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The HAMS book is a comprehensive guide to alcohol harm reduction strategies for safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting altogether. The program outlined in the HAMS book consists of 17 optional elements and a harm reduction toolbox which you can use to build your own individualized alcohol harm reduction program.

This book also contains detailed information about how alcohol interacts with the body and the brain, as well as a section on harm reduction in a larger societal context. If you want to change your drinking for the better thenthis is the book for you.

The table of contents will give you an idea of what this book is about:

CONTENTS

• PART I: BETTER IS BETTER - THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF HARM REDUCTION

• Chapter One: Introducing Harm Reduction for Alcohol
• Chapter Two: How the HAMS Approach Works

• PART II: HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN ALCOHOL HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM - THE HAMS ELEMENTS

• Chapter Three: Weighing the Pros and Cons of Your Drinking
• Chapter Four: Choosing Your Drinking Goal
• Chapter Five: Risk Ranking
• Chapter Six: The Alcohol Harm Reduction Toolbox
• Chapter Seven: Making Your Plan
• Chapter Eight: Alcohol-Free Time
• Chapter Nine: Coping With Life Without Relying on Booze
• Chapter Ten: Alcohol and Outside Issues
• Chapter Eleven: Having Fun Without Booze
• Chapter Twelve: You Are What You Believe
• Chapter Thirteen: Charting and Measuring
• Chapter Fourteen: Tweaking the Plan
• Chapter Fifteen: Damage Control: Dealing With Slips, Setbacks, and Ricochets
• Chapter Sixteen: Patience, Practice, and Persistence
• Chapter Seventeen: Graduating, Staying, or Returning
• Chapter Eighteen: Praise yourself for every success
• Chapter Nineteen: Moving at Your Own Pace

• PART III: EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ALCOHOL*
  *But you got told to go to AA and not to ask

• Chapter Twenty: Alcohol and the brain
• Chapter Twenty One: Alcohol and the body
• Chapter Twenty Two: Preventing Alcohol Withdrawal
• Chapter Twenty Three: Alcohol Tolerance
• Chapter Twenty Four: Hangover
• Chapter Twenty Five: Preventing Alcoholic blackouts
• Chapter Twenty Six: Facts and myths about cross addiction and cross tolerance

• PART IV: HARM REDUCTION IN CONTEXT

• Chapter Twenty Seven: Harm Reduction Information for Friends and Family of Drinkers
• Chapter Twenty Eight: The HAMS Support Group
• Chapter Twenty Nine: Harm Reduction and the Stages of Change Model
• Chapter Thirty: Alcohol, Individual and Environment
• Chapter Thirty One: How the Meaning of the Word "Alcoholism" Has Changed
• Chapter Thirty Two: To the Health Care Professional

• APPENDICES

• APPENDIX I: Alcohol and Drug Interactions
• APPENDIX II: BAC Charts
• APPENDIX III: Naltrexone and the Magic of Pharmacological Extinction
• APPENDIX IV: How Effective Is AA and 12 Step Treatment?
• APPENDIX V: Carbs, Sugar, and Alcohol Content of Various Alcoholic Drinks