Mary Forsberg Weiland lives with her two children in Los Angeles, where she is studying for her certification in drug and alcohol counseling, with a focus on co-occurring disorders. This is her first book.A former editor at Esquire , Lear's , and Good Housekeeping magazines, Larkin Warren was a contributing writer to Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop? , the companion book to HBO's documentary of the same name, and collaborated with Professor Elyn R. Saks on Saks's bestselling memoir, The Center Cannot Hold , which Time magazine named one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007.