Parenting Through Your Adult Child's Addiction

Making Sense of Treatment, Aftercare, and Recovery Recommendations

De: Ginny Mills

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

If only you could control the outcome…
No parent imagines their tiny infant growing up to have an addiction. Your once precious child now makes frightening choices and takes terrifying risks. You are worried your son or daughter’s use of drugs or alcohol has reached a sufficient level of concern that you are exploring or have already admitted your adult child to treatment.
You are hard-wired as a parent to love, provide, protect, nurture, and rescue your young, just like every other mammal. You’ve ranted and punished, cried and pleaded, and it may have felt like nothing seemed to matter. Yet here you are, trying to learn what you can do to support your loved one without revealing the resentments, doubts, fears, and expectations you harbor.
Must it get even worse before it gets better?

Helpful for those who love someone with addiction

This is a concise book with a lot of information for those dealing with someone within an addiction. I was looking for information on aftercare, and this book helped explain the different types of sober homes and the important ingredients necessary to facilitate recovery. It also explains the disease and different treatment stages, and how families can best help their loved ones struggling with addiction. The AI narration had several glitches, but you could still understand what it was saying.

All of the advise on how to handle such a difficult situation

Knowing there is hope for addicts and families was very encouraging. Also navigating different treatment options