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Clean, overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy, David Sheff

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Clean

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David Sheff

overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy

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 they have 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. -- Publisher descriptionAuthor David Sheff 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

I. America on drugs : -- This is your brain on drugs -- This is our nation on drugs -- II. Why we use : -- Everybody does it -- Helping kids grow up -- III. 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 -- IV. Getting clean : -- Finding treatment -- Detox -- V. Stating clean : -- Beginning treatment -- Primary treatment -- Treating drug problems with drugs -- Where does AA fit in? -- VI. Treating a chronic illness : -- Treating dual diagnosis -- Relapse prevention -- VII. Ending addiction : -- The future of prevention and treatment -- Fighting the right war -- Epilogue -- The Clean Paradigm in Twelve Steps -- Afterword -- Appendix: Just say know