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Jennifer Needle in Her Arm explores the emotional turmoil that parents go through when they have either lost a child to drugs or have to deal with a child currently addicted to drugs. Bonnie Kaye, who lost her daughter Jennifer in 2002 at the age of 22, suffered the guilt and shame almost all good parents go through in the aftermath of losing a child to drugs. In this book, Kaye talks about the journey she and her daughter went through together, and...
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Internationally renowned author, Marie Byrne guides us to safe passage through the drug age in her much awaited second book Angel In The Marble.
Marie's book includes guides and information - advising parents about children's use of drugs, about addiction and corruption, and most importantly about prevention and early interventions - in order to live healthier and happier lives.
This book shows the power of the ordinary person to face life's challenges...
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From Berkeley to the Bronx, teenage addiction has reached epidemic levels. Parents may suspect their teen's substance use, but often don't know if their teen is addicted or what to do about it. Dr. Laurence Westreich, an addiction expert and the father of two teenagers, helps parents navigate the fraught addiction landscape in A Parent's Guide to Teen Addiction. Divided into three sections, this book-based on the author's decades of experience evaluating...
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An innovative approach for parents of addicted children, this step-by-step program teaches parents how to reconnect with the entire family and be in charge again. The program is designed to help parents let go of the addicted family system and begin parenting with renewed strength and positive power.
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Degree from a prestigious Boston college? Check.
Fast-paced New York finance job? Check.
Loving, supportive husband? Check.
Three beautiful children? Check, check and check!
On paper, Lauren Schwarzfeld had it all-so why did she feel stuck? Like nothing was wrong, exactly, but nothing was truly right, either?
In Unboxed: Essays on Learning to Trust Myself to Stop Doing the Things I Hate, Schwarzfeld examines the many roads she's taken-including...
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On October 4, 2016, Jeff Johnston received the phone call that is every parent's worst nightmare. In a single moment, their lives had changed forever. "This One's For You" is the story of one family's struggle through addiction and their journey to find inspiration and meaning in the loss of a son & brother. Heroin may have taken Seth at the young age of 23, but it wasn't going to take the opportunity to continue his story.
Were there warning signs...
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Though only 26 per cent of the UK adult population now smokes (down from a peak of 80 per cent), smoking is actually on the increase among young people. A particular problem exists with teenage girls, though children as young as 8 to 12 are smoking. How to Stop Your Child Smoking, by the foremost expert in the subject, offers a clear, practical guide to parents on how to stop their children smoking, starting with the first rule of Don't Be Complacent....
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By the age of twenty, Joey has OD'd, attempted suicide, quit college, survived a near-fatal car accident, done time behind bars, and been kicked out of rehab. Now manipulative and hateful, the once sweet and charming Joey is long gone.
This is the poignant story of a defiant addict and the mother who won't give up on him. She finally realizes that it hurts more to hang on than to let go, and that letting go is not the same thing as giving up.
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Have you ever thought you may be drinking too much?
How many times have you sworn off alcohol only to return to it after the hangover wore off? Most of us! As moms, we have this unique ability to influence the life of another human being in ways that are both impossibly profound and jarringly serious. It's no wonder alcohol sneaks in to help us cope!
This book is filled with real-life stories from moms of all ages and stages who got sober and stayed...
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When Barbara Legere's son Keven begged her for permission to die, she refused.
Keven had spent half his life struggling with substance use disorder while his single mom battled courts, healthcare companies, rehab facilities and mental health professionals in an effort to protect him. As their relationship strained Keven's drug use progressed, Legere was forced to accept and love Keven as he was in their limited time together-two years before he took...
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"An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety--a blur of pain and chaos--to her now (in)frequent moments of peace. Punctuated by potent, laugh-out-loud sarcasm, Bottled offers practical suggestions on how to be a sober, present-in-the-moment mom, one day at a time, and...
12) Threads of Grace
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Raising her two sons as a single mother in Washington, D.C., author Eliza Richards struggles to find a way to support her family and give her boys the best life she can. But as they mature, both sons-quite separately from each other-become addicts. The eldest enters recovery in Minnesota, and eventually establishes his own highly successful addiction-recovery services. Her younger son-bright, brimming with life and remarkably charismatic-nonetheless...
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PARENTING is not an easy task. No matter the challenges that a parent or their child faces, it can be hard to know the 'right' thing to do. It is no wonder that oftentimes the parent of an adult child with mental illness and addiction feels alone and may not know which way to turn. Knowing how and where to find help for their son or daughter is just the beginning. After caring for their loved one, a parent must turn their attention to themselves as...
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Children don't come with manuals. Even if they did, there would not be a chapter titled, "What to do if your child becomes a heroin addict." How to Keep On Keepin' On A Mother's Guide to Finding Peace, When Addiction Hits Home is, written for all the mothers, who have been, there for those, who are going through it, and for those, who pray it never happens to them.
The pain and emotions mothers experience when a child is addicted to drugs are common...
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Parental drug use affects children at every stage of their lives, from before birth and well into their adult lives.
The aim of this report is to shed light on an invisible population: children and adolescents living in families where at least one parent uses drugs. This focus on children exposed to parental dependence on drugs and alcohol implies helping them and their families to overcome dependence and its consequences. Parental drug use impacts...
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Find The Love, Patience, and Insight to Take Your Life Back
What does it look and feel like to be a Mother of an Addict? How does a Mother's unconditional love help her child's addiction?
Sandy Sherman is a Mother of 2 addicts, a Daughter and a Son. For 5 years, she felt her life was spiraling down into a pit of despair, fear, helplessness, grief that was consuming her life. She felt alone and humiliated and the dreams she had for her kids were all...
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Based on the author's own experience as a parent with an addicted child, she provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery. An essential book to help parents navigate this confusing and uncharted landscape -- in the author's words, "Planet Paradox."
18) 50 Miles
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“Fifty Miles” is a memoir in linked essays that addresses addiction and alcoholism. The book traces the life and death of the author's son, Gray, a talented but troubled young man, to a drug overdose at thirty, as well as the author's own recovery from substance abuse.
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The story of an artist and musician, who is both colorblind and tone-deaf, and his journey through learning to cope with depression, anxiety, poor self-image, and thoughts of suicide. What starts as social drinking and the occasional experimentation with drugs, quickly devolves into a hopeless addiction to alcohol and a dependence on a self-medicated hallucinogen guided psychotherapy. Teetering on the brink of mental collapse, an unexpected turn of...
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Dana Bowman can't escape the lure of perfectionism, trying to be a flawless wife, mother, and person in recovery. When Dana experiences a short-lived relapse during the Christmas holiday, she has the startling realization that recovery is more than just giving up alcohol. In this funny and revealing follow-up to her best-selling book Bottled, Dana reflects on how we live in a society of excess, always pushing ourselves to do and be better. However,...
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