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A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction - A Memoir

A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction - A Memoir

Becker, Paula

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Biographies GeneralAddiction & RecoveryGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1609386590
ISBN13: 9781609386597
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: Sep 15 2019
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright, curious child. And yet, addiction found him.

More than 2.5 million Americans are addicted to opioids, some half-million of these to heroin. For many of them, their drug addiction leads to lives of demoralization, homelessness, and constant peril. For parents, a child's addiction upends family life, catapulting them onto a path no longer prescribed by Dr. Spock, but by Dante's Inferno. Within this ten-year crucible, Paula is transformed by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what she can do and what she cannot do.

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