Free from Addiction: In the Face of Drugs, AIDS and Other Enemies of Society

Free from Addiction takes addiction as a single problem with many forms. César Gálvez and Rafael Escandón look at what drugs, alcohol, gambling, pornography, unhealthy relationships and compulsive media use have in common, and give a practical approach to recognising the pattern and breaking it.

What’s inside Free from Addiction

Most addiction books are about one substance. This one is about the mechanism underneath all of them — how dependency takes hold, why willpower alone fails, and what actually reverses it. That makes it useful for behaviours people do not usually name as addictions.

The tone is positive rather than clinical. It is written to encourage self-control and better choices, with practical steps, and it does not treat the reader as a case.

• The characteristics shared by all forms of addiction
• How addictive behaviour develops
• Drugs, alcohol, gambling, pornography and media
• Practical steps toward self-control
• Supporting someone in addiction
• A positive, recovery-focused approach

Who this book is for

For anyone struggling with a dependency, and for the people around them — parents, spouses, pastors. It is used in church recovery programmes and youth ministry, where the broader definition of addiction is the useful one.

It is not a clinical treatment programme. Severe addiction needs professional help, and the book says so.

About the author and publisher

César Gálvez and Rafael Escandón wrote this title for Editorial Safeliz.

Free from Addiction sits in our Health & Nutrition range with Positive Mind and Cracking the Stress Problem.

Questions about this book

Does it cover pornography?

Yes, alongside drugs, alcohol, gambling and compulsive media use.

Is it for the addict or the family?

Both. There is material for the person and for those supporting them.

Is it clinical?

No. It is practical and encouraging, written for general readers.

Is it suitable for youth ministry?

Yes. The broad definition of addiction makes it useful for teenagers.

Is it Christian?

Yes, in its approach to self-control and hope, though the content is practical rather than doctrinal.