Jim Gilbert got his PhD in social work in 1995. Few who knew him as a high school dropout struggling with addiction, alcoholism and incarceration would have predicted this outcome. In Dopefiend's Redemption, Jim writes about his good fortune-with the support of friends, family and the social safety net, he was able to change his life. As a social worker in the South Bronx, he met Kalief, an African-American youth of limitless potential but without...