Addiction is a disease; it is avoidable and treatable. It is not a moral failing. As with additional illnesses, the techniques probably to work are based on science – not really on faith, custom, contrition, or wishful thinking. Those fact is the building blocks of Clean, a new paradigm for stopping drug abuse and treating addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. Predicated on the latest research in mindset, neuroscience, and medication, Clean argues for a strategy that’s radically different from what currently goes by for prevention and treatment. Sheff provides talked to researchers, social workers, lovers, and their own families to find out what could work, and just as important, how dependency itself works. Clean offers very clear, cogent counsel for lovers and themselves no real matter what stage of the illness they’re in. But it is also a book for all those – a robust rethinking of 1 of the greatest public health difficulties of our time.