Addiction Proof Your Child
A Realistic Approach to Preventing Drug, Alcohol, and Other Dependencies
1st Edition
Published on 21. January 2009
272 pages
978-0-307-49385-9 (ISBN)
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Offers an effective if unorthodox approach designed to help parents take aim at the problem of addiction by explaining how to impart the fundamental skills and values that will protect youngsters and keep experimentation from turning into a more dangerous dependency.
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Stanton Peele
Addiction Proof Your Child
A Realistic Approach to Preventing Drug, Alcohol, and Other Dependencies
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08/2007
Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
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Stanton Peele, PhD, JD, is the author of the groundbreaking books Love and Addiction, Diseasing of America, and The Truth About Addiction and Recovery. An adjunct professor at the New York University School of Social Work and a senior fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, he has won the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the lifetime scholarship award from the Drug Policy Alliance. Visit his website at www.peele.net.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part one - Addiction, Drugs, And Alcohol
- Chapter One - The Problem Is Addiction, Not Drugs
- Chapter Two - Youthful Drug and Alcohol Use: Why It Becomes Addictive or Not
- Chapter Three - Why Our Drug Education Doesn'T Work
- Part Two - Raising A Non-Addicted Child
- Chapter Four - You Can Raise a Non-Addicted Child
- Chapter Five - Discipline and Values
- Chapter Six - Independence and Control
- Chapter Seven - The Moderating Household
- Part Three - Avoiding Harm Prevention, Treatment, and Policy
- Chapter Eight - Preventing Adolescent and Family Problems from Causing Addiction
- Chapter Nine - Keeping Your Child Safe
- Chapter Ten - Making Treatment Work: Deciding On, Monitoring, and Participating in Treatment
- Chapter Eleven - Policies for a Non-Addicted America
- Appendix A - Education and Treatment Resources: For Adolescents
- Appendix B - Government Watchdog Agency Report: Finding Government Media Program: Ineffective Understates the Case
- Appendix C - Harm Reduction for Drug Addicts
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Other Books By This Author
- Copyright
