Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1565847792
ISBN 13
9781565847798
Category
Substance Abuse
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
320
Description
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System by Lonny Shavelson follows five San Franciscans struggling with substance abuse as they seek help from drug rehab facilities. From their stories of relapse and recovery, Shavelson draws some conclusions about America’s rehab systems, finding them too unforgiving, badly equipped to treat drug addicts with psychological disorders, and unable to treat the underlying causes of drug addiction in people’s lives. The book also provides thorough and insightful portraits of the five people whom Shavelson follows. It concludes with his beliefs about which policies that the drug rehab system could adopt to become more effective.
Number of Copies
1
