Jeffrey's Journey: Healing a Child's Violent Rages

By LaRayne Jeffries and Debbie Jeffries

Book Overview

Jeffreys Journey is a remarkable success story about a loving familys refusal to give up on a deeply troubled child. Written by his mother and grandmother, the book chronicles the struggle of a very young boy diagnosed with severe behavioral problems, including compulsive and oppositional defiance disorders. By age seven, Jeffrey had seen multiple doctors and been prescribed over a dozen prescription medications to control his violent rages but nothing had helped. Then state officials gave Jeffreys mother an ultimatum: find something to manage your son or lose him to institutional lock-down. Extensive research convinced this conservative, Christian mother that medical marijuana could be her sons last hope. Working with a courageous pediatrician and a patients cooperative, she discovered that cannabis calmed her son, allowing him to function so well that he was able to attend school and enjoy friends. Jeffreys Journey details the success of Jeffreys treatment, Debbies court battle defending her sons right to unconventional medicine and the threat to Jeffreys on-going care by federal raids on Californias medical marijuana dispensaries. Includes material from the pediatrician who supervised Jeffreys marijuana therapy, letters from other struggling parents who heard about Jeffreys story on 48 Hours, and a resource section.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932551661
• ISBN13: 9780932551665
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Quick American Archives
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.6"