The New Addiction Treatment

From Good Intentions and Bad Intuitions to Data, Performance, and Technology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvDavid A. Patterson Silver Wolf,Washington University in St. Louis) Patterson Silver Wolf, David A. (Associate Professor, Associate Professor,David A Patterson Silver Wolf

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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.The New Addiction Treatment 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. The former has about an 80% success rate, the latter about an 80% failure rate.Drawing from his own experience as a former patient and person in long-term recovery, as well as his 22 years as a clinician, professor, and researcher, Patterson Silver Wolf describes many of the impediments to effective treatment today. This book offers a plausible and cost-effective way to disrupt the dismal status quo and realistically aspire to a higher success rate for everyone who receives professional help for a substance use disorder.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-12
Mått238 x 163 x 17 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197601372

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David A. Patterson Silver Wolf, PhD, is Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis' Brown School of Social Work. Dr. Patterson Silver Wolf is a faculty scholar in the Washington University Institute for Public Health, Co-Director of the Collaboration on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America (CRISMA), Research Director in the Buder Center and serves as training faculty for two NIH-funded (T32) training programs at the Brown School, including the Transdisciplinary Training in Addictions Research program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Patterson Silver Wolf investigates how to best implement evidence-based interventions and technology tools into community-based services. He is the director of the Community Academic Partnership on Addiction (CAPA) and is the Chief Research Officer at CAPA Clinics in St. Louis, Missouri area. Before entering academics, he spent over fifteen years providing clinical services in the substance use disorder treatment field and hasbeen in recovery since 1989.

Preface PART ONE: THE PROBLEMIntroduction Chapter 1 How Big is Big? Chapter 2 Failure is an Option Chapter 3 How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Modern Treatment Chapter 4 The Holy Trinity Chapter 5 The Best Laid Plans PART TWO: THE SOLUTION Chapter 6 A Vision Chapter 7 The Fence or the Ambulance Chapter 8 Ties That Bind Chapter 9 First Do No Harm Chapter 10 If it Works for Them, Why Not Us? PART THREE: THE NEW ADDICTION TREATMENT Chapter 11 The 23rd Century Solution Conclusion Bibliography Glossary Appendices

The New Addiction Treatment is a fascinating excursion into the field. Part personal ethnography, part scholarly overview, David Patterson Silver Wolf's book is an engaging melding of the author's personal lived experience with addiction, recovery, and subsequent career as an eminently successful behavioral scientist who is abreast of the latest developments in helping people recover from abusing addictive substances.... The underlying message is one of hope - genuinely effective therapies are available to help persons seeking sobriety. Moreover there are useful techniques that can be ethically used to motivate such persons to seek treatment in the first place. And to remain engaged in treatment during the long period of time needed to promote enduring recovery.