Loss Of Innocence: A daughter's addiction. A father's fight to save her.
Carren Clem · Ron Clem
May 2012 · Random House
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The Clems were a family living the American dream until their fifteen-year-old daughter Carren became addicted to Meth. Within two months of first taking the highly addictive drug, Carren had moved out of the family home, spent her entire savings on Meth and resorted to stealing, dealing and prostitution to pay for her habit.
Told from both Carren's perspective and from the perspective of her father Ron, Loss of Innocence shares the shocking story of how a middle-class girl growing up in a stable home could get so lost. A former LA police officer, Ron describes how he went back to being a cop to try to rescue his daughter and how he suffered a heart attack in the street when he witnessed Carren selling herself to a drug dealer; Carren shares the events leading up to her first taste of drugs, and her descent into addiction with moving candour and dignity.
Carren is now clean and sober, and in this frank, compelling book she and her family prove that there can be life after drug addiction.
Told from both Carren's perspective and from the perspective of her father Ron, Loss of Innocence shares the shocking story of how a middle-class girl growing up in a stable home could get so lost. A former LA police officer, Ron describes how he went back to being a cop to try to rescue his daughter and how he suffered a heart attack in the street when he witnessed Carren selling herself to a drug dealer; Carren shares the events leading up to her first taste of drugs, and her descent into addiction with moving candour and dignity.
Carren is now clean and sober, and in this frank, compelling book she and her family prove that there can be life after drug addiction.
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4.5
15 reviews
Josephine Parr
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June 2, 2015
The book is very good you not only get to see the effects meth addiction has on the family but alsocwhat the addict goes thru. This book helped me help my best friend thru addiction. Very well done best book i have read in a while
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Shelley Hughes
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February 10, 2013
Read this a while ago and it truly moved me, a father's love for his daughter and her battle with addiction really leap from the pages...
Arthur White
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May 8, 2015
Very good read it didn't pull punches
About the author
Ron Clem, a retired Los Angeles police officer, is the president of non-profit organisation Teens in Crisis. He is a court-recognised methamphetamine expert and has testified in numerous court cases involving children and methamphetamines. His daughter, Carren, works in Yellowstone National Park.
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