The Heroin Addict's Mother

Out of the maelstrom of a daughters heroin addiction come these gripping poems of love and powerlessness tenacity and surrender brokenness and resilience. In The Heroin Addicts Mother Miriam Greenspan eminent psychologist and author of the bestselling Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief Fear and Despair offers an intimate memoir that serves as a poetry of witness to the opiate epidemic that is ravaging millions of families throughout the United States.A...gritty and stirring collection of heartfelt poems...emanating from the power...of a mothers undying love for her addicted child. These poems will resonate with so many out in the world suffering from addiction. John F. Kelly Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine Harvard Medical School Founder/Director Recovery Research Institute Mass General HospitalGreenspan gifts us with...forceful and courageous poems that speak not only to mothers of addicted children but to all of us who have feared and fought for our children to be safe and well. Harriet Lerner Author of The Dance of Anger Only a true poet can tell such truths with such power... Deena Metzger Author of Ruin and Beauty ...breathtaking truly brilliant. Destined to be tremendously helpful to so many people going through similar terrifying gut-wrenching experience and to help others understand in great depth what that world is like. Paula J. Caplan Author of Dont Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship Miriams words capture the essence of what we who are touched by addiction live and breathe. They remind us we are not alone and that we too can recover. Joanne Peterson Founder/Executive Director