Hands Up: The Power of Surrender: Defeating Addiction

Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / General Addiction is a growing epidemic. Addiction touches so many people, making the message of this book relevant to rich, poor or middle class, to rural or suburbia, to inner city teens or elderly wealthy business owners, to black, white, yellow, purple or rainbow, male or female, young or old, straight or otherwise, religious, atheist or agnostic, to you if you are breathing! The book Hands Up speaks to the addict, the family who loves the person addicted and the community who needs to know more about the disease of addiction. It is a collaboration, written from more than one perspective. It is a collection of RAW, TRANSPARENT truths related to addiction, heroin addiction specifically. No sugar coating. No shame. No hiding. Just writing and speaking the way it really is. The only way we eliminate darkness is to shed as much light as we have on it. This book contains painfully honest and transparent true stories of two addicts and the mother of an addict, as well as what wisdom each would give to the addict and the loved ones of a person struggling with addiction. The hardest thing to do (but the most necessary for help and change) is to put your Hands Up and acknowledge you need help. This is true for not just an addict or a person in crisis. It is for the addict who wants to acknowledge they may have a problem bigger than they can solve alone and the community, who may also need to put their Hands Up as well, even if for other reasons, surrounds that same person in crisis. Hands Up is written: 1. To educate and shed light on the topic for the community and concerned loved ones. 2. As a resource to encourage those in the “madness” to get help and know they are not alone. Just saving one life from the life of walking dead is worth every bit. 3. As a fundraiser in which 100% (Yes, you read correctly ONE HUNDRED PERCENT) of the profits from this book will go to starting, maintaining and founding as many recovery houses that offer effective and useful collateral services. We will also make sure to give copies away to those who need to hear this message. Each purchase help us in “writing about the wrong” so we can “RIGHT the wrongs” caused by heroin and the current opioid-related epidemic. By purchasing this book, you are giving a HAND UP so we can give a HAND UP and not a hand out to those in recovery. The proceeds go to helping recovering addicts re-establish themselves as productive citizens and those who need help getting recovery in starting the wonderful journey to a new life of sobriety. So HANDS UP for a high five for you for partnership with us and for supporting the mission, by purchasing or reading this book. Read more