Addiction doesn’t just affect the person caught up by the disease, it affects the entire family. 

For many struggling with heroin addiction, their path to use began with prescription opioid drugs.  While there are a few of opioid prescriptions the public is familiar with, there are far more available than most people realize.

Books have long provided the way for parents to explain or bring up a difficult situation. There’s actually wide choice of tween, teen and YA fiction available about drug abuse and addiction out there, with new releases, perennial bestsellers and one book that parents – and grandparents – devoured in the ‘70s. But, while many…