The Addiction Solution, Lloyd Sederer
The Addiction Solution, Lloyd Sederer
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The Addiction Solution
Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs

Author: Lloyd Sederer

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 5 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/08/2018


Synopsis

A groundbreaking, “timely and well-written” (Booklist, starred review) guide to addiction from a psychiatrist and public health doctor, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance use and abuse.

Written with warmth, accessibility, and vast authority, The Addiction Solution is a practical guide through the world of drug use and abuse and addiction treatment. Here, Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, brings together scientific and clinical knowledge, policy suggestions, and case studies to describe our current drug crisis and establish a clear path forward to recovery and health. In a time when so many people are affected by the addiction epidemic, when 142 people die of overdoses every day in the United States, principally from opioids, Sederer’s decades of wisdom and clinical experience are needed more than ever before.

With a timely focus on opioids, Sederer takes us through the proven essentials of addiction treatment and explains why so many of our current policies, like the lingering remnants of the War on Drugs, fail to help drug users, their families, and their wider communities. He identifies a key insight, often overlooked in popular and professional writing about addiction and its treatment: namely, that people who use drugs do so to meet specific needs, and that drugs may be the best solution those people currently have.

Writing with generosity and empathy about the many Americans who use illicit and prescribed substances, Sederer lays out specific, evidence-based, researched solutions to the prevention and problems of drug use, including exercise, medications, therapy, recovery programs, and community services. “Comprehensive…well-informed and accessible” (Kirkus Reviews), The Addiction Solution provides invaluable help, comfort, and hope.

About Lloyd Sederer

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, is a psychiatrist, public health doctor, and medical journalist. He is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health and a monthly regular on Tell Me Everything, the SiriusXM radio show hosted by John Fugelsang. His recent books include The Addiction SolutionImproving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight; and Controversies in Mental Health and the Addictions.  


Reviews

The Addiction Solution is an introduction to substance use disorders and abuse. Dr Sederer goes through a very thorough report on the past, the present, and what we can/should expect of the future. I found its historical facts very interesting and I obviously didn't know most of those bits. Yes, it......more

Goodreads review by Tree

I liked the discussion of the underlying reasons for addiction in our society and that the best solution is prevention. We need to prevent ACEs - Adverse Childhood Experiences - such as abuse, neglect, poverty. We currently use consequences and control to combat addiction, costly approaches that are......more

Goodreads review by QaaEmes

“What we cannot understand, what is alien to us, evokes disquiet and triggers critical judgement.” Take home messages dari buku: 1. Dianggarkan dalam 100billion diperuntukkan untuk aktiviti-aktiviti menumpaskan dadah seluruh dunia termasuklah cubaan nak hapuskan drug cartel. 2. Tetapi sedikit pun “w......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

I found this to be informative and really delves into addiction and the problems it causes. Central to its message is the opioid crisis. The author then extends beyond that to some viable solution. Importantly the author highlights the not only the great injustice of discrimination to those sufferin......more

Goodreads review by Megan

This book covers a lot of ground. Each chapter could be its own book, but I liked the broadness of it. Dr. Sederer discusses addiction in the context of American society at large, the context of the medical community, and the context of the individual, their family, and their treatment. There are en......more