Young Sober and Free: Experience, Strength, and Hope for Young Adults

by Shelly Marshall

Overview

Offering strategies for getting and staying sober, first-hand stories, and other resources for teens, parents, and professionals, Young, Sober, and Free helps young addicts and alcoholics through recovery.

Real teens tell the real story about getting sober and staying sober in this edgy, winning interpretation of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Shelly Marshall lets her teen contributors speak for themselves (and their words are not sugarcoated), while expertly augmenting the personal stories with discussions about time-honored Twelve Step recovery principles. Young, Sober, and Free, first published in 1978, aided the recovery of countless young addicts and alcoholics. This second edition, featuring four new stories from teens, is sure to inspire many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568389868
Publisher:	Hazelden Publishing
Publication date:	04/07/2003
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Shelly Marshall has dedicated her entire life to working with young addicts. Her books Day by Day and Young, Sober, & Free are recovery classics. Her research in adolescent recovery has been published in five international journals making her world-recognized in the addiction's field. In addition to teaching counselor's how to work with young people in recovery, Ms. Marshall is the Russian Charity NAN (No to Alcohol and Drug Addiction) Foundation's representative to the United Nations. She is currently working on a first response manual for parents who need answers, not accusations, on meeting their child's drug crisis. Author Home Page: http://www.day-by-day.org

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
1.	Never Too Young	1
	Cindy's Story	13
2.	We've All Been Hung Up on God	17
	Leon's Story	23
3.	Escape to Reality	29
	Lee's Story	38
4.	Don't Stop Now	45
	Suzanne's Story	53
5.	S.O.S.: Saving Our Selves	59
	Joey's Story	65
6.	Personal Relationships	71
	Kitt's Story	79
7.	To Parents, by Parents	85
	Cinda's Story	99
8.	Are They All Out to Get Us?	103
	Rondell's Story	110
9.	Yes, But ...	115
	Andy's Story	127
	Noel's Story	132
	Appendix
	The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous	137
	The Twelve Steps of Chemically Dependent Anonymous	138
	The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous	139
	Index	141
	About the Author	149