{"id":8627,"date":"2020-02-04T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/04\/steve-grant-80-writes-book-about-substance-abuse-addiction\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:51","slug":"steve-grant-80-writes-book-about-substance-abuse-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/steve-grant-80-writes-book-about-substance-abuse-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Grant &#8217;80 writes book about substance abuse, addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_43355\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43355 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/steve-grant-dont-forget-me-book-cover-e1580829135927.jpg\" alt=\"steve grant\" width=\"259\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 259px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 259\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant is a 1980 political science graduate.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University alumnus Steve M. Grant &#8217;80 shares the tragic story of how drug use impacted his family in a newly released book, &#8220;Don\u2019t Forget Me: A Lifeline of Hope for Those Touched by Substance Abuse and Addiction.&#8221; Grant, who was part of the Furman Paladin baseball team and majored in political science, lost both sons to drug overdose. With the book, he hopes to offer guidance and encouragement to parents and help them detect early\u00a0 warning signs of addiction. Published Feb. 4, 2020, the book was featured in a July, 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/community\/steve-grant-shares-tragic-hope-filled-true-story-in-book-dont-forget-me\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a> pre-release article. <a href=\"https:\/\/whosonthemove.com\/newly-released-book-by-greenvilles-steve-m-grant-helps-families-heal-from-substance-abuse-addiction-and-overdose\/\">UpstateBizSC<\/a> also covered the book&#8217;s debut.<\/p>\n<p>See related story <a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2016\/11\/15\/a-legacy-of-hope\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumnus Steve M. Grant &#8217;80 shares the tragic story of how drug use impacted his family in a newly released book, &#8220;Don\u2019t Forget Me: A Lifeline of Hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":18335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}