Title: Starfish: A Hippie Mother’s Journey Through a Hard-Core Drug Rehab
Author: Donna George
Price: FREE from May 25 – 27, 2013
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Donna George lived by the California ocean with her daughters in the 1970s, a free spirit in a bohemian Mecca. Freedom was intoxicating, until the partying got out of hand, and her downward spiral ended in heroin addiction. For five years she checked herself into rehabs and outpatient clinics, but couldn’t get through a day without drugs. Unable to be a mother anymore, she left her children with virtual strangers in Hawaii, and abandoned herself to drugs.Then she was busted for prescription forgery and forced to choose between jail and Sunflower House, a mysterious long-term rehab based on confrontation. She knew the rumors: how hard the program was, how tough the counselors. She was afraid of being confronted. A year in jail would be easier and shorter. But if she wanted to be free of drugs and get her daughters back, the program was her last chance.

She believed she was too weak to make it through such a program. But deep inside she wanted to live. The program’s motto was, “The only way out is through.” She had to try this one last thing.

STARFISH is her story.