Purchase
How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It
PublicAffairs
January 2007
On Sale: January 1, 2007
270 pages
ISBN: 1586483358
EAN: 9781586483357
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
In High Society, Joseph Califano points out that a
child who reaches twenty-one without smoking, using illegal
drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do
so-and chronicles the fearful cost in personal pain and
public dollars of our nation's failure to act on this
truth. Califano shows how substance abuse is the
culprit in violent and property crime, soaring Medicare and
Medicaid costs, family breakup, domestic violence, the
spread of AIDS, teen pregnancy, poverty, and low
productivity. He takes on alcohol and tobacco interests that
buy political protection with campaign contributions and
seed a culture of substance abuse among our nation's
children and teens. He explains the importance of parent
power, proposes revolutionary changes in prevention,
treatment, and criminal justice, and calls upon every
individual and institution to confront this plague that has
maimed and killed more Americans than all our wars, natural
catastrophes, and traffic accidents combined.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy