Pathways from the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery: A Travel Guide for Addiction Professionals [Paperback]

William L White (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 1996

Second Edition
This guide examines addiction and recovery as a cultural phenomenon and describes the cultural aspects, organization, key cultural roles, and milestones that most addicts share. It examines how to move clients out of their drug-using culture into a new world that promotes abstinence and healthy ways of living. A comprehensive look at the drug-using culture including concerns for intervention and treatment.

William L. White, M.A., Senior Research Consultant at the Lighthouse Training Institute in Bloomington, Illinois, has nearly three decades of experience in the substance abuse field.

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About the Author

William L. White, M.A., is a Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems/Lighthouse Institute. He has a Master's degree in Addiction Studies and more than 30 years of experience in the addictions field as a clinician, clinical director, administrator, researcher and well-traveled trainer and consultant. He has provided training and consultation services in more than 35 states to local, state, and federal agencies, as well as private industry. He has authored more than 70 articles and monographs, and seven books. His latest book, Slaying the Dragon - The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America, recently received the 1999 McGovern Family Foundation Award for the best book on addiction recovery. Bill was also featured in the Bill Moyers' PBS special "Close To Home: Addiction in America" and Showtime's documentary "Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century."

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Hazelden; 2 Sub edition (April 30, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568381239
• ISBN-13: 978-1568381237
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #708,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Anthropological Study of Addictions Made Easy, April 14, 2000

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Walter Scanlon "PhD, MBA" (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pathways from the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery: A Travel Guide for Addiction Professionals (Paperback)

This work is essential reading for both substance-abuse treatment professionals and all others who have an interest in addictions. The ability to understand the addict, recovering or not, is simplified in White's work. White divides the addict into three easy-to-understand groups (Acultural, Bicultural and culturally enmeshed), providing an important informational tool for assessment and treatment planning. Just as the treatment professional should understand the ethnic and religious culture of the patient, so too should he understand the culture of addiction and recovery within which the substance abuser "resides." Knowing that there is a "cultural" difference between inner-city heroin addicts and codeine dependent nurses, for example, it follows that treatment for each group should also be different. What makes White's work particularly important is the scientific foundation from which it was researched and written. It is an anthropological work in lay-person's language.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book explaining differences in drug mis-use folks., April 3, 2009

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Kevin J. Brennick (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pathways from the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery: A Travel Guide for Addiction Professionals (Paperback)

The culture of recovery explained here shows those involved in the culture of addiction that there is hope and a future. I found this work to be very up-lifting in its description of the life of recovered people.

5.0 out of 5 stars Pathways book, October 10, 2011

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