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Lowney's research encourages us all to dig deeper when it comes to interpreting the outcomes of statistical surveys. The qualitative methods explored by Lowney's research help us learn the meaning of the data from the offender's own point of view and make this volume a must read for students of qualitative methodology, as well as those studying the nature and causes of alcoholism and drug addition.--Robert W. Winslow, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Lowney's research encourages us all to dig deeper when it comes to interpreting the outcomes of statistical surveys. The qualitative methods explored by Lowney's research help us learn the meaning of the data from the offender's own!point of view and make this volume a must read for students of qualitative methodology, as well as those studying the nature and causes of alcoholism and drug addition. -- Robert W. Winslow, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus This remarkable book brings up to date Fr. Jeremiah Lowney's chronicle of the lives of a group of drug and alcohol abusers who he first encountered and befriended on the beaches of Southern California 38 years ago. For the social scientist Lowney!demonstrated the skillful melding of qualitative and quantitative methods in longitudinal research as well as the varied long-range impact of early drug use on later life experiences. For the general reader the book provides some readable and fascinating human life stories. All readers will agree that it was written by a remarkable, skillful, and dedicated man. -- Robert Straus

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Jeremiah Lowney is professor of sociology at Carroll College.

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