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Adapting Hip Hop to Heal Addiction Patients

            The album “Good Kid M.A.A.D City” by Kendrick Lamar is helpful in a music therapy program directed young adults in a rehabilitation program for those recovering from drug addiction or alcoholism, because it contains themes that reference how people use these substances in their social life, and the detrimental effects it can have. Much of the album revolves around settings such as nightclubs, house parties, driving with friends, and other social gatherings, and this is a reflection of the...