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Author Clark, Imogen.

Title Saving Jessie : a mother's moving story of her daughter's battle with heroin / Imogen Clark
Published Sydney : Doubleday, 1999

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 W'PONDS  362.293 Cla/Sje  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 277 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Series Diyll
Di@yll
Summary A Mother's Moving Story Of her Daughter's Battle With Heroin. Nothing could prepare Imogen Clark for the shock of discovering that her daughter was a heroin addict. The youngest child in a tightly knit, loving family, Jessie was intelligent, beautiful and talented - she did not fit the stereotype of the unhappy child who turns to drugs to escape pain.This astonishingly candid, deeply moving and inspiring account of a mother's battle to find the strength to deal with her daughter's heroin addiction confronts the reality of every parent's nightmare. It is the story of an ordinary family whose lives were changed forever by heroin addiction. It will offer comfort and hope to others facing the same battle - and reassure them that they are not alone. Jessie and her family have won the battle - for now. But it is a story without an end: "We will struggle day by day for a very long time before it might become part of our family history and someone will be able to mention almost in passing, 'Do you remember when Jessie was using?'"
Analysis Drug use and abuse
Heroin addiction
Biography
Parents
Notes Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2000
Subject Clark, Jessie
Clark, Jessica.
Heroin abuse.
Youth -- Drug use.
Drug addicts.
LC no. 00001414
ISBN 1864710020
9781864710021
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