false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174611869m/423581.jpg 423581 3 Meredith Maran's <I> Dirty: A Search For Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic</I> is a moving study of America's failure to address teen drug use. The book, which grew out of the author's struggles with her own son's addiction, throughout harmonizes a general analysis of America's War on Drugs and drug treatment programs with a close study of three particular teens. Zalika, Mike, and Tristan offer no happy endings. For Tristan, a boy from a well-to-do family, even the loving treatment of Phoenix Academy cannot lead to a life free from chemical dependency. The prison-like therapeutic community of Center Point, meanwhile, seems only to drive Mike and his fellow addicts further into deception and isolation. A prostitute and sometimes addict, sixteen-year-old Zalika is eventually abandoned by her family and the drug court system as she watches her closest friends die around her. </p> Though the book offers horrifying statistics regarding the rise of teen drug use, <I>Dirty</I>'s stories of Zalika, Tristan, and Mike are the most effective exposition of America's failure to serve its most needy citizens. With Tristan, Maran takes the controversial stand that some limited drug use may actually be helpful in the process of self-discovery. Through Mike, readers see the failure of the adult AA model for teens who are not ready to embrace change. With Zalika Maran observes that a diagnosis of drug addiction is often only a "partial diagnosis"--a means to get a troubled teen into treatment that inevitably ignores a host of family, socio-economic, and educational problems. 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