Detachment has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict s loved ones has been to let the addict hit bottom before intervening. Now intervention specialist Debra Jay challenges this belief and offers a bold new approach to treating addiction that provides a practical and spiritual lifeline to families struggling with alcohol or drug abuse.
In No More Letting Go, Jay argues that the traditional advice of letting go too often destroys both the addict and the family physically, emotionally, and...