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A House on Stilts

Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

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A House on Stilts

By: Paula Becker
Narrated by: Paula Becker
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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 10-year crucible, Paula is transformed by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what she can do and what she cannot do.

©2019 Paula Becker (P)2019 Post Hypnotic Press Inc. Addiction & Recovery Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships Substance abuse
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This was a beautifully written book about the saddest of subjects. Addiction is a family disease. So much suffering and loss.
Where addiction meets a mothers love. There are no winners

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