Saving Jake

When Addiction Hits Home

By: D'Anne Burwell

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

D'Anne Burwell's smart, athletic son - raised in a loving and prosperous home - begins abusing OxyContin as a teenager, and within a year drops out of college, walks out of rehab, and lands homeless on the streets of Boulder. Struggling with fear, guilt, and a desperate need to protect her son, D'Anne grapples with her husband's anger and her daughter's depression as the family disease of addiction impacts them all. She discovers the terrifying links between prescription-drug abuse and skyrocketing heroin use. And she comes to understand that to save her child she must step back and allow him to fight for his own soul.

Saving Jake gives voice to the devastation shared by the families of addicts, and provides vital hope. Above all, it is a powerful personal story of love and redemption.

©2015 D'Anne Burwell (P)2019 Tantor

Great Book!

Finally, someone who knows my struggle- my story! I wish I had purchased this book sooner.

Raw perspective of a parent

This story was a powerful, real story of how difficult it can be to not know what is happening with your child but still know they are slipping away. I appreciated her effort to change some of her behaviors and will be putting some of those into practice myself.

just what I needed!!!

love this book and took away alot of ideas. she describes my life:(
loved the narrator!!

Great book

This book has helped me understand my own son and his addiction. Thank you for this!!!

Always enjoy an addiction genre book

A great view from close family of how addiction ravages almost all it touches - and how the journey of recovery also can touch those near and dear to an addict