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Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System

Autor Lonny Shavelson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2002

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“Deeply felt, deftly rendered, stunningly informative and often enraging” (Publishers Weekly), Hooked appears as we are finally waking up to the inadequacies of our current drug-rehab policies. With court-mandated rehab being debated across the country, Shavelson’s in-depth look at the struggles of five addicts as they travel through the treatment maze makes a powerful case for reform.
Highly readable and shaped by Shavelson’s experience as a journalist and physician, Hooked takes us through the anguishing “intake” and controversial House meetings, inside counselors’ and judges’ offices where many treatment decisions are made, and to prison cells where, under current policies, many addicts end up. It explores the links between drug addiction, mental illness, and trauma, including child abuse—links often ignored by current rehab efforts—and argues for an integrated approach that treats the roots of drug abuse, not just the behavior itself.
Hailed as “compelling” and “heartbreaking” (Time Out), Hooked offers a provocative, honest look at the seemingly intractable issue of drug addiction, and offers powerful alternatives to our current policies.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781565847798
ISBN-10: 1565847792
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: New Press
Colecția The New Press

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"An essential look at an all-too-real problem." —San Francisco Chronicle

"A sensitive reflection on the public and private impact of drug-abuse programs." —Booklist

"Shavelson has provided a valuable service. . . . He has given those entrapped in a web of addiction, poverty, homelessness, mental illness, and uncoordinated care a face and a voice." —Journal of the American Medical Association

Notă biografică

Lonny Shavelson is a writer, photojournalist, and physician whose articles and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, People, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, and many other publications. He is also the author of A Chosen Death, and lives in Berkeley, California.

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