Last Call: A Family's Battle with Alcoholism
- ISBN-10
- 1627466770
- ISBN-13
- 9781627466776
- Series
- Last Call
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 92
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-01
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing & Enterprises
- Authors
- S. Hale Humphrey-Jones Ph. D., S. Hale Humphrey-Jones, Ph.D.
Description
Secrecy, denial, and fear all contribute to the confusion surrounding addiction. What would you do if faced with the prospect that you or a loved one is suffering from an alcohol, gambling, or drug problem? Would fear and denial encourage the secrecy that enables the addiction to continue out of control? Addiction does not discriminate. We can all be touched by its devastation. Last Call: A Family's Battle with Alcoholism takes us into the desperate world of a woman battling with alcohol abuse. We watch her descent into hopelessness, and her ultimate fight for survival. We also agonize along with the pain and loss of her family as they attempt to make sense of a vicious addiction and cope with the ongoing damage it causes all of them. This story was inspired by the conflict of an actual family in order to assist those who are struggling with the ultimate reality of what to do if...
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