Tough Love: How Parents Can Deal With Drug Abuse | Pauline Neff

Tough Love: How Parents Can Deal With Drug Abuse | Pauline Neff | Great book!

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	Tough Love: How Parents Can Deal With Drug Abuse Pauline Neff Abingdon Press, 1996 - 158 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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For more than a decade, Tough Love has been the standard text for families dealing with substance abuse. Now revised to reflect the changes in the Palmer Drug Abuse Program on which it was based, Tough Love again meets the needs of families in turmoil. Neff gathers real-life accounts of young drug users who needed to receive help, and of the parents' role in seeing that they received it.

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Having a child addicted to alcohol or drugs is one of the most heartbreaking and challenging problems that parents may face. Here, in a revision of her bestselling 1982 book, Neff offers practical, loving and completely updated help to those struggling with that situation. Although the specific 12-step program that Neff stresses does not exist everywhere, parents can adopt the principles she outlines and form support groups with other parents. Central to Neff's approach is "detachment from the abuser," which entails allowing the abuser to "bottom out" without "padding the corners" (often called "enabling" in other references). This method, argues Neff, provides one of the few hopes for the abuser and his or her family. It is also terrifying, however, to parents who lack the support and distancing of the tough-love approach. By far the largest part of Neff's book is devoted to the stories of seven families who have faced the crisis of the addicted child and come through it stronger and more spiritually intact. In short, this book should be required reading for every parent with a child in trouble.

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Great book!

I bought this book in the 80's and it did wonders for me! It helped me to get control of "me" again... and I went forward with my son from there.

Tough Love - Help for the family

Very Good. It is about the work of a group called Palmer Drug Abuse Program and the work they do with the whole family. I wish there were more groups like this.

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