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Calling for families to act
If the government's anti-drug efforts have constituted a "War on Drugs," then the authors of a compelling new book would contend that authorities have conducted bombing raids when they should have been engaged in hand-to-hand combat on the ground.
Andrew T. Wainwright, executive director of the national intervention network Addiction Intervention Resources, Inc., says the government's bureaucratic and distant approach to eliminating drug problems from communities has ignored the area where genuine accomplishments can take place-in each household affected by addiction. He and AIR president and CEO Robert Poznanovich argue in It's Not Okay to Be a Cannibal (Hazelden Publishing) that families hold the true power to effect change and win back their addicted loved ones.
Wainwright, who was raised amid the power culture of Washington, D.C., knows a little...