Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Recovery RevolutionCondition: NewEAN: 9780231176385ISBN: 9780231176385Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/02/2017Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Claire ClarkLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United StatesISBN-10: 0231176384Description: In the 1960s, as illegal drug use grew from a fringe issue to a pervasive public concern, a new industry arose to treat the addiction epidemic. Over the next five decades, the industry's leaders promised to rehabilitate the casualties of the drug culture even as incarceration rates for drug-related offenses climbed. In this history of addiction treatment, Claire D. Clark traces the political shift from the radical communitarianism of the 1960s to the conservatism of the Reagan era, uncovering the forgotten origins of today's recovery movement. Based on extensive interviews with drug-rehabilitation professionals and archival research, The Recovery Revolution locates the history of treatment activists' influence on the development of American drug policy. Synanon, a controversial drug-treatment program launched in California in 1958, emphasized a community-based approach to rehabilitation. Its associates helped develop the therapeutic community (TC) model, which encouraged peer confrontation as a path to recovery. As TC treatment pioneers made mutual aid profitable, the model attracted powerful supporters and spread rapidly throughout the country.The TC approach was supported as part of the Nixon administration's "law-and-order" policies, favored in the Reagan administration's antidrug campaigns, and remained relevant amid the turbulent drug policies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. While many contemporary critics characterize American drug policy as simply the expression of moralizing conservatism or a mask for racial oppression, Clark recounts the complicated legacy of the "ex-addict" activists who turned drug treatment into both a product and a political symbol that promoted the impossible dream of a drug-free America.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, MedicineRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Recovery Revolution
Title: The Recovery Revolution
EAN: 9780231176385
ISBN: 9780231176385
Release Date: 05/02/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States
ISBN-10: 0231176384
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Recovery Revolution : the Battle over Addiction Treatment in the United States
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Social History, United States / 21st Century, Psychopathology / Addiction
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Claire Clark
Subject Area: Psychology, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
