Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children; she never imagined that her identical twin sons, who had been doing so well at school, would become involved in drugs....
I have recently celebrated my 18 years of complete abstinence from all mind altering chemicals along with taku hoa rakatira.
There was nothing I wouldn’t have done for him…but I couldn’t follow him down a path of destruction and harm, the direct result of his drug addiction.
I have been at war with myself for fifteen years now. Oh, the sorrow of war!
Our son’s addiction has had a significant affect on other family/whānau members.
