Living In The Amber Cloud Summary

This first source looks at the life of a heroin addict, Richard Markham, over the course of several years. It is from an article that written by his doctor Jefferson Singer with permission from Richard. They first met in a rehab facility that Richard was a resident of several different times. It sets up his life telling about the problem his parents had and these events that led to his drug addiction. He like so many others did not start with the hard stuff he had to work his way up to it finally landing on heroin which he described as being an amber cloud. Throughout this story Richard gets clean and falls off the wagon; he spends time in jail; he finds himself with money and flat broke. It examines all the rules that he broke as a recovering addict repeatable. Through all of it, Jefferson tries to be someone that

Richard can turn to.
Singer, J.

A. (2013). Living in the amber cloud: A life story analysis of a heroin addict. Qualitative Psychology, S, 33-48.

This letter from the editor starts off with a Saturday Night Live (SNL) skit that the editor had heard about and looked up. The skit is making light of being a heroin addict which the editor who is also a nurse finds in poor taste and disrespectful. She is urging her fellow nurses to look at the heroin epidemic that is within our nation and seek knowledge to help them cope with not only addicts but also the families of addicts. She goes on to list typical predictors of heroin use and addiction.

Rollins, J. (2016). From the Editor. Heroin Addiction: Not a Laughing Matter. Pediatric Nursing, 42(3), 109-11.

In this study, they took some normal families and compared them to families that have drug addiction in it somewhere. The hypothesis and prove that the family relationship in families with addicts contains low concentration, acceptance, and high rejection avoidance.

Sharma, R. (2016). Role of Family relationship in child rearing of drug addiction afflicted vs normal families. Indian Journal Of Health & Wellbeing, 7(8),

807-809.

What I mainly took from this study is how traumatic experiences can trigger drug use. Also, how the use of heroin can affect a child and their development.
Pomini, V. G. (2014). Rejection Attitudes, Poor Parental Bonding, and Stressful Life Events in Heroin Addicts' Families. Substance Use & Misuse, 49(14), 1867-1877.