Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety Theresa Noye were able to make peace

were able to make peace with this tribe

fully human characters we meet in these twelve stories faces a moment of life-altering transformation

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The first story in the Shiloh Saga

Murdering prostitutes and savaging their remains

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety Theresa Noye were able to make peaceScripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of healthy talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to