Ebook: Even if your heart would listen: losing my daughter to heroin
Author: Natali Giana, Schiller Elise
- Tags: Daughters--Drug use, Drug addicts--Family relationships, Drug addicts--Family relationships--United States, Heroin abuse, Mothers and daughters, Parents of drug addicts, Women drug addicts--Family relationships, Biographies, Biography, Schiller Elise, Parents of drug addicts -- Biography, Women drug addicts -- Family relationships, Natali Giana, Daughters -- Drug use, Drug addicts -- Family relationships -- United States, Drug addicts -- Family relationships, United States
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: SparkPress
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
In January 2014, Elise Schiller's youngest child, thirty-three-year-old Giana Natali, died of a heroin overdose while a resident in a treatment program in Boulder County, Colorado. Even if Your Heart Would Listen is about Giana's life, which was full of accomplishments, and her mental illness, addiction, and death. Using excerpts from the journals, planners, and letters Giana left behind, as well as evidence from her medical records, Schiller dissects her daughter's treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) at the five residential and several outpatient programs in eastern Pennsylvania where she tried to recover, taking a close look at the lack of continuity and solid medical foundations in the American substance-use treatment system even as she explores the deeply personal experience of her own loss. Poignant and timely, Even if Your Heart Would Listen is a meditation on a family's grief, an intimate portrayal of a mother-daughter bond that endures, and an examination of how our...
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