June Ariano-Jakes shares a search for answers and the lengths she went to in trying to help her drug-addicted son
June Ariano-Jakes is the mother of five adult children and the grandmother of four. While she worked by day as a Licensed Childcare Provider, June spent literally thousands of nights poring over books and articles in the search for answers to help her son Nathan battle what would become a twenty-year-long heroin and cocaine addiction.
Addiction: A Mother’s Story is June’s account of addiction through a mother’s eyes. The book portrays the progression of Nathan’s addiction as the chapters unfold, how his addiction progressed to devastating and life altering circumstances and how it affected Nathan, his family and his mother.
“There are so many books written by professionals, but there isn’t a whole lot written by parents (of addicts),” June told the Surrey Leader newspaper.
We speak with June Ariano-Jakes, in an interview first broadcast on March 22, 2012.
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