Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts
Kids
(Riverhead Books, 2006)
BOOK FORUM
Thursday, April 20, 2006
12:00 PM (Luncheon to
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Featuring the author Maia Szalavitz, Senior Fellow, Stats.org; and with comments by Evan Wright
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone Author, Generation Kill: Devil
Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War.
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As the War on Drugs continues to fill America's prisons with nonviolent
offenders, many cities and states are looking at mandatory treatment as an
alternative to incarceration. Although treatment is generally preferable to
prison, not all methods of treating drug addiction are the same. Some methods,
particularly the "tough love" programs aimed at teens and adolescents, have
documented records of mental abuse, physical abuse, and even death.
In her new book, Help at Any Cost, Maia Szalavitz takes a critical
look at the history, controversy, and effectiveness of "tough love"
rehabilitation programs. Blending personal stories and anecdotes with the
detached narrative of a reporter, Szalavitz paints a troubling picture of the
increasingly popular "get tough" approach to drug abuse.
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