Shattered: Stories of Lives Broken by Substance Abuse and How We Put the Pieces Back Together is a compilation of personal narratives focused on Substance Abuse and how this disease has impacted our lives.
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The more we discuss this critical issue, the less ashamed people will feel in seeking professional treatment.
We must continue to break the stigma and offer more resources, so people know where to turn to for help.
People have overcome the disease.
The disease spreads like a virus, infecting everybody closest to it, but people need to know that there is hope.
It affects every aspect of a person\'s life.
Substance Abuse does not discriminate.
He and his wife founded the McShin Foundation in Virginia, and their recovery center has helped transform many lives.
John Shinholser is a man who struggled with addiction for years before he realized he no longer wanted to live that life-that he wanted more for himself.
Ed Bisch, an outspoken activist, described his years-long fight against Purdue Pharma after he lost his eighteen-year-old son to an OxyContin overdose in February 2001.
His foundation uses sports and recreation to replace addiction.
This book is full of inspiring stories, including those who are actively making a difference in the Lives of others: Blu Robinson, a Clinical Mental Health Therapist, Substance Use Disorder Counselor, and founder of Addict II Athlete (a non-profit in Utah), wrote a powerful and moving foreword.
She founded a nonprofit organization, Why Us Kids, to raise awareness of the youth mental health crisis in our country.
To turn her tragic situation into a positive one, she hosts mental health rallies in North Carolina and fights to keep trauma counselors in school.
Her father suffers from Substance use disorder and is not present in her life.
Ten-year-old Gracie Parker lost her mother to a drug-related incident when she was six months old and then was adopted by her grandparents.
Each story is unique; written in that specific writer\'s voice, but all of us express our vulnerability, allowing the reader to dive in and feel what we experienced on the rollercoaster ride of addiction.
Shattered tackles addiction from several different angles.
Several of our writers lost loved ones to drugs and alcohol, some have dedicated their Lives to helping those in need, some have battled their addictions, recovered, and come out stronger than ever, and all of us have witnessed the effects on family and friends.
Shattered: Stories of Lives Broken by Substance Abuse and How We Put the Pieces Back Together is a compilation of personal narratives focused on Substance Abuse and how this disease has impacted our lives
