Galen Morgan Cooper, PhD and her family took a journey into the world of addiction, this was the book that Galen needed when the word heroin fell out of the tender mouth of her 17 year old son, shattering their world, destroying their family. Desperate to understand addiction, Dr. Cooper changed the focus of her work in psychology, dedicating herself to what she claims to be the underbelly of medicine and psychology - addiction. Alternating between a desperate fear for her son's life and the angry feelings she had for the child who was creating such utter chaos in their home, Dr. Cooper has chronicled her family's odyssey into an abyss, the turmoil her entire family called home. The angst is raw, the pain unbearable, and those who love an addict will return to this book again and again for sanity, stability and hope, to realize that they are not alone. This book offers the reader a window through which to see how a life derailed can ultimately lead to rediscovering humanity, hope and purpose.
