Sam Perez’s ebook Deviate from Denial personifies the struggles of individuals coping with habit in the USA. Via tales of her dad and mom’ restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky, with the mission of hiring people in restoration, Perez captures the curler coaster of restoration.
The ebook begins by recounting the historical past of the opioid epidemic, setting the stage for the non-public tales intertwined within the ebook. Perez’s dad and mom’ expertise within the restaurant trade helped them determine the necessity for a change. They noticed the cycle of habit affecting their means to take care of wholesome, secure staff. This, partly, led them to open a restaurant with restoration in thoughts, DV8 Kitchen. There are highly effective particular person tales all through exhibiting the true footage of people going through habit. Perez ends with assets for therapy, hurt discount, and a information for hiring people in restoration.
I’d advocate this ebook for any scholar and educator to make use of in social work schooling. It presents a singular perspective on habit and restoration that’s much like these I’ve heard from shoppers within the subject. Substance use doesn’t happen in a vacuum; there are numerous moments in an individual’s life that make them substance use. Perez’s story following Tara’s opioid habit after a medical process offers a glimpse into one of the vital widespread actual world social work situations.
This ebook is a good useful resource, because it chronicles a well-researched historical past of the opioid epidemic along with offering assets in Half Three about paths to restoration and hurt discount methods. Habit intersects with many social work issues. All future social staff want to grasp habit, paths to restoration, and actual world lived experiences. This ebook presents these items in a considerate and effectively laid out method by Perez’s storytelling and analysis.
Reviewed by Sarah E. Bryant, MSW, Household Companies Workplace Supervisor, Cupboard for Well being and Household Companies, Commonwealth of Kentucky.
