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Meredith Maran’s Dirty: A Search For Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic is a moving study of America’s failure to address teen drug use. The book, which grew out of the author’s struggles with her own son’s addiction, throughout harmonizes a general analysis of America’s War on Drugs and drug treatment programs with a close study of three particular teens. Zalika, Mike, and Tristan offer no happy endings. For Tristan, a boy from a well-to-do family, even the loving treatment of Phoenix Academy cannot lead to a life free from chemical dependency. The prison-like therapeutic community of Center Point, meanwhile, seems only to drive Mike and his fellow addicts further into deception and isolation. A prostitute and sometimes addict, sixteen-year-old Zalika is eventually abandoned by her family and the drug court system as she watches her closest friends die around her. Though the book offers horrifying statistics regarding the rise of teen drug use, Dirty’s stories of Zalika, Tristan, and Mike are the most effective exposition of America’s failure to serve its most needy citizens. With Tristan, Maran takes the controversial stand that some limited drug use may actually be helpful in the process of self-discovery. Through Mike, readers see the failure of the adult AA model for teens who are not ready to embrace change. With Zalika Maran observes that a diagnosis of drug addiction is often only a "partial diagnosis"--a means to get a troubled teen into treatment that inevitably ignores a host of family, socio-economic, and educational problems. Threaded throughout remains Maran’s personal longing to understand why and how her own son could have fallen prey to drugs…and how he was lucky enough to return sober. --Patrick O’Kelley
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Maran (Class Dismissed) was herself the mother of a teenage drug abuser; she learned the hard way that there are no easy answers to the questions "Why do kids use drugs?" and "How can we help them?" "Nearly two-thirds of the teenagers in America today do drugs before they finish high school-one-third of them by the time they're in eighth grade," and none of the current programs, from DARE to detention camps to jails, have worked. Maran studies three leading treatment approaches by following three particular teenagers in care. The Center Point adolescent program separates kids from their families and friends to break bad habits and focus on behavior modification. The Phoenix Academy program keeps kids connected with their community and uses small classes, individual mentoring and AA/12-step participation to target addiction. Drug Court combines monitoring by court professionals with an after-school program of group therapy sessions, sports and drug testing. Unfortunately, the bottom line with youth programs-and these are better than most-is that they're hard and kids don't want to do them, so they run away, and there's no enforcement of participation. Indeed, none of Maran's subjects stayed with their programs-they all lapsed. Still, Maran learned enough to make some recommendations for improving teen care, outlined at the book's end. This is an insightful, compassionate look at the mistakes we are making with our teenagers.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This is a book about why teenagers use drugs, what we're doing about it, why nothing seems to be working, and what we might do to solve-or at least look honestly at-the problem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Center Point, Phoenix Academy, San Francisco, African American, San Rafael, Marin County, Vista Village, Kevin Charles, Multifamily Group, Santa Rosa, Contra Costa County, Serenity Prayer, United States, Planned Parenthood, Tom Fleming, Leo Kidd, Marin Pacific High, Case Review, Chris Adams, Earth Day, John Martin, Level Two, Mike Butler, Morning Group, National Institute New!
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This is a book about why teenagers use drugs, what we're doing about it, why nothing seems to be working, and what we might do to solve-or at least look honestly at-the problem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
short white boy, juvenile drug courts, teenage drug use, drug ahuse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Center Point, Phoenix Academy, San Francisco, African American, San Rafael, Marin County, Vista Village, Kevin Charles, Multifamily Group, Santa Rosa, Contra Costa County, Serenity Prayer, United States, Planned Parenthood, Tom Fleming, Leo Kidd, Marin Pacific High, Case Review, Chris Adams, Earth Day, John Martin, Level Two, Mike Butler, Morning Group, National Institute New!
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