Research Catalog

Title

Welcome to methadonia : a social worker's candid account of life in a methadone clinic / Rachel Greene Baldino.

Author

Baldino, Rachel Greene, 1967-

Publication

Harrisburg, PA : White Hat Communications, c2000.

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Description

210 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"With her Master of Social Work diploma still fresh in her hands, Rachel Greene Baldino embarked on a year-long journey as a new professional in a methadone clinic. She was ecstatic that she would be starting her career in a full-fledged counselor's position. But was she prepared for what lay ahead? Her personal account of the year that followed will give you an eye-opening glimpse into a place called "methadonia." Welcome to Methadonia: a Social Worker's Candid Account of Life in a Methadone Clinic captures the sights, sounds, smells, and emotions found in such a place. The author honestly and openly describes her feelings about the work and the people, and describes in graphic terms what she observed during her year there. Besides chronicling her year as a counselor in a methadone setting, Baldino makes recommendations for changes to the treatment system."--Jacket.

Subject

• Drug addicts > Rehabilitation > United States
• Heroin abuse > Treatment > United States
• Methadone maintenance > United States
• Social work with drug addicts > United States

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Welcome to "methadonia" -- Why I took the job -- Heroin addiction -- Getting in: the intake interview -- Who ends up in a methadone clinic? -- Starting treatment -- The benefits of methadone treatment -- The self-medicating theory -- Triggers -- The needle -- Prostitution -- Pimps and dealers -- Methadone and pregnancy -- The children of methadone clients -- The harm reduction treatment model -- A clear and present danger -- Methadone counselor as "pseudo-cop" -- Transference -- Countertransference -- Working with groups -- The humiliation of urinalysis -- "Getting over on the man" -- Epiphany -- Mentoring -- "Counselor pleasers" -- Axis II clients -- When a client dies -- The counseling staff -- A flood of tears -- The challenge of defining addiction -- Methadone treatment and the recovery movement -- Divisions and conflicts of class -- A power imbalance -- The last straw -- Tragedy at the clinic -- "Forgiveness artists" -- A new vision of treatment.

ISBN

1929109024

LCCN

^^^00009137^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library