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Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System (Paperback)
Book Description
For those addicts who can't afford the Betty Ford clinic, who often find
themselves on the wrong side of the law, on welfare and perhaps homeless, an
unnavigable labyrinth of government agencies and treatment programs presents
itself. Shavelson, a physician and photojournalist (A Chosen Death), accompanies
five San Francisco addicts through weeks-long waiting periods for treatment,
counseling sessions, harsh residential facilities and the "war" between zero
tolerance and "harm reduction" programs. In 1997, the city's new Treatment on
Demand program ("rehab for all addicts who seek it, within forty-eight hours")
had hundreds of takers. Addicted to alcohol, methamphetamines and heroin, and
with additional issues (often ignored by the drug treatment system) of past
child abuse, current spousal abuse and mental illness, Darrel, Darlene and Mike
sought treatment and agreed to be shadowed by Shavelson. |
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