Staying Sober, written by Terry Gorski, explains addictive disease, Post Acute Withdrawal (PAW), recovery, partial recovery, mistaken beliefs about recovery and relapse, the relapse process, relapse prevention therapy and the role of family involvement and relapse prevention support groups.

In order to understand recovery and relapse prevention, it is necessary to understand addictive disease.  Some people fail to recover because they do not understand their addiction and, therefore, fail to do what is necessary to avoid relapse.  The text is organized to parallel the recovery education process so the book, Staying Sober can be used as a powerful therapeutic reading assignment with clients.