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  • Saving Jake

  • When Addiction Hits Home
  • By: D'Anne Burwell
  • Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
  • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (130 ratings)

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Saving Jake

By: D'Anne Burwell
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
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D'Anne Burwell's smart, athletic son - raised in a loving and prosperous home - begins abusing OxyContin as a teenager, and within a year drops out of college, walks out of rehab, and lands homeless on the streets of Boulder. Struggling with fear, guilt, and a desperate need to protect her son, D'Anne grapples with her husband's anger and her daughter's depression as the family disease of addiction impacts them all. She discovers the terrifying links between prescription-drug abuse and skyrocketing heroin use. And she comes to understand that to save her child she must step back and allow him to fight for his own soul.

Saving Jake gives voice to the devastation shared by the families of addicts, and provides vital hope. Above all, it is a powerful personal story of love and redemption.

©2015 D'Anne Burwell (P)2019 Tantor
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Great Book!

Finally, someone who knows my struggle- my story! I wish I had purchased this book sooner.

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Raw perspective of a parent

This story was a powerful, real story of how difficult it can be to not know what is happening with your child but still know they are slipping away. I appreciated her effort to change some of her behaviors and will be putting some of those into practice myself.

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Relatable, heartfelt hope

The author made this a very relatable story that offers a gleam of hope and light at thee d of the tunnel.

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Always enjoy an addiction genre book

A great view from close family of how addiction ravages almost all it touches - and how the journey of recovery also can touch those near and dear to an addict

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just what I needed!!!

love this book and took away alot of ideas. she describes my life:(
loved the narrator!!

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Great book

This book has helped me understand my own son and his addiction. Thank you for this!!!

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Courageous mother

I am so impressed by this mother. I certainly hope this son knows how fortunate he is to have a mother with such compassion and whole-hearted genius LOVE. This type of mother is often not the case for so many recovering addicts. A mom like this making the addict feel so cared for by doing her own recovery in Alanon is not every recovery addicts experience as they struggle to reach and maintain the credibly challenging journey of recovery. For those of you with moms like this one in this book, she needs to be at the top of your gratitude list every night before you go to bed. God bless the mothers that go all in and learn everything they possibly can to best help their child and help themselves. This woman represents true motherly love!

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Enjoyed listening to this

Felt the readers voice fit the story perfectly! Found helpful to hear perspective from the parent. I am a recovering addict 12.5 years clean/sober. I can't even fathom the hell I put my parents thru.

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Loved this Book!!!

Such an excellent book! Very well written and an honor to listen to this brave mom’s story! Thank you for sharing with all of us D’Anne!

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An honest look at a mother’s journey into her son’s addiction battle

This book touched on the very real parts of the struggle of a son or daughter battling addiction. It reminded me that the journey does not end and it is ok to not be ok.

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