The Disappearing

<p><span style=color: rgba(1 0 2 1)>THE DISAPPEARING follows the author's family through even more trauma than she wrote about in her first book DESTINATION...SANITY. This story is based on true situations in Nancy's family. You will feel the love concern and fear that she experienced as more people in her family got sucked into the addiction quagmire. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(1 0 2 1)>As her book begins her older son Rick has beaten his addictions to opiates yet he continues to use alcohol nicotine and probably a little weed. He is already gone having died in his own swimming pool. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(1 0 2 1)>Her younger son Josh chose alcohol as his drug of choice beginning in high school. She watched helplessly as his health deteriorated in his late thirties. She explores the agony of watching her son suffer through his alcoholism and into medical conditions which he could not overcome.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(1 0 2 1)>A granddaughter Riley started to experiment with drugs as a teenager. She eventually smoked swallowed and shot up anything she could get. She wanted to feel what her mom felt as she died of an accidental drug overdose when Riley was ten. She wanted to be with her mom. Riley nearly achieved that goal several times as she experienced addiction homelessness and rape. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(1 0 2 1)>This is a good read not only for addicts their friends and families but also for professionals who work with addicts. </span></p><p><br></p>