Addiction : why can't they just stop? : new knowledge, new treatments, new hope /
Addiction : why can't they just stop? : new knowledge, new treatments, new hope /
edited by John Hoffman and Susan Froemke ; foreword by Sheila Nevins ; afterword by Susan Cheever ; [text by] David Sheff... [et al.].
- New York : Rodale, Inc., c2007.
- 251 p. : col. ill., 1 map ; 24 cm. ; cased.
Includes index. CW017, CW717, CW758, CW768 "Based on the HBO documentary series. Produced in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism"--Jacket.
Why can't they just stop? -- Addiction is a brain disease -- A disease of young people -- Treatment : the worst thing you can do is nothing -- A broken system : the tangled economics of treatment -- Recovery : it really is one day at a time.
Strives to break through the myths and explain what addiction really is, what causes it, and how to get the best available treatments.
9781594867156 1594867151
039697867153
2007296278
Drug addiction.
Alcoholism.
Substance abuse--Treatment
616.86
Includes index. CW017, CW717, CW758, CW768 "Based on the HBO documentary series. Produced in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism"--Jacket.
Why can't they just stop? -- Addiction is a brain disease -- A disease of young people -- Treatment : the worst thing you can do is nothing -- A broken system : the tangled economics of treatment -- Recovery : it really is one day at a time.
Strives to break through the myths and explain what addiction really is, what causes it, and how to get the best available treatments.
9781594867156 1594867151
039697867153
2007296278
Drug addiction.
Alcoholism.
Substance abuse--Treatment
616.86