Young Sober and Free: Experience, Strength, and Hope for Young Adults

Shelly Marshall

Mai 2010 · Verkauft von Simon and Schuster

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Offering strategies for getting and staying sober, first-hand stories, and other resources for teens, parents, and professionals, Young, Sober, and Free helps young addicts and alcoholics through recovery.

Real teens tell the real story about getting sober and staying sober in this edgy, winning interpretation of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Shelly Marshall lets her teen contributors speak for themselves (and their words are not sugarcoated), while expertly augmenting the personal stories with discussions about time-honored Twelve Step recovery principles. Young, Sober, and Free, first published in 1978, aided the recovery of countless young addicts and alcoholics. This second edition, featuring four new stories from teens, is sure to inspire many more.

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Shelly Marshall has dedicated her entire life to working with young addicts. Her books Day by Day and Young, Sober, & Free are recovery classics. Her research in adolescent recovery has been published in five international journals making her world-recognized in the addiction's field. In addition to teaching counselor's how to work with young people in recovery, Ms. Marshall is the Russian Charity NAN (No to Alcohol and Drug Addiction) Foundation's representative to the United Nations. She is currently working on a first response manual for parents who need answers, not accusations, on meeting their child's drug crisis. Author Home Page: http://www.day-by-day.org