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Author Patterson Silver Wolf, David, 1963-2021, author

Title The new addiction treatment : from good intentions and bad intuitions to data, performance, and technology / David A. Patterson Silver Wolf
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 178 pages) : illustrations
Summary "There is no one who doubts that alcohol and other drugs create enormous-and enormously expensive-problems worldwide, and here in the United States. Much of the media coverage in local and national news has focused on the opioid epidemic, and rightly so. Opioids are highly addictive and often lethal. And at the peak of the epidemic, in 2017, overdose deaths from opioids alone, climbed to about 47,000 per year; an astounding number.5,6 More astounding: that same year (and the year before and the year after) nearly twice as many were killed by alcohol"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 28, 2022)
Subject Drug abuse -- Treatment -- United States
Drug addiction -- Treatment -- United States
Alcoholism -- Treatment -- United States
Alcoholism -- Treatment
Drug abuse -- Treatment
Drug addiction -- Treatment
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021006596
ISBN 9780197601402
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