Lost At Home, Abroad

by Toni Marie


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Softcover
£9.25
Softcover
£9.25

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 01/01/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 112
ISBN : 9781587216411

About the Book

Lost at Home, Abroad is one woman s candid memoir that uses brutal honesty to recount her struggles with drug addiction, military life and the effects it had on self, family and friends. The story relates the harsh realities of balancing a life as an upper middle class housewife and mother with hard-core drug addiction and the resulting moral decline. The story poignantly relates her path of addiction beginning with obtaining legal prescription narcotics, soliciting unnecessary surgeries to slamming I.V. heroin in the Haight Street projects in San Francisco while her children waited at school for a ride home.

The memoir moves between flashbacks of the author s first marriage, her heart-wrenching experiences as a neglectful addicted parent, and her struggles to stay clean while serving on active duty over-seas. The author finds hope for recovery through divine intervention, in spite of numerous failed treatments, multiple hospitalizations and subsequent relapses.

Lost at Home, Abroad is a story of desperation and hope, personal failure and triumph, and graphically shares one woman s long battle to gain control over her addiction and her gratitude for recovery.


About the Author

Toni Marie was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her Bachelor s in Nursing from Grand Canyon University and her Master s in Nursing from the University of Phoenix. She lives in Arizona and works as a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist at a treatment facility specializing in treating drug addicted pregnant and post partum women. She is a published researcher in the area of Spirituality and Addiction and has presented at multiple professional conferences. She is dedicated to recovery and focuses on the special needs of women. Her family resides in Phoenix, and her sons are currently enrolled in College in the Phoenix area. Her first book Lost at Home, Abroad is dedicated to her sons. She continues to serve in the Army Reserves as a nurse.