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"When Katherine James and her husband found out their son was using heroin, they struggled to come to grips with this surprising reality. In this sensitive, vulnerable memoir, award-winning novelist James tells her family's story through her son's addiction, overdose, and slow recovery. Not simply a look at drug abuse in suburban America, this story is also a meditation on loving a wayward child and trusting in God's providence through it all"--
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"From the early cave dwellers who first stumbled upon psychedelic mushrooms to the over 6000-year old tradition of opium cultivation in the East to a modern pharmaceutical industry with over 24,000 drugs on the market, drugs have played a role in our lives since well before recorded human history ... [This program] will journey through the millennia and look in on the greatest civilizations in human history to discover if drugs helped these societies...