I can’t believe this made it to print.

It feels disrespectful to continue listening. The book is a mixture between an attempt to describe a child’s diary and the opinions of two parents who are doling out the most damaging drug addiction ‘advice’ I’ve ever heard.
They seem to think that by declaring Marijuana a ‘gateway drug’ (it is not) and insisting on drug testing for all 14 year olds (yep, sounds likely) they have come up with a cure to the opioid crisis. Could someone please point out to these people that the USA is not the only country in the world, but it is the only one with an opioid crisis. Said crisis is not caused or exacerbated by your GP not giving you yet more drugs to keep in the kitchen cupboard to counteract an overdose; it’s caused by your entire country’s healthcare system thriving off your addictions.. I assure you, if your GP had a PCT budget he would not be wasting it on benzos and opiates for spoilt teenagers, people with medical insurance and the like.
The book reads like biased fiction. It feels dishonest and self congratulatory. I haven’t seen the book but I got to hear how drug addiction is to blame for how this poor child’s handwriting changed. If this were a suicide note, questions would be asked. I can’t bring myself to continue to listen to this poor dead child’s private diary used by a mother who thinks that is an appropriate opportunity to talk about bedding Trump. She proudly boasts of sending her child to fat camp then seems surprised that her kid was unhappy. We are also supposed to pity them for their wealth, and how she was apparently bullied for being rich at school. Which imaginary, dystopian school is this?
So, I’ve listened to less than an hour. It’s not the narrator’s fault but it’s the wrong format to be converted to audiobook and as I said, feels so disrespectful and predatory upon their own daughter’s pain and like a ludicrous, uneducated or wantonly ignorant Baby Boomer styler rant about how all drugs are bad (mkay). Nonsense. There are countries where drugs have been decriminalised and their babies aren’t smack heads. This is not a judgement on addiction nor addicts, but a gobsmacked cry to open your eyes.
I realise a lot of what is said must come from a place of grief but that’s no excuse to endanger other children by pushing this erroneous agenda.

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