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The Getting Them Sober Foundation

Toby Rice Drews was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; grew up in an alcoholic home, where there was major violence, drinking, gambling addiction, and poverty. Her father was the Congressional Aide and ghost-writer for John Phillip Hill, a Republican Congressman, in Baltimore, Maryland, for 14 years. Toby lost her father when she was 12 years old, to his late-stage alcoholism. Her sister, also a published author, wrote books on aging and grief issues. Toby, the youngest child in her family (15 years younger than her oldest sister), was never told by her mother that her father had been a writer and Congressional Aide. She learned about her father's work from others. Her mother always just referred to him as "that bum, that drunk''. Toby does not remember her father ever being sober. But she still misses him. She understands her mother's anger that stayed with her until she died... but Toby wanted to help others who were married to alcoholics, to be able to find answers to this terrible family-destroying affliction. The seed was in her to do this----- at the age of 12, right after her father died, Toby won a national award for her short story about a little girl whose father was an alcoholic, from the Women's Christian Temperance Union. After graduate school at Johns Hopkins University, she worked as a fashions copywriter; taught emotionally-disturbed children and ran a crisis room for Baltimore City Schools; and finally found what she was meant to do----- wrote articles on alcoholism for national magazines, and in the 1970's -- developed and taught courses in colleges in Maryland, on alcoholism and the family. No one was talking about alcoholism then----- and her first book--- "Getting Them Sober, volume one" (endorsed by 'dear Abby', Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and Melody Beattie)-- exploded in word-of-mouth million-plus sales around the world. Chock full of hundreds of practical and effective suggestions for sobriety and recovery, it is still the most recommended book for the family of the alcoholic by therapists and clergy, in the U.S. More books followed----- "Getting Them Sober, volume 2'' is all about family healing.... "Getting Them Sober, volume three'' has more urgent help, plus half the book details the 350 secondary diseases/disorders that result from alcoholism... "Getting Them Sober, volume 4'' has tremendous help for those who are divorcing or separating from an alcoholic---- with all the hidden issues that one cannot anticipate, but happen. "Getting Your Children Sober'' is the most gentle and helpful book for parents of children of all ages who have addiction..... "S*x and the Sober Alcoholic'' is for anyone involved with an alcoholic, sober or not..... "Get Rid of Anxiety and Stress'' with dozens of practical, do-able, and immediate ideas for comfort ..... "Answering the Crazymaking'' will bring peace to all the beneath-the-surface issues that we face, having lived with alcoholism and the damage its done to us. Currently, Toby trains counselors throughout the U.S. and Canada ---- and is available for consultations with families and alcoholics by telephone. She can be reached at 410-243-8352 or 443-756-9352 in Baltimore, Maryland.