Living Jonathan's Life

AMERICA PLAGUED BY “HOME DELIVERED”ADDICTION Getting addicted is now as easy as clicking your mouse. With today’s Internet access, next-day delivery of prescription painkillers is just a point and click away. For an estimated 3.5 million adult Americans abusing prescription narcotics — including a growing number of kids — getting addicted is becoming just as easy. That concern drove Dr. Scott Davis of the world-renowned Betty Ford Center to write Living Jonathan’s Life, a harrowing account of his own personal descent into drug addiction following the death of his identical twin brother — who also died from addiction and AIDS. This is a timely story in a nation where the availability of narcotics, including those drugs being prescribed by physicians, is fast approaching an epidemic and where prescription narcotics have become the #1 drug of choice among teens — even surpassing marijuana. The book makes clear that anyone can become addicted. But there is hope with treatment and therapy even where the resources are shrinking daily.