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Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
400 pages ISBN: 054784865X EAN: 9780547848655 Kindle: B006R8PNJW Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a
moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most
likely to work are based on science — not on faith,
tradition, contrition, or wishful
thinking.
These facts are the foundation of
Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the
author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research
in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a
leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and
treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually
accompany it. The existing treatment system, including
Twelve Step programs and rehabs, has helped some, but it has
failed to help many more, and David Sheff explains why. He
spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors,
and addicts and their families to learn how addiction works
and what can effectively treat it. Clean offers
clear, cogent counsel for parents and others who want to
prevent drug problems and for addicts and their loved ones
no matter what stage of the illness they’re in. But it is
also a book for all of us — a powerful rethinking of the
greatest public health challenge of our time.
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