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- catalog abstract ""With her Master of Social Work diploma still fresh in her hands, Rachel Greene Baldino embarked on a year-long journey as a new professional in a methadone clinic. She was ecstatic that she would be starting her career in a full-fledged counselor's position. But was she prepared for what lay ahead? Her personal account of the year that followed will give you an eye-opening glimpse into a place called "methadonia." Welcome to Methadonia: a Social Worker's Candid Account of Life in a Methadone Clinic captures the sights, sounds, smells, and emotions found in such a place. The author honestly and openly describes her feelings about the work and the people, and describes in graphic terms what she observed during her year there. Besides chronicling her year as a counselor in a methadone setting, Baldino makes recommendations for changes to the treatment system."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12302629.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""With her Master of Social Work diploma still fresh in her hands, Rachel Greene Baldino embarked on a year-long journey as a new professional in a methadone clinic. She was ecstatic that she would be starting her career in a full-fledged counselor's position. But was she prepared for what lay ahead? Her personal account of the year that followed will give you an eye-opening glimpse into a place called "methadonia." Welcome to Methadonia: a Social Worker's Candid Account of Life in a Methadone Clinic captures the sights, sounds, smells, and emotions found in such a place. The author honestly and openly describes her feelings about the work and the people, and describes in graphic terms what she observed during her year there. Besides chronicling her year as a counselor in a methadone setting, Baldino makes recommendations for changes to the treatment system."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Welcome to "methadonia" -- Why I took the job -- Heroin addiction -- Getting in: the intake interview -- Who ends up in a methadone clinic? -- Starting treatment -- The benefits of methadone treatment -- The self-medicating theory -- Triggers -- The needle -- Prostitution -- Pimps and dealers -- Methadone and pregnancy -- The children of methadone clients -- The harm reduction treatment model -- A clear and present danger -- Methadone counselor as "pseudo-cop" -- Transference -- Countertransference -- Working with groups -- The humiliation of urinalysis -- "Getting over on the man" -- Epiphany -- Mentoring -- "Counselor pleasers" -- Axis II clients -- When a client dies -- The counseling staff -- A flood of tears -- The challenge of defining addiction -- Methadone treatment and the recovery movement -- Divisions and conflicts of class -- A power imbalance -- The last straw -- Tragedy at the clinic -- "Forgiveness artists" -- A new vision of treatment.".
- catalog extent "210 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Welcome to methadonia.".
- catalog identifier "1929109024".
- catalog isFormatOf "Welcome to methadonia.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Harrisburg, PA : White Hat Communications,".
- catalog relation "Welcome to methadonia.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.29/36/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Drug addicts Rehabilitation United States.".
- catalog subject "HV5822.H4 B35 2000".
- catalog subject "Heroin abuse Treatment United States.".
- catalog subject "Methadone maintenance United States.".
- catalog subject "Social work with drug addicts United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Welcome to "methadonia" -- Why I took the job -- Heroin addiction -- Getting in: the intake interview -- Who ends up in a methadone clinic? -- Starting treatment -- The benefits of methadone treatment -- The self-medicating theory -- Triggers -- The needle -- Prostitution -- Pimps and dealers -- Methadone and pregnancy -- The children of methadone clients -- The harm reduction treatment model -- A clear and present danger -- Methadone counselor as "pseudo-cop" -- Transference -- Countertransference -- Working with groups -- The humiliation of urinalysis -- "Getting over on the man" -- Epiphany -- Mentoring -- "Counselor pleasers" -- Axis II clients -- When a client dies -- The counseling staff -- A flood of tears -- The challenge of defining addiction -- Methadone treatment and the recovery movement -- Divisions and conflicts of class -- A power imbalance -- The last straw -- Tragedy at the clinic -- "Forgiveness artists" -- A new vision of treatment.".
- catalog title "Welcome to methadonia : a social worker's candid account of life in a methadone clinic / Rachel Greene Baldino.".
- catalog type "text".