Save the Teens: Preventing suicide, depression and addiction is a non-fiction book written by a mother who lost her 18 year-old son to suicide in 2005, but it is not a memoir. The author researched all the topics that made her wonder why her only child would perform such a horrendous act; such as teen depression, mood disorders, methamphetamine, addictions, and suicide. After a year of research, she realized she had enough information for a book and wanted to share it with other parents in hopes of saving their teens from a possible suicide. The book opens with the day the author's son ended his life. The book is set up differently in that the left pages contain the author's son's writing and artwork as well memoir as it pertains to the current chapter which is the research located on the right hand pages. The writings and artwork provide examples of a teen's depression. - from Amzon