Author: Anne M. Fletcher File Type: mobi An eye-opening tour of the addiction treatment industry explores the gap between what should happen and what does What happens inside drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and how rehab works are a mystery to those outside the industry and sometimes even to those inside it.Anne M. Fletcher is a trusted New York Times bestselling health and medical writer who visited 15 addiction treatment centersfrom outpatient programs for the indigent to famous celebrity rehabs from the sites of renowned Twelve-Step centers to several unconventional programsto find out what really happens. What she reveals ranges from inspirational to irresponsible, and, in some cases, potentially dangerous.Real Stories As always with her books, Fletcher gets the inside story by turning to real people who have been there, interviewing more than 100 individuals whose compelling stories illustrate serious issues facing people in rehab and endemic in the rehab industry today.Connected Writer and Researcher who has earned the respect (and cooperation) of experts throughout the fields shes taken on. Inside Rehab is no exceptionFletcher has interviewed more than 100 professionals working in the field, including a mix of rehab staffers and administrators as well as leading academics.Rehab is constantly covered in the media, as celebrities battle their drug and alcohol issues in the spotlight and reality TV puts recovery in prime time. Addiction is no longer only a personal struggleits a pop culture phenomenon.Myth Busting Fletcher exposes twelve supposed facts for the falsehoods they are, including rehab is necessary for most people to recover from addictions highly trained professionals provide most of the treatment in addiction programs and drugs should not be used to treat a drug addict. Fletchers most important finding is the alarming discrepancy between the treatments being employed at many rehab centers and the treatments recommended by leading experts and supported by scientific research.Guidance and Practical Solutions Inside Rehab also highlights what is working, spotlights state-of-the-art programs and practices, and offers advice and guidance for people seeking quality care and treatment for themselves or those they care about.Inside Rehab is the first book to give readers a thoughtful, sensitive, and bracingly honest insiders view of the drug and alcohol rehab industry in America. For people seeking quality care for themselves or a loved one, Inside Rehab is essential reading, offering a wealth of accurate information and wise guidance.**

Author: Joyce Maynard File Type: pdf On Mothers Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet. Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seaman - a successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs - in the back of the familys Ford Explorer. As the shackles were placed on her wrists, Nancy Seaman asserted that her husband had been beating her, and shed killed him in self-defense. At her trial, two radically different stories emerged. One of the couples sons, Greg, testified that his father had been abusing his mother for years. The other, Jeff, testified for the prosecution, charging his mother as a cold blooded killer. Joyce Maynards chilling work delves beyond the events of the crime itself, to explore the lives of an American family who seemed to have everything. Her exploration of the story led to a years research in suburban Detroit - but the story she found there will take the reader to the Depression-era farm country of Illinois, the working class neighborhoods of the auto industry in its heyday and even, surprisingly, to a Baptist church in burned-out downtown Detroit. Along the way we meet a Transylvanian forensic pathologist, a beautiful young prosecutor, an old-school police chief, a television news crew hungry for ratings, the softball scorekeeper mom accused of carrying on an affair with the murdered man, and her two shell shocked teenagers, still reeling from the death of their beloved coach, and a mother who has to tell her daughter why her favorite teacher wont be in school any more. As in Joyce Maynards previous books - including To Die For, based on a true crime, and her best selling memoir, At Home in the World - Joyce Maynards themes here involve family secrets, the deep fissures that lie below the surface of the glittering exteriors, and the deep, potentially fatal, fissures in the American Dream.**From BooklistMaynard serves up an examination of murder among the middle class. The setting is a gated community in a suburb outside Detroit. On Mothers Day in 2004, Nancy Seaman, the wife of a successful auto-industry engineer, herself an award-winning fourth-grade teacher, bought a hatchet at Home Depot. Three days later, her husbands mutilated body was found in the back of the familys Ford. There is no mystery as to who committed the crime. The mystery revolves around Nancys defense, which was based on battered-woman syndrome. Although the basic plot is gripping, Maynard spends far too much time tracing the backgrounds of both families. It is also problematic that, although Maynard was unable to attend the trial, her account centers on the proceedings and the testimony delivered there the result is not as compelling as it might have been. Still, Maynards portrayal of battered-woman syndrome is thought-provoking, reinforcing her theme that we never know what is behind the walls of even seemingly respectable homes. Expect some media attention, but, finally, this material might have been better suited as a magazine article. Connie Fletcher American Library Association. ltReviewp itemprop=description Novelist Maynard (The Cloud Chamber, 2005, etc.) examines a real-life murder for the nasty truths it reveals about a family of four torn apart by its pursuit of the American dream. In 2004, respected fourth-grade teacher Nancy Seaman picked up a hatchet and killed her hus-band, semi-retired automobile engineer and executive Bob. Was it self-defense or premeditation? Only Nancy knows shes serving a life sentence in a Michigan jail. Maynard, no stranger to stories of corruption born of ambition (To Die For, 1992), takes on a tale that offers few conclusions but a host of intriguing questions. The central one Where does happiness lie? Bob was a man who liked his Detroit Tigers season tickets and working on his vintage Mustangs Nancy was a polished, proud woman who carefully tended her ideal life in Farmington Hills, a tony suburb of Detroit. They and their two sons, one favoring their mother and the other their father, made up an unhappy clan caught between keeping up appearances and having loving relationships. Maynard devotes the first half of her book to tracking down the Seamans extended family, locating the roots of their marital problems and detailing the opinions and reactions of friends, coworkers and neighbors. Noting that her work falls under the ethical shadow cast by not just Truman Capotes In Cold Blood but the 2005 film Capote, she drops her detachment and becomes a presence in the story. She resists choosing sides about who was the real victim, Bob or Nancy. At times, she openly admits struggling with her feelings about her own familys dysfunction and divorce. In the end, Maynard finds enough common ground with the Seamans to portray a family broken, but one morefamiliar than strange. Painful, intimate and blood-spattered a gripping true-crime tale. (Kirkus, August 1, 2006) INTERNAL COMBUSTION is an engrossing tale of a troubled marriage, a dysfunctional family and a horrible act of violence. It is thoroughly readable and just scary enough for a good winters fireside read. - Bookreporter.com

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