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In the 1960s, as illegal drug use grew from a fringe issue to a pervasive public concern, a new industry arose to treat the addiction epidemic. Over the next five decades, the industry's leaders promised to rehabilitate the casualties of the drug culture even as incarceration rates for drug-related offenses climbed. In this history of addiction treatment, Claire D. Clark traces the political shift from the radical communitarianism of the 1960s to the conservatism of the Reagan era, uncovering the forgotten origins of today's recovery movement.Based on extensive interviews with drug-rehabilitation professionals and archival research, The Recovery Revolution locates the history of treatment activists' influence on the development of American drug policy.
About the Author
Claire D. Clark teaches at the University of Kentucky, where she is an assistant professor of Behavioral Science, secondarily appointed in the Department of History, and associated with the Program for Bioethics. Her first book, The Recovery Revolution: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States, traces the influence of therapeutic community treatment activists since the 1960s. She was dual trained as an historian of medicine (PhD) and behavioral scientist (MPH) at Emory University. She lives with her family in Lexington, Kentucky.
More information: www.clairedclark.com
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