Why Don't They Just Quit?: What Families and Friends Need to Know about Addiction and Recovery.

Joe Herzanek

Jan 2015 · Changing Lives Foundation

About this ebook

This award-winning book covers critical topics: Can someone be totally set free from addiction?Can Meth addicts really recover?What to do about someone hooked on their pain meds?
Why a person does not have to hit rock-bottom When helping is actually hurting 
How to deal with a relapse 
Why effective intervention doesn't have to be a surprise attackWhat works, what doesn't and why. 

Why Don't They JUST QUIT? provides the answers you so desperately seek.

Ratings and reviews

New! Revised/2010 updated Edition (contains valuable new insights, resource info and first-person accounts from parents who have struggled and won!) Real-life solutions, written in "plain English" and easy to understand, this book speaks to friends and families of someone struggling with alcohol or drug abuse. Watching a loved one immersed in an intense battle with alcohol and drug abuse may be the most difficult, complex and harrowing experience you will ever have. This book offers a message of hope to families and friends, giving practical solutions so they can help anyone struggling with addiction to begin the road to recovery. You will learn: Why a person doesn't have to hit rock-bottom before getting help. (page 111) When helping is actually hurting. (page 57) Why quitting is not the same as recovering. (page 5) How to deal with a relapse. (page 187) How to receive 50 percent or more off the cost of treatment. (page 97) Why a parent would leave their child due to their addiction. (page 245) Why effective intervention doesn't have to be a surprise attack. (page 49) Answers to over 30 common, and not so common questions. Inspiring first-hand recovery stories from real people!

I bought and read this book when I found our the man I meet and fell in love with was a drug addict and alcoholic. Without this book and learning what I was in for and what I needed to do to help and support him we wouldn't be Married today. I read the book and got a understanding of what an addict thinks feels and reacts to the book helped me tons I loved it and now I am happy to say my husband has been clean and sober for 8 months.

About the author

Joe Herzanek, a man who battled his own demons of addiction over thirty years ago, says, "I know people can change. If I can do it, anyone can!"

Joe's own life struggles and practical advice offer hope and solutions to those living amidst the turmoil of someone's alcohol and drug abuse.

From age 13 to 29, Joe battled his own drug and alcohol addiction-finally receiving treatment. He now has over 33 years of abstinence from substances. Treatment gave him the information and structure needed to begin his journey of recovery.

Joe Herzanek is the president and founder of Changing Lives Foundation. As a certified addiction professional in Colorado he spent over seventeen years working in the criminal justice system as the Chaplain at the Boulder County Jail and currently the Chaplain at the Weld County Jail, Greeley, CO. 

Joe is the former host of Recovery Television, speaker, producer of several DVDs, including "The 10 Toughest Questions Families and Friends Ask About Addiction and Recovery" and author of the award-winning book "Why Don't They Just Quit?"

His passion is to help men and women who are struggling with addiction, as well as providing answers and solutions to family and friends who are searching for ways to help their loved-one begin the road to recovery.

Joe Herzanek and his wife Judy have three (adult) children, Jami, Jake, and Jessica, and enjoy the beautiful Colorado outdoors with their two Cairn Terriers, Lewis and Clark.

Joe offers words of encouragement: "Addiction is not a hopeless situation," he writes. "Addicts and alcoholics aren't crazy, and they can quit."