Slaying The Dragon (Second Edition)

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Slaying the Dragon, The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America (Second Edition) by William White.

The product of more than 35 years of research, the Second Edition of Slaying the Dragon is the remarkable story of Americas personal and institutional responses to alcoholism and other addictions. It is the story of mutual aid societies spanning Native American recovery circles, the Washingtonians, the Ribbon Reform Clubs, Twelve Step Fellowships and more recent secular and religious mutual aid alternatives. It is a story of addiction treatment institutions from the inebriate asylums through rise of modern addiction treatment. It is also the story of the rise of a new addiction recovery advocacy movement that promises to transform the future of addiction treatment and recovery in the United States and beyond.

Author William White provides a sweeping and engaging history of one of Americas most enduring problems and the profession and social institutions that have sought solutions to it.

Section Titles include:

  • The Rise of Addiction and Personal Recovery Movements in the Nineteenth Century
  • The Birth of Addiction Treatment in America
  • Evolving Approaches to Alcoholism Treatment: 1860-1940
  • Treating Addictions to Narcotics and Other Drugs
  • A.A. and the Modern Alcoholism Movement
  • Mid-Century Addiction Treatment
  • The Evolution of Modern Addiction Treatment
  • The Recovery Revolution

11″x9″, 531 pages. 3 lbs.

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