The Drinking Woman: Revisited - Paperback

by Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer (Author)

What is it like today for the woman with a drinking problem? How does she know when she has crossed the fine line between social drinking and addiction? What can she do to help herself, and what can her family do to help her? Through an extensive and intimate series of interviews in halfway houses, women's groups, and with individuals across the country, Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer has uncovered the social dynamics that create problem-drinking among women. She has also visited with spouses and children who have suffered because of a wife's and/or a mother's addiction. She has gathered a list of resources which will help a woman with a drinking problem pick up the pieces. Visit www.answersforthedrinkingwoman.com as well as www.answersforteens.com for more information and to sign up for the blogs.

Author Biography

Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer is the author of For Teenagers Living with a Parent Who Abuses Alcohol/Drugs, and A Teenagers Guide to Living with an Alcoholic Parent, and You and Your Alcoholic Parent. Her articles have been issued both here and abroad in the Sunday New York Times, the Denver Post, Toronto Star, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), Elle, and the Sunday Hartford Courant. She has lectured at colleges throughout the United States including Colorado Mountain College, Chautauqua Institution, Touro College, Marymount Manhattan College, Long Island University, and at the Council on Social Work Education, and the New York Task Force. She has been a guest on such radio shows as Iowa Public Radio, Steve McFarland, Healthline, and View From Over Here and on many television shows including AM, Suburban Today, and Good Morning America.