When addiction spins its web around the person you love, you too, are trapped. Five personal accounts of perseverance, survival, and recovery,
Addiction is swallowing some of our best and brightest. No longer a few individual voices; this has become a communal cry of pain. These voices tell the stories of those who bear witness to addiction’s gritty costs giving a glimpse of the battles they fight daily. Five women who have a relative grappling with addiction share the pain of being on the edge of the whirlpool unable to pull out the person they love.
Tikva Ben Shalom
I lie in my daughter’s bed holding her as she trembles with withdrawal symptoms from yet another drug relapse. Tomorrow she flies to a new facility. Maybe it will be different this time. I’m on a tilting Ferris wheel of raised hopes fearful of having them dashed yet again.
Where are you going my little one little one?
Where are you going my baby my own?
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