Writing When Enough Is Enough by Candy Finnigan

The idea for writing When Enough is Enough was forced into my consciousness by events.  After I became an interventionist on the A&E show, "Intervention", I began receiving a lot of email from people in trouble.  Families beset by seemingly insurmountable problems with children, fathers, mothers. 

Soon the steady stream of mail from people desperate for help, became a torrent.  I was getting hundreds of letters and I felt duty-bound to answer them. There were questions about the symptoms of addiction, about where to get help in a certain part of the country, questions about insurance, about the proper response to various crises, about the availability of government assistance, and more. 

In addition to  information about the choices available for the chemically dependent, there was often a clear necessity to explain the need for action on the part of family members to address co-dependency - the destructiveness of their own habits of thinking and acting, and how that might be enabling the addict.  Each piece of mail seemed to demand a specific response. 

During the process of dealing with this deluge it became apparent that there was a genuine need for some straightforward instructional literature which addressed the problems of the many thousands who find themselves facing the destructive power of addiction.  My brother-in-law, Sean Finnigan, is a writer and is someone who has a great deal of experience in recovery so it seemed natural to partner with him in this effort. 

We produced a book I believe can be invaluable for anyone looking for answers  to the riddle that is chemical dependency.  

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