How to Drug-Proof Kids: A Parents' Guide to Early Prevention [Paperback]

Jodi M. Freeman (Author), Terry Flanagan (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Here are three books on the same topic but with radically different contents. Two tell personal tales of addiction and rehabilitation, while the third is a parents' guide to "drug-proofing." This guide, somewhat didactic in tone, offers numerous activities for improving children's self-esteem, decision-making skills, assertiveness, and resistance to peer pressure. Other issues discussed include characteristics of drug-free children, their families, and communities; drug-related statistics; signs and stages of drug abuse; and resources for further information. The ten stories in Addicted are replete with four-letter words and incredible emotional suffering. The young recovering addicts aged 15 to 20 who tell their stories represent all economic, racial, and religious backgrounds. Some used only pills and/or alcohol, while others were addicted to cocaine, crack, and heroin. The book is compulsive reading, with the reader wishing desperately for the narrator to seek help in kicking the destructive cycle of addiction. Addiction exerts an enormous hold over the addict's life as well as distorting perceptions and damaging judgment, and here the pain of lost young lives is told with a minimum of editorial comment. While one is struck by the pain of the stories in Addicted , one's impression of Burnt is that of a young man glorying in the number and variety of substances he abused. Page after page details drug deals and the rituals of his life while addicted. How Fraser managed to remember so many details is a mystery to this reader. He describes his initial unwillingness to acknowledge his addiction and his defiance of the rules and regulations of the treatment program in which he is placed by his parents. This book and his joining Narcotics Anonymous may have been cathartic for Fraser, but it is hard to decide to whom this book will appeal. All three books are suited mainly to subject collections.
- Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 179 pages
• Publisher: Ags Pub (January 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093787132X
• ISBN-13: 978-0937871324
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,364,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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