Most experts say you can’t change the people you love who are addicts, but Brad Lamm’s controversial book says intervention is the key. Benoit Denizet-Lewis knows from experience.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a writer with The New York Times Magazine and the author of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life. His new book, American Voyeur: Dispatches from the Far Reaches of Modern Life, a collection of his writing, is out this week. Visit him at www.benoitdenizetlewis.com.