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"Clean will change not only how you look at drug abuse but also what you think should be done about it. This book is essential reading on one of our most important social problems."
-- Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness
Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking.
These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. The existing treatment system, including Twelve Step programs and rehabs, has helped some, but it has failed to help many more, and David Sheff explains why.
He spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors, and addicts and their families to learn how addiction works and what can effectively treat it. Clean offers clear, cogent counsel for parents and others who want to prevent drug problems and for addicts and their loved ones no matter what stage of the illness they're in. But it is also a book for all of us -- a powerful rethinking of the greatest public health challenge of our time.
"David Sheff's Clean is an important expose of a failed system; by replacing it, we will save countless lives, help people get clean and stay clean."
-- Richard Branson, Chairman, The Virgin Group
David Sheff is the author of the much-praised and hugely bestselling Beautiful Boy, based on his article, "My Addicted Son," which appeared in the New York Times Magazine. The article won a special award from the American Psychological Association for "outstanding contribution to the understanding of addiction." Sheff's research and writing about this subject is ongoing; he contributed to HBO's Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop and is writing a new book about mental health and addiction care in America. In 2009, Sheff was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the World's Most Influential People.
Along with The New York Times Magazine, Sheff has also written for The New York Times, Wired, Playboy, Fortune, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Esquire and Observer Magazine in England, Foreign Literature in Russia, and Playboy (Shueisha) in Japan. He has conducted seminal interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, nuclear physicist Ted Taylor, Congressman Barney Frank, Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks, Betty Friedan, Keith Haring, Jack Nicholson, Carl Sagan, Salman Rushdie, OJ Simpson, Fareed Zakaria, and others. He also wrote an award-winning documentary about John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, and a radio special about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both for National Public Radio. He wrote and edited Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue, which won a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Recording of 1984.
Sheff is the author of Game Over, published in a dozen languages, called "the bible of the videogame industry" by The Wall Street Journal, and "beguiling" and "irresistible. . . almost as hypnotic as a successful video game" by the New York Times. Gore Vidal said that in China Dawn, Sheff's book about the Internet revolution in China, "China, at the turn of the century, comes alive." All We Are Saying, based on Sheff's interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980, was a Literary Guild Selection book. Charles Champlin, Arts Editor of the Los Angeles Times, wrote: "David Sheff's sympathetic questions evoked so much of the Beatle past and of Lennon's intellectual past and present and future plans that the interview would hardly have been less engrossing and important even it if were not illuminated by tragedy."
Sheff graduated from the UC Berkeley. He lives with his family in Point Reyes Station, California.
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