Research Catalog

Title

Hooked : five addicts challenge our misguided drug rehab system / Lonny Shavelson.

Author

Shavelson, Lonny

Publication

New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, 2001.

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Details

Description

310 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Follows the lives of five narcotics addicts for two years, as they move through various drug rehabilitation programs in San Francisco.
• Lonny Shavelson takes an unprecedented journey into the lives of addicts struggling to get clean. Shavelson, a noted physician, photographer, and journalist, trailed five addicts for two years through different California drug rehabilitation programs, some voluntary and others court-mandated. He follows addicts behind the closed doors of rehabilitation centers, doctors' offices, and judges' chambers, and, often, back to the street. Defying expectations about drug treatment and how it works, Hooked highlights the links between drug addiction, mental illness, and trauma, including child abuse--links that are too often overlooked by current treatment efforts. Shavelson argues for an integrated approach to drug treatment that addresses the root causes of drug abuse, not just its outward behaviors.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Substance-Related Disorders > rehabilitation
• Substance Abuse Treatment Centers
• Substance-Related Disorders > therapy
• Drug addicts > Rehabilitation > San Francisco > Case studies
• Drug addicts > San Francisco > Biography
• Drug abuse > San Francisco > Case studies
• San Francisco
• California

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Biographies
• Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1: Treatment on demand: Mike, Darlene, and Darrell. Introduction: from craziness to hope ; Intake ; The streets ; Nobody volunteers for drug treatment ; Double trouble: the war zone of dual diagnosis ; The therapeutic community--Walden House ; Harm reduction ; Euphoria ; Case management ; Relapse prevention ; Relapse -- pt. 2: We demand your treatment: Glenda and Crystal: year one, Mike, Darlene, and Darrell: year two. Introduction: Coerced treatment ; The death prevention team ; Drug court ; The county jail ; Do I have to have these dreams? ; Afterword: Does treatment work? ; Political update: December 2000 ; Methods.

ISBN

1565846842 (hc.)

LCCN

^^^00067556^

OCLC

• 45446142
• SCSB-10051236

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library