Mum tells the tale of tragic son’s fatal drug addiction
A mother with Paisley roots whose son died of a heroin overdose is set to reach an international audience with the book she co-wrote about her experience.
As revealed in the Paisley Daily Express, Julie Rose’s son Scott died at the age of just 28, having been in the grip of the drug for years.
And it was in her book Tenacity that she told how her family’s story started in Paisley.
Julie – whose family have connections with the town going back to the early 20th century–tells the story of her son Scott and his childhood friend Stephen Cowell as they become addicted to drugs and their families’ ultimately forlorn attempt to save them.
Julie united with Stephen’s sisters Michelle and Sarah Cowell to tell their stories, with the two younger women writing from their late mother Marilyn’s perspective.
And the book is now set to be published in the USA and Canada as part of a five-year deal with a publisher Guernica.
“The book is an education tool as it offers so much drug information that you wouldn’t necessarily know if you hadn’t experienced this terrible turmoil personally,” Julie said.
“We feel that if it was used as standard reading in schools from the age of 13, it could act as a deterrent to many young and impressionable adolescents.”
The book is self-published on Amazon and it can be found there by searching for ‘Tenacity’.