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Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic
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by Meredith Maran

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Why do teenagers use drugs, what happens to them when they do, and what can we do about it? Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to explore the causes and consequences of our nation's drug crisis.

In these pages we get to know the kids, the parents, the therapists, and the drug treatment programs at their best and worst. We're face-to-face with seventeen-year-old Mike, whose life revolves around selling, smoking, and snorting speed; fifteen-year-old Tristan -- the boy next door -- who can't get enough pot, pills, or vodka; and sixteen-year-old Zalika, a runaway, crack dealer, and prostitute since the age of twelve. In their relapses and rebounds we witness the anguish and resilience of teenagers in trouble -- a fact of life for far too many American families today.

Combining powerful on-the-street reporting, groundbreaking research, and Maran's own mothering story, Dirty is essential reading for every parent and professional who works with or cares about children or teenagers.

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This is a book about why teenagers use drugs, what we're doing about it, why nothing seems to be working, and what we might do to solve-or at least look honestly at-the problem.

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  • Title Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic
  • Author Meredith Maran
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperOne, New York, NY
  • Publication date September 23, 2003
  • ISBN 9780060086220 / 006008622X
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.06 x 1.05 in (23.93 x 15.39 x 2.67 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Drug abuse - United States - Prevention, Teenagers - Drug use - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004272581
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.29
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