The new addiction treatment : from good intentions and bad intuitions to data, performance, and technology / Patterson Silver Wolf David.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson Silver Wolf, David, 1963-2021, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug addiction--Treatment--United States.

Drug addiction.

Alcoholism--Treatment--United States.

Alcoholism.

Drug abuse--Treatment--United States.

Drug abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Addiction is the United States' most pervasive and damaging public health problem, yet most Americans receive care that results in a failure rate that is both astronomically high and shielded from public view. This book examines the current state of the addiction treatment business and explores the reasons why (unlike those for all other behavioral, psychological, or neurological disorders) the treatment of addiction has been stagnant and little improved since the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. After describing the size and scope of the problem and examining actual recovery rates for those who undergo treatment, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf asserts that there are effectively two kinds of treatment regimes in the United States: those that medical doctors receive, and those for the rest of us.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-760138-3

0-19-760140-5

0-19-760139-1