Here’s a point to ponder: if addiction is a disease, what happens to our daughter’s and son’s whose “consequences” from addiction to alcohol and/or drugs have earned them a permanent record, as in felony charges, within the legal system? As...
Read moreNow Comes the Hard Part
So get a load of this: parents are not clamoring for material about how to survive/manage their lives with an addicted daughter or son, nor, particularly, are bookstores. At least not yet. I say “not yet” because I am turning into a veritable...
Read moreThe Latest Studies on Adolescent Drug Abuse
At any newcomers Al-Anon meeting, more than half of those attending are parents, and more than half of them are parents in crisis. That is, their children are in crisis as well. Yet I haven’t found my feet “connecting” with parents on the...
Read moreWhere Is the Divine Order?
Faith. A worthy topic for a recent 12-Step meeting I attended, and easily the reason I wrote this book — to restore my own faith, and perhaps influence others that, in fact, ALL IS IN DIVINE ORDER. Hmmm. Sometimes it hardly feels like divine...
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