Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial. "Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business,...

Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment--and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen--Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.

This guidebook takes the reader through the process of building a life after addiction by adopting new behaviors that create lasting change.The author's approach which he calls "the neuroscience of common sense", advocates holistic methods to prevent relapse and establish new patterns to create a sustainable, meaningful life.

Describes the program of Narcotics Anonymous and lets recovering addicts tell their own stories.