AIRED: May 06, 2013– 11 am PST
AUDIO REPLAY AVAILABLE 5-08-13
TITLE: “CLEAN: Overcoming addition and ending America’s greatest tragedy”
SPECIAL GUEST: David Sheff
Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science — not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking.
These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it.
The existing treatment system, including Twelve Step programs and rehabs, has helped some, but it has failed to help many more, and David Sheff explains why. He spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors, and addicts and their families to learn how addiction works and what can effectively treat it.
Clean offers clear, cogent counsel for parents and others who want to prevent drug problems and for addicts and their loved ones no matter what stage of the illness they’re in. But it is also a book for all of us — a powerful rethinking of the greatest public health challenge of our time.
ABOUT DAVID SHEFF
“David Sheff knows addiction as no parent would ever want. Through it all, he’s tapped into a unique ability to convey the pain, wisdom and love that he’s experienced through many turbulent years with his son Nic. As a journalist, father and clear-eyed chronicler of addiction, David is without peer.”
– Sanjay Gupta, MD, Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN
CLEAN is the follow-up to his New York Times #1 best seller, BEAUTIFUL BOY, A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction. Writing about CLEAN, author Benoit Denizet-Lewis says, “David Sheff has written the most important book about addiction in a decade.” Eric Schlosser wrote, “CLEAN will change not only how you look at drug abuse–but also what you think should be done about it.”
Along with The New York Times Magazine, Sheff has also written for Playboy, The New York Times, Wired, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Esquire and Observer Magazine in England.
Sheff is the author of GAME OVER, called “the bible of the videogame industry” by The Wall Street Journal, and “beguiling” and “irresistible.
Sheff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives with his family in Northern California.
