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Author Sheff, David.

Title Clean : overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy / David Sheff.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  362.29 SHEFF    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  362.29 SHE    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  362.29 SHEFF    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  362.29 SHE    Billed
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  362.29 SHE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  362.29 S    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  362.69 SHE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  362.29 SHE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Non Fiction  362.29 SHEFF    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.29 SHEFF    Check Shelf

Description xxii, 374 pages ; 24 cm
Note "An Eamon Dolan book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [334]-353) and index.
Contents Pt. 1. America on drugs. This is your brain on drugs -- This is our nation on drugs -- Pt. 2. Why we use. Everybody does it -- Helping kids grow up -- Pt. 3. When drug use escalates. Use becomes abuse, and abuse becomes addiction -- Addicts aren't weak, selfish, or amoral-they're ill -- Don't deny addiction, don't enable it, and don't wait for an addic to hit bottom-he could die -- Intervention -- Pt IV. Getting clean. Finding treatment -- Detox -- Pt. 5. Staying clean. Beginning treatment -- Primary treatment -- Treating drug problems with drugs -- Where does AA fit in? -- Pt. VI. Treating a chronic illness. Treating dual diagnosis -- Relapse prevention -- Pt. VII. Ending addiction. The future of prevention and treatment -- Fighting the right war.
Summary The author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller "Beautiful Boy" offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with -- and triumphs over -- drug abuse.
Subject Substance abuse -- United States.
Addicts -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
Substance abuse -- Physiological aspects.
ISBN 9780547848655: $25.00
054784865X
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