Famous podcast The Addicted Mind recently interviewed our author Mary Burns for her autobiography Saving Eric. The interview was published on their website on Friday, December 4th, 2020. Burns discusses the subject matter of her memoir as it relates to the stigma of addiction as a whole; the feature claims that “Since our understanding of addiction has moved from a moral issue to a genuine pathology, our attitudes have changed. But treatment has not kept up. Mary and Duane talk toward the end about how the protocol for addiction treatment needs serious reform to actually help the people that need attentive care. They need an intensive support network to really get them through it.” Listen to the complete interview here.  Saving Eric is a mother’s struggle trying to save her son from mental and physical illness. The drug addiction of her son turned her life upside down but her love for him never faded away and she tried to save him from his inner demons till the very end. Grab this heart-wrenching book here.  Mary Burns is a mother of three, a teacher, and an addiction advocate. Through her struggles, she managed to change the stigma that surrounded addiction. She was honored as an Advocacy Leader in 2017 by the New Jersey chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.