Winner of the 2002 Independent Publishers Book Award. Alcohol: Cradle to Grave contains the newspaper series that brought Montana journalist Eric Newhouse to the attention of Pulitzer Prize jurors. A thorough and revealing account of how alcohol courses through the daily life and traditions of Great Falls, Montana, Alcohol: Cradle to Grave chronicles the everyday impact of America's most popular drug of choice. Newhouse methodically tallies the societal costs of alcohol abuse in one community. His calculations are staggering, including millions of dollars annually for law enforcement, health care, foster care, domestic violence programs, welfare, special education, and corrections.

Alcohol: Cradle to Grave

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Newhouse, Eric

Addiction & Recovery

Hazelden

Faces of Recovery continues the report on how millions of American soldiers have faced the ultimate dilemma: kill the enemy or risk being killed yourself. As documented in Eric Newhouse's earlier book, Faces of Combat, PTSD &amp; TBI, each choice traumatizes the brain. The trauma is cumulative: prolonged combat increases emotional and physical injury. This book also introduces a newly discovered complication, moral injury. It occurs when soldiers are ordered into a conflict they cannot morally justify, yet are forced to kill others to stay alive themselves. It happens when soldiers feel their chain of command has betrayed or abandoned them. It can also occur when a soldier has violated their own moral code, for example by killing civilians to avenge the death of friends, or when they fail to protect the buddies who have been watching their backs. Faces of Recovery looks at the personal steps each veteran must take to feel accepted again in society. These include forgiveness, making atonement, self-forgiveness, and physical exercise to help the brain reduce depression and anxiety.

Faces of Recovery

Mental Health

Issues Press

Eric Newhouse, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper columns reprinted in this book, is a veteran newspaper reporter. As such, he's seen the flotsam and jetsam of human life: the divorces, lost jobs, battered wives, abused children, crime, drunken drivers, car wrecks, and medical bills. And, he's come to the conclusion that alcohol is behind much of it. Take away the alcohol and much of the human tragedy goes away. This book, Alcohol: Cradle to Grave, offers a compelling, day-in-the-life look at how the disease of alcoholism affects the state of Montana, as a microcosm of the national problem. Newhouse offers us a compelling and comprehensive understanding of the complexity, magnitude, and cost of alcohol abuse. It's an unflinching look at the largely unnoticed river of booze that is flooding our towns, our communities, and our daily lives - with suggestions on how to channel the flow.

Business & Money

Economics

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Newhouse issues a call to help America s returning warriors in his latest book, Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist s Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans. His concern is that one-third to one-half of the 1.6 million men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan can be expected to return home with one or all three emotional disorders post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD), traumatic brain injury(TBI), or major depression. But the Veterans Administration is already overloaded in treating soldiers from previous conflicts, primarily Vietnam vets who never received the help they needed and deserved. Faces of Combat shows how the suicide of a previously deployed National Guardsman galvanized Montana officials to become a model state in assessing the mental health of its soldiers, taking additional steps that should become the norm nationwide. Soldiers tell their heartbreaking stories, what happened to them in battle and what happened when they came home. They explain their uncontrollable rage, alcoholism, nightmares, flashbacks, divorce, joblessness and homelessness. They talk about the battlefield reactions to civilian provocations that are landing too many of them in jail. A female combat photographer, Jamie Bender, talks about the damage that resulted from taking pictures in a field littered with body parts and being ordered not to cry at the memorial services for four of her dead friends. Her photographs illustrate this book. Other female soldiers discuss the trauma of being raped by fellow American soldiers. Finally, Faces of Combat evaluates the VA s conventional treatment, which is generally inadequate even if available, and suggests some alternative treatments that appear to be working in private practice. It also provides lists of resources for vets across the country.

Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans

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Alcohol: Cradle to Grave

Faces of Recovery

Alcohol: Cradle to Grave

Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans