Joani Gammill, a nationally acclaimed drug and alcohol intervention facilitator who has appeared on Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil, to provide free intervention services for families and individuals suffering from substance use disorder...
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If You Love Me – Maureen Cavanagh
Maureen Cavanagh’s gripping memoir, If You Love Me, is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles – and ultimately reckons with – substance use...
A Message From Justin – Jeffrey Veatch
Jeffrey Veatch, a news writer at ABC News Radio for 40-plus years, won a national Writers Guild award in 2007 for ABC’s World News This Week. In September 2008, Veatch’s life took a drastic turn when his 17-year-old son, Justin...
Nancy Vericker – Unchained
Nancy McCann Vericker is the co-author with her son, JP, of their book, Unchained: Our Family’s Addiction Mess Is Our Message. It’s the true story of JP’s descent into opioid and alcohol addiction, homelessness, violence...
S.O.B.E.R.* – Anita & Mike Devlin
S.O.B.E.R.* is uniquely written from two perspectives, simultaneously: Anita, grappling with the stigma of her son’s addiction, fearing for her son’s life and struggling to understand the disease of addiction; alongside Michael...
Prevent Opiate Abuse – Elaine Pozycki
Elaine Pozycki never thought she’d become an activist. Her son’s death due to overdose changed that. Heroin took the life of her athlete son, and she traces his addiction back to when he was prescribed opiate...
Zero Left: Jim & Jeanne Moser
Parents expect to have awkward conversations with their kids; the birds and the bees, the dangers of drinking and driving and the consequences of taking street drugs being a few. But, as we are unfortunately finding out as of...
Models Against Addictions
Founded by working models who have suffered through the trials and pain of addiction and mental health matters, Models Against Addictions aims to bring awareness to the problem affecting all walks of life. From MAA founder Asia...
365 Days – Rozelle White
“My name is Rozelle F. White, Sr. I am 59 years old, father of five, with seven grandchildren. I used alcohol since the age of nine and graduated to heroin at the age of 19, this was to be my lot in life until God tapped...
Will To Live – John Trautwein
A Family’s Original Vision of Hope – December, 2010 In a nutshell, @WillToLiveOrg wants the foundation to be for, through and by the kids. We are often hearing: “parents talk to kids, coaches talk to kids, teachers, counselors...