Clean : Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy Paperback - 2014 - 1st Edition
by David Sheff
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The author of the #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 Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Date 2014
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0544112326I4N00
- ISBN 9780544112322 / 0544112326
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.28 x 1.04 in (20.37 x 13.41 x 2.64 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013372260
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.29
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Summary
Those facts are the foundation of Clean, a new paradigm for preventing drug abuse and treating addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment. Twelve Step approaches have helped many, but they have failed to help many more, and Sheff explains why. He spent time with scores of scientists, social workers, and addicts and their families, to find out what can work, and just as important, how addiction itself works. Clean offers clear, cogent counsel 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 one of the greatest public health challenges of our time.
From the rear cover
A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research
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. The existing addiction treatments, including Twelve Step programs and rehabs, have helped some, but it has failed to help many more. To discover why, David Sheff spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors, and addicts and their families, and explored the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. In Clean, he reveals how addiction really works, and how we can combat it.
A guide for those affected by addiction, but also a manifesto . . . for America as it confronts its drug problem. [Sheff] has performed a vital service by compiling sensible advice on a subject for which sensible advice is in short supply. New York Times Book Review
As a journalist, father, and clear-eyed chronicler of addiction, David Sheff is without peer. Sanjay Gupta, M.D., chief medical correspondent, CNN
David Sheff is the author of several books, including the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir Beautiful Boy. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, and many other publications. Sheff s ongoing research and reporting on the science of addiction earned him a place on Time magazine s list of the world s most influential people. Sheff and his family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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