Wake Up, Mom! is a heartbreaking story about a mother's emotional journey through her son's addictive years. She chronicles their family's life and its downward spiral after a supposedly helpful prescription drug meant to aid her son's ADHD caused a nightmarish sequence of events that nearly destroyed him.

This tale of chaos portrays Mom's emotional seesaw as her son experiences disaster after disaster, candidly describing the pain and the challenges they both faced in an effort to overcome his addiction. Her son had a dream. Mom was determined to try and help him achieve that dream, but she couldn't do it on her own.