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Also by Joseph A. Califano Jr.:

High Society, January 2007
Hardcover
Women Under the Influence, December 2005
Paperback

HIGH SOCIETY
By: Joseph A. Califano Jr.

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
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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.

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