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The Selfish Brain: Learning From Addiction Hardcover - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Robert L. DuPont


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The Selfish Brain: Learning From Addiction takes a comprehensive, no-holds-barred look at the easy path to drug addiction and the tough road to recovery. Written in an easy-to-understand style, this book can help people confront addiction in their own lives and in their families by exploring the biological roots of addiction and the way addicts are allowed to deny their addiction by compassionate, well-meaning people. Based on his experience as a specialist on addiction and as a policymaker, former drug czar Robert L. DuPont, M.D., advocates "tough-love" measures to strip away the denial that allows addicts to remain trapped in their destructive habit and place them on the road to recovery. He examines treatment options, especially 12-step programs, which he believes are the most effective path to recovery.

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  • Title The Selfish Brain: Learning From Addiction
  • Author Robert L. DuPont
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Washington, DC
  • Date 1997-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780880486866 / 0880486864
  • Weight 2.12 lbs (0.96 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.35 x 1.38 in (23.67 x 16.13 x 3.51 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1470
  • Library of Congress subjects Substance abuse, Recovering addicts
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96008593
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.29

About the author

Robert L. DuPont, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. Dr. DuPont is a practicing psychiatrist who has specialized in the prevention and treatment of addiction to alcohol and other drugs for more than two decades. He was the first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), serving under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Dr. DuPont was also the second director of the White House drug abuse prevention office, a position now known as the drug czar. He is president of a nonprofit research organization, the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., and vice president of Bensinger, DuPont, and Associates, a national consulting firm specializing in the problems of addiction in the workplace. A second major area of professional interest is anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He was the founding president of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

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