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Book Synopsis The Confessions of a Drug Addicted Daughter by : Fern Moore
Download or read book The Confessions of a Drug Addicted Daughter written by Fern Moore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of drug addition. If you are unaware of what can happen to a young person whose life was destroyed by becoming a drug addict, I hope you will read Susan’s life story. This book has great input from the addict, my daughter, on when she started, on how she started, and why she started using drugs. Her letters are insightful as are her confessions, never before told. If I can help even one child avoid the life my daughter has led, it will be worth the agony I have spent in reliving Susan’s life which has been destroyed by the use of drugs.
Book Synopsis My Beautiful Daughter by : Vanessa Wales
Download or read book My Beautiful Daughter written by Vanessa Wales and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Beautiful Daughter is an inspirational true story about a daughters fight against drug addiction through the eyes of her mother. Louise goes from a happy contented child, to a self destructive drug addict. The impact that it would have on her family especially her parents is key to it all. The story starts where the mother is looking back over the years to when it began, and how she coped with trying to help her daughter, but at the same time having to come to terms with the fact that she may lose her. It covers the constant battle over the lack of help and advice for parents from the professionals. Whilst dealing with her grief on a daily basis, she struggles to understand why this is happening. Then she has to come to terms with the revelation that a terrible event caused her beautiful daughter to take heroin in the first place, leaving the whole family distraught. Finally as her daughter battles to stay clean, a serious life threatening health problem is diagnosed which is one of the consequences of her years of drug abuse. Every time her mother thinks that its nearly over, another challenge emerges and another fight begins. This is a very emotionally charged account of pure desperation from her parents, determined to get back the daughter they feel is lost to them, never giving up hope and at times barely keeping sane, and while their daughter fights her addiction they have to face up to the trauma that led to her drug abuse.
Book Synopsis My Daughter's Addiction - a Thief in the Family by : Marie Minnich
Download or read book My Daughter's Addiction - a Thief in the Family written by Marie Minnich and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping true story of one mothers journey raising her heroin addicted daughter. The autobiographical story also chronicles the murder of the author's mother in 1968; the Youth Culture of the 60's, the author's experience as a battered wife and consequent escape, and the devastating effects of that marriage and personal history on her adult daughter, a heroin addict. On the night of August 18, 2009, her beloved 32-year old daughter died of a drug overdose. Despite all the sorrow, this story is neither gloomy nor depressing, but rather an unflinching and compelling account of one woman's life, and her daughter whom she did not abandon to the bitter end. The story is topical and relevant, and needs to be read by every family trying to cope with the problem of addiction. If you also feel at a loss when dealing with your addicted loved ones, then you must read this book for your own sanity.
Book Synopsis My Daughter's Addiction by : Marie Minnich
Download or read book My Daughter's Addiction written by Marie Minnich and published by Marie Minnich via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is the harrowing story of one mother's journey through the hell of her daughter's heroin addiction. It is also a topical memoir that traces the social history of drug use from the youth culture of the 1960's to present time, and also examines public policy on drug abuse and its impact on our criminal justice system. The author’s story begins as a young woman whose mother, an antiques dealer, was murdered in her upscale suburban antiques shop in 1968; 3 days after the Chicago Democratic Convention where cops and hippies clashed in a historic confrontation. Subsequently, the author emerged into the youth culture of the 60’s, where rampant drug experimentation was the norm. Out of this chaos, the author then examines her personal history from that personal and social historic moment, leading to her subsequent marriage to an alcoholic, and then to the three children who were the offspring of that marriage. From the time her oldest daughter was a teenager her daughter exhibited addictive personality traits, culminating in a serious heroin addiction and consequent enmeshment in the criminal justice system. On the night of August 18, 2009, at 32 years of age, her daughter lost the battle to her addiction and died of a drug overdose. The suffering this addiction inflicted on her daughter, the family, and society at large is examined in an unflinching portrayal of the nefarious forces at work. Addiction is indeed a thief that steals a promising future from anyone who suffers from these compulsive behaviors, and it steals in an indiscriminate manner from all echelons of society. This moving story makes a brave attempt to understand solutions and treatments for drug addiction. Although the subject matter is gritty, the story is neither gloomy nor depressing, and may offer hope to families of addicts worldwide
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Drug Addict by : Holly Dae
Download or read book Confessions of a Drug Addict written by Holly Dae and published by Confessions Universe. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gene Lawrence was fifteen and trying to fight a crack addiction, everyone told him that the longer he stayed clean, the easier it would be to say away from crack. They were liars because eight years later at twenty-three years old, Gene finds himself struggling with the frustrating symptoms of a crack craving. It wouldn't be so bad if he could hole up in his apartment and not see anyone, but with the holiday season coming up and his ex-girlfriend, Rebecca, back in town for her wedding, Gene has no choice but to consider what led to his drug addiction and the reasons he's had such a hard time staying off crack since then. Especially for Allison, who he finds himself more attracted to by the day and who is trying to seduce him every time they're alone in the same room. But he'd rather not get involved with Allison at all than fail her in the end. Like he failed Rebecca. Like he failed his mother. Like he failed himself. His relationships with people were always ruined when he let them get entangled with his crack addiction. Because although Gene chose not to go back to crack, it didn't mean he wasn't an addict anymore. Once an addict, always an addict. Part of the Confessions Universe, a series of interconnected stand-alone YA and NA novels featuring protagonists that struggle to overcome the burdens and drawbacks of a specific issue (drugs, eating disorders, trauma, etc.) and how that issue affects their personal, mental, psychological, and romantic lives. Real. Honest. Uncensored.
Book Synopsis Parents Of A Drug Addict Daughter by : Jacinto Karpinsky
Download or read book Parents Of A Drug Addict Daughter written by Jacinto Karpinsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've just discovered or have reason to believe your child is using nicotine, alcohol or drugs, the first thing to do is sit down and take a deep breath. We know this is scary, but you're in the right place. Take a beat and prepare for the important conversation ahead. The author began to share her story, phone calls and emails began to stream in from other parents asking questions of how to get help, what to do, and what not to do for their heroin addicted adult child. Even though their daughter survived her overdose, the author and her husband continues by leaving you with a parent's worst nightmare. The powerful and tragic ending leads to a family's faith being tested to its very core. The author, a seminary graduate, reveals lessons she has learned along this difficult trail of being a parent of an addict. But rather than turning from her faith or abandoning the God she'd depended upon, she eventually finds a deeper hope and a renewed faith to continue to persevere no matter her child's outcome.
Book Synopsis Addicted Like Me by : Karen Franklin
Download or read book Addicted Like Me written by Karen Franklin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the voices of a mother-daughter writing team, Addicted Like Me offers a detailed personal account of addiction and how it affects the entire family. Karen Franklin recounts her own past as a young addict, her struggle with the alcohol...
Book Synopsis Jennifer Needle in Her Arm by : Bonnie Kaye
Download or read book Jennifer Needle in Her Arm written by Bonnie Kaye and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 how in the end, nothing she did changed the outcome. She shares some articles she wrote in the years following her loss to help people understand what parents go through with a drug-addicted child. Kaye has also included a number of heart-wrenching writings that Jennifer gave to her to share with others in hopes that they would read about her pain and not have her daily struggles of survival. One passage includes these words of despair and hope: Dear Addiction, What have I ever done to you to deserve all this pain and agony? You have taken everything from me. My family's trust, my family's sleep, my sleep, my apartment, car, jewelry, etc. But worst of all you've taken my sanity, my life, and me. I think of you every day. I even dream about you at night. I'm sure your only thoughts about me are to totally destroy me. I love you yet hate you so much. No matter how hard I fight, you are stronger. I'm 19 but feel 69 because of you. You have robbed me of my childhood. Because of you I have killed, robbed, sold drugs, sold myself, and hurt everyone close to me. You're a liar!!!! You swore you would make things easier for me. You swore I wouldn't have to worry about anything. You promised fun and heaven. But all you have given me is hurt and agony and a living hell. This is my life and I'm taking it back. I'm going to win this battle. I PROMISE. The book is comforting to parents who continue to suffer from shame, guilt, and feelings of helplessness. They will realize they are not alone--and they are not responsible. About the Author Bonnie Kaye is an internationally recognized relationship counselor/author. She is also an educator working with adult high school dropouts to obtain their high school equivalency diploma. She is the director of the Northeast GED Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kaye also has a book co-op for independent authors at www.BooksofExcellence.com and an Internet radio show on Sunday evenings for those authors. In 2002, Kaye lost her daughter, Jennifer, at the age of 22 to a three-and-a-half-year heroin addiction. Afterwards, she started a local weekly support group for other parents who were suffering with this catastrophe to help them in the healing process. She stopped the group after nearly a year, unable to do her own healing. Instead, she has done personal one-on-one counseling with parents who requested her help over the past decade. Kaye's other books include: The Gay Husband Checklist for Women Who Wonder; Straight Wives: Shattered Lives (Volumes 1 and 2); ManReaders: A Woman's Guide to Dysfunctional Men; Bonnie Kaye's Straight Talk; How I Made My Husband Gay: Myths About Straight Wives; Doomed Grooms: Gay and Bisexual Husbands in Straight Marriages; Gay Husbands Say the Darndest Things and Over the Cliff: Gay Husbands in Straight Marriages.
Download or read book Loss Of Innocence written by Carren Clem and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clems were a family living the American dream until their fifteen-year-old daughter Carren became addicted to Meth. Within two months of first taking the highly addictive drug, Carren had moved out of the family home, spent her entire savings on Meth and resorted to stealing, dealing and prostitution to pay for her habit. Told from both Carren's perspective and from the perspective of her father Ron, Loss of Innocence shares the shocking story of how a middle-class girl growing up in a stable home could get so lost. A former LA police officer, Ron describes how he went back to being a cop to try to rescue his daughter and how he suffered a heart attack in the street when he witnessed Carren selling herself to a drug dealer; Carren shares the events leading up to her first taste of drugs, and her descent into addiction with moving candour and dignity. Carren is now clean and sober, and in this frank, compelling book she and her family prove that there can be life after drug addiction.
Book Synopsis The Heroin Addict's Daughter by : Allia Burch
Download or read book The Heroin Addict's Daughter written by Allia Burch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a middle class home, my father's heroin addiction was the thing no one mentioned. We lived in denial and secrecy. Years later I set out to understand my behavior as an adult child of an addict.If you're an adult child of a drug addicted parent, wondering if you can get clear of the pain of your addicted family? It will take time to move through the pain and shame, but it can be done. I'm a woman who grew up in an addicted family. I don't have all the answers, but understanding myself and my behavior helped me. Maybe it will help you as well.Allia Burch (pseudonym) is a writer who lives in the Northeastern U.S.
Download or read book Blindsided written by Daria Vinning and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's take a journey together as I explain how my daughter's drug addiction blindsided me! I will share what I went through in the process of trying to save her, deal with my Lupus, and raise her two children. I had to make sure everyone around me did not know how I was truly suffering on the inside; all while trying to keep a smile on my face. I pray this book encourages everyone going through a similar situation to seek God for strength and with His help, you will get through it.
Book Synopsis Magic Dreams. by : Sergey Baimukhametov
Download or read book Magic Dreams. written by Sergey Baimukhametov and published by M-Graphics Pub.. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world, adolescents are at one time or another confronted with the strong temptation to try narcotics. This terrifying book is a compendium of "arguments against " presented in a form anyone can understand. It is written on a level unknown to most Americans and especially children. The book presents real confessions of real drug addicts, aged 17 to 42, horrifying stories, accompanied by comments of the author, medical specialists, teachers and representatives of the police. This book is full of common sense. It is not the usual and useless book of anti-drug propaganda full of threats of "irreversible brain damage," which to adolescents is a pure abstraction. This work introduces them to the nightmarish experiences of drug addicts told in their own words. Its brutally honest narratives will dispel any aura of glamour that may have surrounded narcotics in the minds of some adolescents and scare them so badly that they will never give in to the impulse to try them-at least that's what many experts and media reviewers say. The main reason so many of our children do succumb to the initial temptation to use drugs is that they don't know the real truth, the real consequences of doing so. After reading this book they will know it. Here is what one Russian blogger with a specific name Angry Vampire writes about this book: - Such first person accounts always get you where you live. They ought to print "Magic dreams" at government expense and give it to middle school classes to read, so that when these kids hear the words "meth," "heroin," or " shoot up" it would trigger an involuntary gag reflex. That would throw cold water on them once and for all. And another blogger writes: - Not long ago I happened to get a hold of this book by Sergey Baimukhametov. I began reading it just before going to bed. And...I just couldn't do it. I rushed to my mom and woke her up with my wild screaming: "Mom! I'm scared!" All of you, my peers, read it! Let all of us be too scared even to think about drugs, to say nothing of touching them. It is no wonder that "Magic dreams" proved to be a bestseller in Russia, and, as of this writing, has been published in 18 editions.
Book Synopsis If You Love Me by : Maureen Cavanagh
Download or read book If You Love Me written by Maureen Cavanagh and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Cavanagh’s gripping memoir If You Love Me is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles—and ultimately reckons with—substance use disorder. Fast-paced and heartwarming, devastating and redemptive, Maureen’s incredible odyssey into the opioid crisis—first as a parent, then as an advocate—is ultimately a deeply moving mother-daughter story. When Maureen and her ex-husband Mike see their daughter Katie’s needle track marks for the first time, it is a complete shock. But, slowly, the drug use explains everything—Katie’s constant exhaustion, erratic moods, and all those spoons that have gone missing from the house. Once Mike and Maureen get Katie into detox, Maureen goes to sleep that night hoping that in 48 hours she’ll have her daughter back. It’s not that simple. Like the millions of parents and relatives all over the country—some of whom she has helped through her nonprofit organization—Maureen learns that recovery is neither straightforward nor brief. She fights to save Katie’s life, breaking down doors on the seedy side of town with Mike, kidnapping Katie outside a convenience store, and battling the taboo around substance use disorder in her picturesque New England town. Maureen is launched into the shadowy world of overcrowded, for-profit rehabilitation centers that often prey on worried parents. As Katie runs away from one program after another, never outrunning her pain, Maureen realizes that even while she becomes an expert on getting countless men and women into detox and treatment centers, she remains powerless to save her own daughter. Maureen's unforgettable story brings the opioid crisis out of the shadows and into the house next door.
Book Synopsis Surrender: A Love Letter to My Daughter by : Lou Alpert
Download or read book Surrender: A Love Letter to My Daughter written by Lou Alpert and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 1, 2017, Lou Alpert woke to a CNN story featuring images of her daughter Crystal shooting up heroin in an alley, visibly pregnant and being confronted by an Albuquerque policeman. Within twenty-four hours, the story had gone viral, picked up by media outlets worldwide. Subsequent coverage followed: television interviews, news articles, and an appearance at Trump’s State of the Union address by the policeman, his wife, and Crystal’s adopted daughter. Surrender: A Love Letter to My Daughter gives voice to the truth of one mother’s journey through her child’s heroin addiction. Delivered with honesty and insight, Lou shares her lived wisdom with a rare mixture of candor, humor, compassion, and love. This book is for anyone who has found themselves swept up in the opioid crisis, hiding in the shadows, and trying to cope with the chaos of loving an addict.
Book Synopsis Memories of an Addict's Child by : Marlisha Skaggs
Download or read book Memories of an Addict's Child written by Marlisha Skaggs and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have written this book for everyone who used drugs or is using drugs, and is in prison or treatment. I have written this book for your kids and family who had to go through pain and trials and were strong enough to make it through. I want to say to all the parents out there who are using, please read my book, see and feel my pain, my hurt, my loss, and understand that your children are hurting. Every time you want to get high think about what I went through; think about how you don't want your children hurt. Never say never-you never know what's happening to your kids when you are leading a life in drugs and crime. Let my book awake you out of your coma and break those generational curses that have been passed down to you, and save your kids from heartache and pain. Let life come back into your mind, body, and soul because you can't stay lost forever. Let this book rock the very foundation you stand on because it's all true. You have to love yourself so you can love your kids. Trust in God no matter what your beliefs are; trust in God, he will carry you, he will be your first husband, your father, and your mother, even your best friend. If you're using, please wake up; even if you don't have any kids you are worth it, you are loved, you are human. Learn to forgive, and forgive yourself. Speak life into yourself, not death; no matter how hard life is get up and keep on keeping on. And for all the kids who are going through this, stay strong and faithful in God the man above, and never, never do drugs no matter how sad or depressed you get. Remember if you never take your first hit you will never have to quit! Stay clean and drug-free for all your days on earth. Look at me, I amdrug-free despite what I've been through, so have faith and stay strong. Lots of love, Marlisha
Download or read book Dope Girl written by Kimberly D. Mathis and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody ever survives trauma without scars, but embrace them as the battle wounds that lead to your inner peace. Stop expecting yourself to have all the answers. Have faith that every experience you encounter is carefully crafted to make you one fierce soldier. Embracing life's challenges as the faith strengthening, confidence building, character revealing and patience enduring tests that they are. It's a fact, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, unequivocally. The more we learn to trust God and ourselves, the more we ultimately set our souls free.What is God trying to heal you from? I encourage you to find the strength to shed the shame of circumstances you can't or couldn't control. Let go of guilt, pain and the feeling of defeat. There is freedom and healing with your name on it. Forgive. And pray often, so tomorrow won't be like yesterday. God favors you and He favored me, and because he did, this girl turned out to be pretty dope. Now, it's your turn. Go be dope!
Download or read book One Last Ride written by Kim Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the parent of a drug addict can be incredibly hard. I know because I did it for 10 years. My book is the story of my daughter and me and how we both coped with her disease of addiction. I share some of the hell that she put her family through and what I would do differently. The book explains how her family dealt (or didn't) with her love of drugs. I attempt to explain the agony that I experienced in the hopes that I can deter others from a life like we had. My suggestions for helping addicts is included but I am not a professional drug counselor. I am a mother with a story to share. A story that I believe my daughter would want me to tell.
