Clean, overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy, David Sheff
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Clean, overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy, David Sheff
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Clean
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electronic resource eBook
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David Sheff
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overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy
Summary
Author David Sheff 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
Table of contents
AMERICA ON DRUGS. This is your brain on drugs ; This is our nation on drugs -- WHY WE USE. Everybody does it ; Helping kids grow up -- 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 addict to hit bottom -- he could die ; Intervention -- GETTING CLEAN. Finding treatment ; Detox -- STAYING CLEAN. Beginning treatment ; Primary treatment ; Treating drug problems with drugs ; Where does AA fit in? -- TREATING A CHRONIC ILLNESS. Treating dual diagnoses ; Relapse prevention -- ENDING ADDICTION. The future of prevention and treatment ; Fighting the right war -- The Clean paradigm in 12 steps ; Just say Know
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