{"id":12204,"date":"2022-01-28T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:05:23","slug":"the-last-stop-by-patricia-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=12204","title":{"rendered":"The Last Stop by Patricia Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A deeply touching memoir about addiction, grief, and loss\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Street takes readers on her family\u2019s journey of pain and loss as she recounts their history dealing with her son\u2019s heroin addiction. What began as a prescription drug for pain management after he got his foot crushed in the hydraulics of a Bobcat, became an addiction for David and he got hooked on morphine. He was fifteen at the time. He soon began experimenting with alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs. During his twenties, his experimentation with various drugs came to an end when he found heroin and it became his drug of choice. Numerous traffic violations, court cases, jail time followed. Along came multiple relapses, which only added to the grief of Street and others in the family. Told from her own viewpoint and passages from David\u2019s journal entries, Street\u2019s narration describes her son\u2019s behavior with unbiased perspective, and she is achingly honest throughout, particularly about how as an addict, David repeatedly drew his family into his dangerous orbit. Street\u2019s prose is crisp without any hint of melodrama as she describes David\u2019s relapses that never helped him gain distance from his addiction. Instead of emerging on the other side with a semblance of a life still intact as Street and other family members hoped, David lost his battle with addiction in 2014, leaving his family to bear the loss. He was thirty-nine at the time. Raw and heart-rending, Street\u2019s candid take on her family\u2019s experience is both eye-opening and relevant, particularly in today\u2019s time of the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Last Stop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Patricia Street<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date September 15, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1952112560<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $30.00 (USD) Hardcover, $14.95 Paperback, $7.98 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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