Coauthor Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) both improve the quality of their lives and to learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers.

Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment. Called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), the program uses scientifically validated behavioral principles to reduce the loved one's substance use and to encourage him or her to seek treatment.

Also see articles by coauthor Brenda L. Wolfe, PhD.

"......Dr. Fleming has composed a masterpiece of helpful information" ".....Preventing Addiction deserves to be widely read, carefully studied and faithfully utilized." --Wayne L. DuBose, B.A. ThM., counselor and pastor of First Baptist Church, Minden, LA

"My wife loved Dr. Fleming's book so much that she is using it to teach her high school health class about the causes, dangers and ways to prevent addiction." --John Brewer, host, KNOC-AM "Talkback Natchitoches

**Also see related interview article: John C. Fleming, MD on Preventing Addiction

From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's story, but from the perspective of his father, David.

Also see article: Beautiful Boy author and son detail addiction in family.