When a mother discovers that her adult child is trapped in opioid addiction, her instinct is to do whatever it takes to save him, even when her efforts begin to destroy her own health, peace, and sense of safety.

In The Addicted Prodigal: A Mother’s Prayers for Her Child, the author shares a mother's deeply personal journey through fear, desperation, enabling, spiritual warfare, and the painful process of surrendering your child to God. While fighting to survive severe COVID 19 double lung pneumonia, and lasting health complications, she discovers that her twenty two year old son has become addicted to heroin and counterfeit pills containing unknown and potentially deadly substances.

What follows is a heartbreaking cycle of failed rehabilitation, dangerous attempts to manage his withdrawal at home, frightening encounters on the streets, emotional turmoil, and terrifying moments when death seems only one breath away. Believing that a loving mother should never give up, she tries to control every part of her adult son’s recovery. In time, she begins to understand that love does not require her to carry a burden that God never asked her to carry.

Through honest testimony and prayers written during some of the mother's darkest moments, the author reveals the emotional and spiritual toll that addiction takes not only on the person using drugs, but also on the parent who loves them. The story explores the difference between helping and enabling, the danger of relying only on human strength, and the faith required to place an addicted child completely into God’s hands.

Raw, vulnerable, and grounded in Christian faith, The Addicted Prodigal is written for every parent who has cried through the night, searched desperately for answers, questioned every decision, and wondered whether their child would ever return home. This book also contains a collection of the heartfelt prayers she prayed to God throughout those painful years.

This is more than a story about addiction. It is a mother’s testimony of learning that she could not be her son’s savior. True surrender did not mean abandoning him. It meant trusting the One who loved him even more than she did.