In Connelly’s debut memoir, a mother recounts the trials of supporting her heroin-addicted son. Addiction wreaks havoc on the life of the addict, but as this memoir shows, it can also wreak havoc on the lives of the addict’s family. Connelly’s son Timothy had been a heroin addict for years, and her efforts to help him tested the limits of her maternal obligation. “My son may not be a corpse, but for most of his life he’s been a drugged-out zombie,” writes Connelly in her introduction.“And for me I have felt as though I am a living corpse as I chase after him, trying to convince him to get help for his addiction.Tim may be addicted to heroin, but in turn I am addicted to making sure he stays alive.”
— Kirkus (To read the full review, click HERE)

Addicted to the Addicted should be a required reading for people struggling with addiction or those in recovery along with family and friends trying to help.
— John E McCormac, Mayor, Woodbridge, New Jersey

Addicted to the Addicted is a searing, sometimes funny, always moving, first person account of a woman loving her son who is addicted to any and every substance. He has very little control over it, and she has less over him. This is her journey of coming to understand addiction and its effect on a family, understand how she can help him, how she cannot, how treatment centers fail her over and over, and how, in the end, love is the only answer.
— Gay Walley, author of the Venus As She Ages collection, and the upcoming THE WAW.

I’m honored to recommend Marguerite’s memoir. She brings you into her world providing a clear-eyed assessment of her lifelong struggle to set herself free. From childhood through motherhood, her journey proves her perseverance and loyalty which have led her to overcome the brutal forces of addiction that have scarred her and her family through 3 generations. Her story will be all too familiar to almost everyone as the scourge of addiction is pandemic. I share Marguerite’s commitment to the Hanley Foundation, in the belief that early education and prevention can change the course not only for addicts, but for those who are addicted to the addicted.
— Suzanne Holmes

Marguerite Connelly rips open her soul to share with her readers the intimate and painful details that demanded her to share her journey. Addicted to the Addicted brings you from the brink of tragedy to the other side of her personal pain. Marguerite’s story encourages self-reflection and will bring you to understand that you, too, can walk the journey from heartbreak to hopeful.
— Jan Cairnes, Hanley Foundation