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Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life

“Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life is a heartbreaking and also heartwarming testament to the need to understand and address addiction as a preventable and treatable disease. As Linda Dahl eloquently demonstrates, countless families are not aware of the risk factors for this disease, how it may affect girls and women differently, or what to do if they have to face it. Instead, they are left to sift through a confusing array of providers rarely offering treatment known to be effective, and to blame themselves for relapses resulting from inadequate treatment or the disease itself. Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life is an important resource for families, especially families with daughters. It is a message of hope—that addiction can be prevented and treated effectively and that people with the disease can learn to manage it and live healthy, productive lives.”

—Susan E. Foster, Executive Director, ABAM Foundation’s National Center for Physician Training in Addiction Medicine, and principal investigator for Women Under the Influence, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University

“This is a very valuable and important book. Linda Dahl has written a touching and compassionate guide for those who are seeking addiction treatment for their daughters. She has clearly outlined the pain that mothers experience, as well as the need for and importance of specialized services for women and girls. As I think of the mothers who have called me over the years seeking advice about how to help their daughters, I wish I had had this resource to recommend. Any mother who is struggling to help her daughter will find Loving Our Addicted Daughters to be a gift.”

—Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, psychotherapist and author of A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps

“Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life is a significant contribution to the concerns around women and addiction. While validating the gut-wrenching pain of a mother with an addicted daughter, the book is offset with hopeful practical tips on discerning a chemical problem, finding help, as well as sensitive suggestions for greater understanding and hope. A timely reading with a balance of anecdote and research.”

—Brenda J. Iliff, former Director of Hazelden Women’s Recovery Center and author of A Woman’s Guide to Recovery

“Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life brings hope to parents who have daughters struggling with addiction. Linda Dahl articulately combines her personal journey with some of the latest gender-specific addiction treatment research. This easy-to-follow guide provides parents with practical tools and resources, including a much-needed comparative listing of treatment centers.”

—Michael Gurian, co-founder of the Gurian Institute and author of The Wonder of Girls