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Mary Weston
Paul Ambrose
Lisa Mondello
Rae Welch
Lane Branden

1. Mary Weston

Mary Weston is the pseudonym of an award-winning journalist and mother whose child’s life was seriously endangered by his youthful abuse of alcohol and drugs. In each of the books she has written for this website, she offers medical, psychological and personal insights into the addictions plaguing youngsters. She also adds worksheets called Action Pages designed to help youngsters – and others – to stop or never start using any of today’s dangerous drugs.

In AMERICA’S HIDDEN EPIDEMIC: YOUTHFUL ABUSE OF ALCOHOL, she shares with her readers her own experiences with her child and 60 others she hosted from a teenage alcohol and drug rehabilitation center. Mary’s depth of research and fact checking plus her own personal experiences with her “hosted boys” and other personal stories illuminate the costs of alcohol abuse, including “binge” drinking. Mary pulls no punches about those whose drug marketing– and alcohol is a drug – includes marketing to our youth.

In USING IS ABUSING; THE DARK SIDE OF DRUGS, Mary concentrates on the many illegal “street” drugs as well as prescription and Over-the-Counter drugs children and young adults are currently abusing, including the latest — “cheese heroin”. She offers some straight information about the latest schoolyard drug dealer’s marketing ploys – and some will surprise you. Again, her depth of research and fact checking plus her own and others’ personal experiences outline physical and psychological costs of drug abuse.
In this book, she addresses the latest rape weapon: club drugs. If your children attend “raves” or drinks beverages while away from home, her information will help you help your youngsters know how to protect themselves.
Rape facilitating drugs are covered in detail including the legal consequences to those predators who use these cowardly methods. This chapter is dedicated to Natalee Holloway, an Alabama high school girl who disappeared from Aruba after visiting a local nightclub with her classmates. Aruban authorities have suggested that she may have been a victim of these drugs. She has never been seen since. Mary’s Action Pages offer parents and youths solutions and resources that will surely aid them to protect themselves from these threats. This book also provide Prevention and Cessation tips.

In TOBACCO: THE FASHIONABLE POISON, Mary, a former US Navy Medic and nursing student, reveals her own decades-long struggle with one of the nations’ most dangerous drugs—Nicotine. She not only addresses smoking tobacco but zeroes in on the newest rage among youngsters: hookah smoking. She also includes the story of Sean Marsee, the first teenager in America said to have died as a result of using chewing or Spit tobacco. Mary offers information that outlines how tobacco companies recruit youthful new users. And how to counter their billion dollar influence. Clip Action Pages for anyone starting or addicted to using tobacco. Save a life; it may be your own.

2. Paul Ambrose

Paul Ambrose is a recovering drug addict who entered treatment for substance abuse in 1988 at the age of 21. He has been an active member of both Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous for over 19 years and has been involved in various spiritual groups and practices during this time. He is presently completing his PhD in philosophy while working as a freelance writer. Paul hopes to publish further material around the work of Dr. David R. Hawkins who is now his main focus of study and for whom he is greatly indebted to in many ways. It is through his associations with Dr. Hawkins that Paul has drawn much of his spiritual understanding and direction in recent years and he hopes that this work may attract others to pursue Dr. Hawkins work in the future as well. In this way, they might benefit from the work in the same way that he has and thereby pass it along to others just as we do in both NA and AA.

3. Lisa Mondello

Lisa Mondello is a published author of romantic fiction and a successful freelance copywriter. She currently writes romantic suspense novels for Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense.For the past 6 years she and her husband have been raising their niece and nephew, along with their two daughters, as a result of alcoholismin their family.

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4. Rae Welch

Writing under the pen name Rae Welch, the author of Dual Demons: Wrestling with Multiple Addictions tackles the complex problem of dealing with multiple drug and alcohol addictions at one time. Welch has fought through her own dual drug addiction and gone on to earn a University degree in Psychology bringing a unique perspective to this book. She brings her own unique experience as well as the individual experiences of other sufferers to the book, offering an exclusive insiders view into the world of dual addiction.

5. Lane Branden

Lane Branden is a pseudonym for a professional writer, a former U.S. Navy Medical Corpsman, a former model, and a former community worker with at risk youth. She also worked with a teenage substance abuse rehabilitation center for over a year. Her hobbies are reading, writing, working with her pet therapy trained dog, and baking bread and cakes. She is an avid gardener and eats the veggies she grows. She also volunteers as a docent in a lighthouse now open to the public. Her at home business,

Ezwriters, provides top notch copy for online websites, ebooks, blogs and political campaigns.

Her mission in life: To help youngsters survive – and blossom – in difficult times.

On the positive side, opportunities abound in our nation and Lane is dedicated to helping others learn how to take advantage of them. Her mobile vocational program called “Up, Up and Away,” created and managed by her while an undergraduate, and in cooperation with the City of Baltimore and its Youth Agency, received a mayoral award for its success. The only cost to the city? A once a week bus and a driver. All other activities and products were volunteered.

“I believe that information is power and I am pleased to provide factual, carefully researched and myth busting information for families.

I dedicate Light Up Your Life (Insights for Another24) to all parents, guardians and the children they love.
As ever, Lane.