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Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
by Sheff, David
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 054784865X
- ISBN 13
- 9780547848655
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Synopsis
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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- More Than Words Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOS-E-04b-01775
- Title
- Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
- Author
- Sheff, David
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 054784865X
- ISBN 13
- 9780547848655
- Publisher
- Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Ma
- This edition first published
- 2013-04-02
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About More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
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