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.
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Addicts -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
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Substance abuse -- Physiological aspects.
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ISBN |
9780547848655: $25.00 |
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054784865X |
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