Addiction Recovery and Resilience - Faith-Based Health Services in an African American Community

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

About the author

Townsand Price-Spratlen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Nurturing Sanctuary: Community Capacity Building in African American Churches and Reconstructing Rage: Transformative Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration.

Product details

• Authors: Townsand Price-spratlen, Price-Spratlen Townsand
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781438487380
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8738-0
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: SUNY series in African American Studies; Suny African American Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Addiction & therapy, Coping with illness & specific conditions, United States of America, USA, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Central / national / federal government policies, Urban communities, Black & Asian Studies, Central government policies, Relating to African American / Black American people, Coping with / advice about addiction