The New Addiction Treatment

Bruce Thyer, Distinguished Research Professor, Florida State University The New Addiction Treatment is a fascinating excursion into the field. Part personal ethnography, part scholarly overview, David Patterson Silver Wolf's book is an engaging melding of the author's personal lived experience with addiction, recovery, and subsequent career as an eminently successful behavioral scientist who is abreast of the latest developments in helping people recover from abusing addictive substances.... The underlying message is one of hope - genuinely effective therapies are available to help persons seeking sobriety. Moreover there are useful techniques that can be ethically used to motivate such persons to seek treatment in the first place. And to remain engaged in treatment during the long period of time needed to promote enduring recovery.

Mark S. Gold, M.D. The New Addiction Treatment is a reminder of how far we have come in understanding that all substance disorders are diseases of the brain, but neuroscientific insights only go so far and have meant very little to treatment success rates.... Substance use disorders are diseases of the brain, body, and soul. David A. Patterson Silver Wolf reminds us to keep it simple, find a treatment that is evidence-based and good at keeping patients in treatment until they are truly ready to continue on their own.... Professor Patterson looks carefully at where treatment procedures have come from and where they should be going to really help intervene, treat, and return to pre-drug use function.

Howard Weissman, Former Executive Director (retired 2018), National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse-St. Louis Area Dr. Patterson Silver Wolf has produced a provocative, well-written and highly accessible book that both calls into question the way we currently treat addiction in this country, and through colorful and compelling storytelling, provides us a better way forward.

David A. Patterson Silver Wolf, PhD, is Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis' Brown School of Social Work. Dr. Patterson Silver Wolf is a faculty scholar in the Washington University Institute for Public Health, Co-Director of the Collaboration on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America (CRISMA), Research Director in the Buder Center and serves as training faculty for two NIH-funded (T32) training programs at the Brown School, including the Transdisciplinary Training in Addictions Research program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Patterson Silver Wolf investigates how to best implement evidence-based interventions and technology tools into community-based services. He is the director of the Community Academic Partnership on Addiction (CAPA) and is the Chief Research Officer at CAPA Clinics in St. Louis, Missouri area. Before entering academics, he spent over fifteen years providing clinical services in the substance use disorder treatment field and has been in recovery since 1989.

Preface PART ONE: THE PROBLEM Introduction Chapter 1 How Big is Big? Chapter 2 Failure is an Option Chapter 3 How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Modern Treatment Chapter 4 The Holy Trinity Chapter 5 The Best Laid Plans PART TWO: THE SOLUTION Chapter 6 A Vision Chapter 7 The Fence or the Ambulance Chapter 8 Ties That Bind Chapter 9 First Do No Harm Chapter 10 If it Works for Them, Why Not Us? PART THREE: THE NEW ADDICTION TREATMENT Chapter 11 The 23rd Century Solution Conclusion Bibliography Glossary Appendices