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Books to note

2013

Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment - and How to Get Help That Works by Anne M. Fletcher

2011

Addiction: A Mother’s Story - A True Story of Love and Addiction by June Ariano-Jakes

“Throughout Addiction: A Mother’s Story, you will read of the many things I tried to do to help my son battle the horrific disease of addiction. What helped, what didn’t. What I did, what I wished I had done differently. About effectively helping and about enabling. Tough love. Hitting bottom. Both Nathan’s and mine. You will undoubtedly recognize your own efforts as a parent as you travel this journey with me.”

2009

Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts by Beverly Conyers

Helping the Addict You Love: The New Effective Program for Getting the Addict Into Treatment 

by Laurence Westreich, MD

By a recommended BC writer in a related field:

After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity(2010) by Susan Inman. Telling a story familiar to FGTA members with his online review, Rafe Mair notes how the health-care system lets parents down when their child has a mental disorder.

2010

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction. (See the online list.)

Candace Plattor, who has lived many years with a painful and debilitating illness, has stabilized her health after many struggles, some with addictive drugs. Before and during the 1990s she began her transformation from someone with addictions to counsellor specializing in addiction issues. In 2001 she earned her Master's degree from the Adler School of Professional Psychology. She has since helped many family members of men and women with addictions.

Ms. Plattor's book is available on her own website as well as the Amazon site. It is also on order at Vancouver Public Library, which is building a request list. (The call number is 362.2 P71L).

2011

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate, MD. Unlike Dr. Mate’s first book, the well respected volume When the Body Says No, this is an audio book.

2013

CLEAN Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff 374 pp. An Eamon Dolan Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See the New York Times review.

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