This program featuring Bill Loving - psychiatrist and specialist in Addiction Medicine - is for patients, their families, counselors, and health care workers who are dealing with alcoholism and drug addiction. Dr. Loving explains why these are referred to as diseases. He clearly discusses how the brain is affected and how the reward center of the brain is "hijacked". He also gives practical, effective, and hopeful guidance for dealing with the problem. An appendix includes information on the evolution of AA, AA tips, dual diagnosis, family involvement, prescription medicines, and drugs that stimulate the reward center.

Dr. Loving is a board-certified psychiatrist (1980) with thirty years experience who is also board-certified by American Society of Addiction Medicine (1989). After twenty years practicing neuropsychiatry, he now devotes his time to treating chemically dependent patients and many who also have psychiatric disorders or with dual diagnosis. He is Medical Director at Texas Star Recovery Program in Austin, Texas.