Someone you love is destroying himself. Or maybe that someone is you.

You have tried everything - the conversations, the ultimatums, the promises, the programs. You have lain awake at night asking questions that have no answers and praying prayers that feel like they hit the ceiling. You have watched addiction take a person you knew and replace him with someone you don't recognize. And you have wondered, more times than you can count, whether there is a way through this - or whether "through" is just a word people say when they don't know what else to offer.

This book was not written by a counselor, a clinician, or a theologian. It was written by a man who was introduced to drugs at thirteen, arrested at seventeen and sentenced to life in prison, and who spent the next three decades watching addiction destroy everything it touched - including himself.

It is a straightforward examination of what God's Word says about how the mind turns away from God, how it turns back, and why the substance was never the real problem. The gaze was.

Inspired by the teaching of Freddie Anderson. A separate ten-week Scripture study guide is available for use in prison ministries, reentry programs, congregational studies, and families.