Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life: A Guidebook for Parents

A manual for parents seeking direction to help their daughters looks to education and help with addiction recovery. Step by step guidelines present parents and loved ones with tools for recognizing substance abuse in young women; communicating with them and their care providers; dealing with relapse, as well as long-term recovery; and managing parental shame, guilt, fear, anger, and loving detachment. A first-of-its kind book that looks at addiction through the lens of gender and family systems and provides a practical road map to recovery.