I would like to thank you for publishing Why Don't They Just QUIT? !   I currently live in Colorado. I am 22 years old. My 19-year-old brother is battling a cocaine addiction. He began selling cocaine out of his home in Kansas. He was selling cocaine in order to make some extra money and to feed his addiction. He started experimenting with drugs at the age of 16, and alcohol before that. His drug addiction caused him to lie to and steal from his family. Because he lived so far away and most of us rarely talked to him we didn't really know how bad his addiction had become until he began calling us weekly to bail him out of jail. Sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't. He is currently in rehab, in Dodge City, KS. After that he has to complete 24 months of intensely supervised probation.

    There is nothing in the world that prepares a family for any of this. I knew that he had a drug problem, but I didn't think that it had gotten to that point. I didn't know how to help, I had no idea where to even start. Even though I knew that he had a problem I was in no way prepared for what was to come. I had no idea that he was selling drugs.

    I would especially like to thank you for including the chapter about and for siblings! My parents are divorced and my father lives in Southern Colorado, I have never had a good relationship with my father. My mom and dad have a severe miscomunication problem. Neither one of them want to call each other do deal with all of the things that we have to do to help my brother. Due to the fact that my parents do not communicate with each other, I have been put in the middle to relay messages from one to the other. This has taken a huge toll on my life as well; my father never calls me unless he wants me to relay a message to my mom about my brother--never calls just to ask how I am. I feel like I have been the forgotten one.

    We also have 3 step-sisters who have drug problems. They all have several kids that are the result of the life that the drugs have lead them down. It kills me that I have watched all 4 of my siblings let their lives go to drugs. I have never used drugs and don't ever want to! I do ocasionally have a drink, but rarely get drunk. I successfully completed high school and college. My brother dropped out of high school, and my sisters graduated from high school but never went on to college. Well, actually they went to college but never made it through the first semester. They now struggle to hold a job and are on welfare--not a life that I like to see my niece and nephews live.

    I truley appreciate your work, and can't thank you enough for writing and publishing this book!!! You have touched the lives of many people, whom you have never even met! You have a gift!