Today\, more people have access to treatme nt than ever before. So why isn&rsquo\;t it working? The answer is that in America&mdash\;where anyone can get addicted&mdash\;only certain people g et a real chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths\, o ur default response is still to punish\, while rehabs across the United St ates fail to incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit pati ents. \;
\nIn this book\, you&rsquo\;ll find the stories of four people who represent the failures of the rehab-industrial complex\, and t he ways our treatment system often prevents recovery. April is a black mom in Philadelphia\, who witnessed firsthand how the government&rsquo\;s pun itive response to the crack epidemic impeded her mother&rsquo\;s recovery& mdash\;and then her own. Chris\, a young middle-class white man from Louis iana\, received more opportunities in his addiction than April\, including the chance to go to treatment instead of prison. Yet the only program the judge permitted was one that forced him to perform unpaid back-breaking l abor at for-profit companies. Wendy is a mother from a wealthy suburb of L os Angeles\, whose son died in a sober living home. She began investigatin g for-profit treatment programs&mdash\;yet law enforcement and regulators routinely ignored her warnings\, allowing rehab patients to die\, again an d again. Larry is a surgeon who himself struggled with addiction\, and wou ld eventually become one of the first Suboxone prescribers in the nation\, drawing the scrutiny of the Drug Enforcement Administration. \;
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\nAbout the Author: \;
\nShoshana Walter is a reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. Her reporting has been honor ed as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Selden Ring\, and she has won the Knight Award for Public Service\, the Edward R. Murrow Award\, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She started her work on the treat ment system at The Center for Investigative Reporting\, where her work app eared in The New York Times Magazine\, in newspapers\, and on NPR stations across the country. She is based in Oakland\, California.
\nAbout t he Guest Host: \;
\nBarbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American novelist\, essayist\, and poet. Her widely known works i nclude \;The Poisonwood Bible\, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo\, and Animal\, Vegetable\, Miracle\, a nonfiction account of her fa mily's attempts to eat locally. In 2023\, she was awarded the Pulitzer Pri ze for Fiction for the novel \;Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuse s on topics such as social justice\, biodiversity\, and the interaction be tween humans and their communities and environments.
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