Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America?s Greatest Tragedy

Sheff, David

ISBN 10: 054784865X / ISBN 13: 9780547848655

Published by Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013

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Like new hard cover edition with like new dust jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Clean. Tight binding. No markings. 374 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America?s Greatest Tragedy
• Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 054784865X
• ISBN 13: 9780547848655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New

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Synopsis

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, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. The existing treatment system, including Twelve Step programs and rehabs, has helped some, but it has failed to help many more, and David Sheff explains why. He spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors, and addicts and their families to learn how addiction works and what can effectively treat it. Clean offers clear, cogent counsel for parents and others who want to prevent drug problems and for addicts and their loved ones no matter what stage of the illness they’re in. But it is also a book for all of us — a powerful rethinking of the greatest public health challenge of our time.

About the Author

DAVID SHEFF is the author of several books, including the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir Beautiful Boy. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, and many other publications. His ongoing research and reporting on the science of addiction earned him a place on Time magazine's list of the World's Most Influential People. Sheff and his family live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit David at DavidSheff.com, and on Twitter @david_sheff.