Clean : Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy Hardcover - 2013
by David Sheff
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- Hardcover
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.
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- Title Clean : Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
- Author David Sheff
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston, MA
- Date 2013
- Bookseller's Inventory # G054784865XI4N00
- ISBN 9780547848655 / 054784865X
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.4 x 1.4 in (22.86 x 16.26 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Substance abuse - United States, Substance abuse - Physiological aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013000387
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.29
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Summary
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.
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.
