The Addicts' Mom: A Survival Guide: A Financial Legal and Personal Guide for Parents of Teens and Adult Children with Drug and Alcohol

About this book

If your child has a drug or alcohol issue you may be struggling with questions: What do I do now? Can my marriage and my family survive this? How do we hold it together when everything is falling apart? How do we help our child without wiping ourselves out financially? Do we need to create an estate plan with our addicted child in mind? Our child is completing treatment and will be coming home. What do we do now? Our child is in legal trouble-again. Do we let our child face the consequences or do we step in to help? How do I protect myself while trying to save my child? Part memoir and part survival manual The Addicts Mom tackles these tough questions to help parents cope survive and make smart choices through a childs addiction and recovery. Attorney Cassandra Collins combines her legal expertise with her experiences on the roller-coaster heart-wrenching learn-as-you-go journey through her own two sons addictions. "We thought we were somehow immune from drug addiction. That happened to other families. We were just dealing with a rebellious teen. It would pass. We could handle it. Sometimes the greatest issues in life arent brought on by the wrong answers but in the questions we dont face or ask ourselves." Practical straightforward and honest The Addicts Mom takes on the tough issues of addiction-from treatment options codependency family dynamics and the recovery process. It also provides useful advice and a comprehensive list of resources to help families wade through the legal and financial issues that often come with addiction. Above all else The Addicts Mom is written by a mom-a mom who survived her journey through her sons addiction and came out on the other side. It is her hope that her experiences can help ease the pain of addiction for other families.