sickness – How medication can affect addiction recovery.
- Hacking the Addicted Brain – Using the latest addiction treatment medications, therapies, and nutrition programs to reprogram the addicted brain.
- Health and Nutrition in Recovery – Using proper nutrition to aid in the recovery process.
- The Recovering Family – How addiction affects the family, and what behaviors can be enacted to stem the problem and prevent physical and psychological harm to bystanders.
- Combating Triggers and Cravings – Using medications and lifestyle changes in order to avoid lapses and relapses.
- Enabling – How certain family structures can enable an addict, without even knowing it.
- Addiction Recovery and Age – How addiction affects people of different age groups, and what groups are more at risk of becoming addicts.
- Codependency – The often inappropriate bond that develops between an addict and a friend, colleague, relative or authority figure who smoothes over the addicts problems at work, with the police and at home.
About Dr. Hal
 Dr. HAROLD C. URSCHEL III
Founder and CEO, the Urschel Recovery Science Institute Chief of Medical Strategy, EnterHealth Global LLC.
Dr. Urschel is the founder & CEO of the Urschel Recovery Science Institute, Dallas/Ft Worth’s only outpatient addiction treatment center. He is also Chief Medical Strategist of Enter Health, an addiction disease management company based in Dallas (www.EnterHealth.com). The primary goal of both the Recovery Science Institute and EnterHealth is to combine the best behavioral treatment methods with the latest scientifically proven medications to maximize a patient’s chances of a successful recovery from the life threatening and chronic medical disease of addiction.
Since 1998, Dr. Urschel has been implementing the Recovery Science program at two area hospitals and one world class addiction treatment residential facility, Enterhealth’s Life Recovery Center in North Texas. Because of Dr. Urschel’s success in bringing the latest scientific breakthroughs in addiction treatment research into his clinical treatment programs, his Recovery Science addiction treatment program has been utilized as the clinical addiction treatment program for the UT Southwestern Medical School, Department of Psychiatry.
In 2007, Dr. Urschel participated in a TV tour with celebrity race car driver and recovering alcoholic Al Unser Jr. and talked about the issues and challenges that were facing Al, and about the steps he was taking down the path to recovery. His interviews ran on NBC, ABC, Fox, and CBS morning shows across the country. Most recently, Dr. Urschel was featured on the Dr. Phil show, discussing his new book Healing the Addicted Brain and providing expert recovery advice for guests on the show. He has also written articles for, and been featured in, trade publications like Treatment, Workplace and Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly.
Dr. Urschel did his undergrad work at Princeton University and studied at both U.T. Southwestern Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania for graduate and medical training. Dr. Urschel is currently certified in both addiction and general psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Additionally, he earned a Masters in Management Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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