Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
by Lonny Shavelson
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Lonny Shavelson is a writer, photojournalist, and physician whose articles and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, People, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and Mother Jones, among many other publications
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 362.29 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare Mental illness Substance abuse
- LCC
- HV5833 .S25 .S53 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Drug habits. Drug abuse
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- English
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