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Building on a successful career as a practitioner and a disciplined scholar, Professor Steverson offers an insightful, comprehensive, and compelling exploration of one of our most pervasive and persistent challenges -- addiction in all of its manifestations. This book successfully takes us well beyond a description of the enormous personal and societal costs of addiction by introducing helpful and hopeful possibilities for those of us who are earnestly seeking solutions. James A. Cottingham Professor Emeritus of Education & Psychology South Georgia State College

Building on a successful career as a practitioner and a disciplined scholar, Professor Steverson offers an insightful, comprehensive, and compelling exploration of one of our most pervasive and persistent challenges -- addiction in all of its manifestations. This book successfully takes us well beyond a description of the enormous personal and societal costs of addiction by introducing helpful and hopeful possibilities for those of us who are earnestly seeking solutions. James A. Cottingham Professor Emeritus of Education & Psychology South Georgia State College

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"Leonard A. Steverson is an adjunct professor of sociology at Flagler College and associate professor emeritus of sociology at South Georgia State College in Douglas, Georgia. Prior to entering academia, he was a licensed family therapist and addiction counselor. He holds a BS and an MS in Sociology as well as a PhD in Human Services. He is the author of ""Policing in America: A Reference Handbook"" (ABC-CLIO, 2008) and ""Madness Reimagined: Envisioning a Better System of Mental Health in America"" (Vernon Press, 2018), and co-author of ""Giants of Sociology"" (Pearson, 2006) and ""Debating Social Problems"" (Routledge, 2018). Professor Steverson has also worked as a director of a mental health and substance abuse program for children and adolescents, as a correctional counselor, and as a probation officer. These experiences, along with a recent investigation into the current mental health system as an addictions counselor, left him with some concerns about the system in which he was once employed. This was the catalyst for the precursor for this work-""Madness Reimagined."" ""Addiction Reimagined,"" an extension of that work, specifically focuses on addiction and is intended to engage people in making sure the field of addiction is effective and efficient."

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