Love First, 2nd Edition
A standard setting book on intervention, Love First has helped tens of thousands of families, friends, and professionals create a loving and effective plan for helping those who suffer from addiction. This revised and expanded edition adds to the core material of this classic book with the most up-to-date scientific information and new intervention techniques for alcohol and other drug addictions — and an array of disorders.
First published in 2000, the second edition of Love First, revised and expanded, was published in 2008. It includes a new letter writing technique, additional resources and more information on co-occurring disorders.
"A convincing new approach to intervention that puts love and respect first."
-Jack Canfield, Coauthor
Chicken Soup for the Soul series
"Building a team, choosing a chairperson,anticipating objections, using checklists, and rehearsing for the intervention itself. The reader will find it all here!"
-Robert M. Morse, M.D., Professor of psychiatry emeritus, Mayo Medical School
former Director of Addictive Disorders Services
Mayo Clinic
"A no-nonsense approach to how to save someone you love from the ravages of addiction disease."
-William Cope Moyers, author of Broken
"Love First is destined to become the new classic on intervention for alcoholism and drug addiction. The most comprehensive book available on the life-saving technique of intervention, Love First will save lives! A worthy successor to Vernon Johnson's I'll Quit Tomorrow."
-Kathy Ketcham, Coauthor, Beyond the Influence and The Spirituality of Imperfection
"A landmark book that gives families life-saving tools to help get a loved one into recovery. Bravo for this book that puts love first!"
-Jim Ramstad, United States Congressional Representative
"Love First provides the most detailed account yet of how intervention works. A significant contribution to intervention literature. An empowering antidote to the disease of addiction."
-William l. White, author Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment
"I am truly excited about the new book "Love First". Jeff and Debra Jay have described so eloquently addictive disease within the family and more importantly, what a family can do about it. Most alcoholics and addicts are not able to access the treatment they need. Families and loved ones who read this new look at intervention will find the keys to begin the process of recovery."
-John T. Schwarzlose, President
Betty Ford Center
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Read the foreword to Love First by former Senator George McGovern, who lost his daughter Terry to alcoholism. Click here.