“In Save My Son, Maralys Wills and Sheriff Michael S. Carona team up to provide an unvarnished view of drug addiction and its destructive impact on a family. Wills, a writer and a member of a prominent family in Santa Ana, California, describes how her son became addicted to drugs and the impact it had on the family. The contribution by Carona...to this effort is his description of his mother's alcoholism and subsequent death and his experiences with drug involved offenders during his law enforcement career.

“The first part of the book is fairly depressing...the second part...is more encouraging and offers some hope, in that it provides insights into the problem of drug abuse and offers some solutions in dealing with the drug involved family member. Successful strategies explored by the authors include therapeutic communities, specific correctional interventions, the drug court experience, community involvement, and re-entry programs.”