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Treatable

Rethinking Addiction and How to Get Care Right

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Treatable

Von: Dr Sarah Wakeman
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From one of the world’s leading experts on addiction, a paradigm shift that shows us why we’ve got addiction wrong – and how to get it right

Addiction has long been considered an illness without a cure. Worse, some have regarded addiction not as a disease at all, but as a moral failing. While progress has been made in our understanding of addiction - its genetic inheritance, its neurobiology, its link to trauma - our perspective on interventions, treatment, and outcomes has barely moved on.

Now, in Treatable, leading addiction expert Dr Sarah Wakeman challenges us to consider: what if we’ve had it all wrong? What if people with substance use disorder are not weak or hopeless or doomed? What if notions like allowing them to hit “rock bottom” or issuing hard ultimatums or sending them to “rehab” were, in fact, making them sicker instead of helping them get well? And what if much of the addiction treatment system - the very body empowered to help people with addiction - was frequently so rife with bias, fraud, and non evidence-based models of care that, actually, very few people seeking care receive the help they need?

In Treatable, Dr Wakeman helps us see that the stigma associated with addiction has kept us from fully adopting the many evidence-based approaches that have been proven to work. News headlines keep us from seeing the full picture: recovery is not only possible, it is the most likely result. We hear about the overdose deaths, but not about the millions who have recovered from an alcohol or drug problem.

For the first time, Dr Wakeman sets the record straight on a disease that is as prevalent in our society as diabetes, but which receives much less attention, compassion, and care. Through the stories of her own patients, she shows that addiction is neither hopeless nor untreatable. With medication and supportive, holistic care, it can be managed just as well as, or even better than, many other medical conditions.

Treatable is a paradigm shift in the way we conceptualize addiction, poised to revolutionize not only how we approach treatment, but how we understand ourselves, and one another.


© Sarah Wakeman 2027 (P) Penguin Audio 2027

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Treatable looks at addiction in ways masterfully scientific and profoundly humane, not as a choice to be stigmatized but, in the author's felicitous phrase, as a ‘good-prognosis disease.’ Written by an astute physician with a gift for communication, this book combines instructive anecdotes, fascinating neurobiology, clinical experience, trauma awareness, and social research--all graced with heart-felt insight.
Combining her deep medical expertise with compelling clinical stories of her patients, Dr. Sarah Wakeman shows readers how human connection and the right treatment can help overcome addiction. Treatable is a hopeful, compassionate book.
Treatable is the clearest and most accurate book I've read about addiction. To understand and heal the millions that are suffering, we must evolve and update our paradigm with skill, scientific precision, and empathy. This is exactly what Dr. Wakeman accomplishes.
The greatest obstacle we face in treating addiction is the myth that it is untreatable. In her beautifully written and deeply compassionate book, Dr. Sarah Wakeman dismantles that myth, showing readers that addiction isn’t a moral failing deserving of punitive interventions but, rather, a medical condition that can be healed through evidenced-based therapies and kindness. Treatable is a gift—and a revelation.
A landmark and deeply powerful book, Treatable shows that substance use disorder can be understood, treated, and overcome. Dr. Sarah Wakeman brings clarity, compassion, and scientific rigor to a medical condition too often obscured by shame and bias.
Through this rigorously researched manifesto, Sarah challenges the myths that have undermined effective addiction treatment for decades and provides a practical roadmap for meaningful change. Unflinchingly honest and free from sugar-coating, it remains deeply empathetic, compassionate and, above all, hopeful.
Wise, compassionate, generous and radical - this book has the power to bring about great change, and it deserves to find the widest readership
TREATABLE combines scientific evidence and clinical wisdom to offer a clear and compassionate understanding of addiction and its treatment. Wakeman’s informed, humane, and genuinely useful book shows readers how to interpret the evidence, recognize when help is needed, and find effective care
TREATABLE is a compassionate, compelling, must-read for anyone who lives with addiction, cares about someone with addiction, or makes policy decisions related to addiction and its treatment. Dr. Wakeman cuts through the nonsense and misinformation about what helps and what doesn't, providing practical information about what good care looks like and how to get it.
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