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Clean : overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy
Record details
- ISBN: 054784865X
- ISBN: 9780547848655 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
xxii, 374 p. ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "An Eamon Dolan book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 diagnosis ; Relapse prevention -- ENDING ADDICTION. The future of prevention and treatment ; Fighting the right war -- The Clean paradigm in 12 steps ; Just say Know. |