The intensely personal story of one parent's struggle to cope with her teenage son's alcohol and drug addiction. Sharing the journey through the variety of institutions that make up our national attempt to address a burgeoning crisis often shaded by inadequacy and unanticipated ramifications. Heartbreaking chronicles an agonizing coming of age unfortunately relevant to parents and family members, educators, professionals, politicians and anyone touched by the rapidly growing field of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Addressing such correlating concerns as mental health treatment and the criminal justice system, Heartbreaking informs and empathizes as one parent travels a wrenching and treacherous road all too familiar in today's America.