Silent Treatment Addiction in Am

	Silent Treatment: Addiction in America

Breaking The Silence
	From bottom to top: A family’s generational struggle to live with addictions
	Pain and secrecy of addiction shapes ‘wounded healers’
	Top-10 List of Addiction Myths — and Myth Busters
	Books, films and DVDs offer inspiration for getting – and staying – sober

Addiction: Where It Starts
	Addiction treatment catching up with ground-breaking brain and genetic research
	Challenge one: Deciding to fight addiction. Challenge two: Paying for it
	The first 90 days: ‘When I’m released, I’ll change people, places and things’
	How to choose a quality treatment program
	Treatment locator guide

Youth: The Danger Zone
	The danger zone: 1.6 million addicted kids shaping outside-the-box treatment strategies
	For Santa Cruz’s young drug offenders, the whole village becomes treatment team
	A cautionary tale from a child prodigy of substance abuse
	First, take a deep breath: Comprehensive tips to finding addiction treatment for your child
	Check yourself: A self-test on teen’s first drug of choice
	A resource list for adolescent and teen prevention and treatment

Disparity: The Silent Victims
	With nearly 50 percent rise in drug-related arrests, women are the silent casualties of war on drugs
	Addiction’s one-two punch: Abuse, social messaging make women harder to treat
	Drug courts, treatment programs chipping away at numbers of imprisoned black males
	From girl to woman: ‘I couldn’t count on myself. I couldn’t count on my emotions’
	Resource list for treatment, recovery and support
	Women-specific treatment resources

Recovery: The New Activism
	The new activism: Addiction recovery prepares to move ‘out of the basement’ into public health arena
	Life in recovery: ‘There’s something about being out there every day, getting stronger in front of the world’
	List of recovery groups, programs and services
	Realistic recovery: How to survive that first year
	Choices abound to help you stay on path to recovery

Opinion-Editorial
	What a story: Treating addiction effectively means saving lives and money

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