Diseasing of America : how we allowed recovery zealots and the treatment industry to convince us we are out of control / by Stanton Peele, with a new preface.
- Title
- Diseasing of America : how we allowed recovery zealots and the treatment industry to convince us we are out of control / by Stanton Peele, with a new preface.
- Published by
- New York : Lexington Books, 1995.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 321 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Why addiction is not a disease (and why we should care that it not be treated as such) -- Alcoholism in America : how we discovered that alcohol is addictive and that so many people are alcoholics -- Who says what the truths about alcoholism are? -- Transforming the addict into a role model, and the person into an addict -- The addiction treatment industry -- What is addiction, and how do people get it? : values, intentions, self-restraint, and environments -- How people quit addictions, usually on their own -- Our confusion over law, morality, and addiction -- How we lost control of our world -- Creating a world worth living in : community, efficacy, and values.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Originally published: Diseasing of America : addiction treatment out of control. c1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-309) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain