Lost at Home, Abroad is one woman s candid memoir that uses brutal honesty to recount her struggles with drug addiction, military life and the effects it had on self, family and friends. The story relates the harsh realities of balancing a life as an upper middle class housewife and mother with hard-core drug addiction and the resulting moral decline. The story poignantly relates her path of addiction beginning with obtaining legal prescription narcotics, soliciting unnecessary surgeries to slamming I.V. heroin in the Haight Street projects in San Francisco while her children waited at school for a ride home.
The memoir moves between flashbacks of the author s first marriage, her heart-wrenching experiences as a neglectful addicted parent, and her struggles to stay clean while serving on active duty over-seas. The author finds hope for recovery through divine intervention, in spite of numerous failed treatments, multiple hospitalizations and subsequent relapses.
Lost at Home, Abroad is a story of desperation and hope, personal failure and triumph, and graphically shares one woman s long battle to gain control over her addiction and her gratitude for recovery.