Integrated Substance Abuse Programs

Integrated Substance Abuse Programs is a University of California, Los Angeles program acknowledged in the book for helping the author understand addiction. Its presence in the narrative links the family’s personal experience to professional expertise, while the book’s resource list gives readers a route to the program’s information online.

Institutional Identity and Expertise

The acknowledgments place Steve Shoptaw, Edythe London, Walter Ling, and especially Richard Rawson at Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. The author credits them with helping him understand addiction, establishing the program’s role in the book as a source of expert guidance. The account does not describe the program’s organizational structure, specific treatment protocols, or research projects, so its institutional contribution is presented through the people named and the knowledge they provided.

Connection to the Family

The book also thanks people who counseled, guided, and supported the family during its crises. It names David Frankel, Rick Raw-son, Paul Ehrlich, and Jace Horwitz of Herbert House Sober Living Environment, along with Randy and Ted. In a separate acknowledgment, the author identifies Richard Rawson as part of Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. Taken together, these passages situate addiction expertise within the practical support surrounding the family, while distinguishing the program affiliation from the wider group of counselors and helpers.

Place in the Book and Resources

Integrated Substance Abuse Programs appears in a work that sets an individual family’s experience beside the broader problem of addiction. The book describes methamphetamine as a growing challenge for treatment services and public systems, but it does not attribute those national trends or statistics to the program. Instead, the organization’s clearly stated contribution is to the author’s understanding, mediated by its named specialists.

The program is listed again in the closing resources as UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, alongside its website. This reference extends its role beyond acknowledgment: readers finishing the family narrative are directed toward an institutional resource connected to the book’s discussion of addiction.