Launced the first support group for prescription and over-the counter drug abusers and their families. As the founder of Prescription (Rx) Anonymous, she lobbies Congress seeking new laws requiring warning labels on addictive medication. A member of the National Council of Patient Information and Education, she is also employed by the American Red Cross.

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Publishers Weekly

Although the philosophy of Prescription Anonymous, with its talk of admitting one's powerlessness over the drugs and submitting to a higher power, etc., is very similar to that of other recovery support programs such as AA and NA, the author felt that others like her needed to talk with those who...seen as emblematic of the state of crime in America today – American blacks living in fear of American whites. Who cares, as author and radio host Larry Elder recently wrote, citing 2010 Justice Department statistics, that “in murders involving a single black victim and a single offender, 90 percent of the time it is a black perpetrator who murders the black victim”? Who cares, as former Republican Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia pointed out in a 2010 article in Human Events, that blacks commit crimes against whites at an exceedingly higher rate? “According to the FBI’s latest National Crime Victimization Survey,” Goode wrote, “blacks were over 50 times more likely to commit a crime against whites than vice versa.”

It is the real-life fear and grief behind such