As the director of the Gateway Family Counselling Centre in Melbourne, he’s devoted his intellectual and altruistic gifts, and his capacity for hard work and compassion, to battling the scourge of drug addiction.

This book cannot be expected to solve the addiction epidemic sweeping across Australia, and it doesn't claim to. But it is well worth reading, and worth pondering.

Aron’s work is about keeping addicts alive long enough to be given the opportunity to redraw their life maps. Through various stories, anecdotes and two private journals of addicts whom he has worked with over many years, he’s allowed the reader into the addict’s mind, heart and soul.

This is a sincerely decent and practical book. Not a literary masterpiece. Not a stunning success of penetrating analysis, either, though Aron earns points for his endeavours. Believe is simply a book that should be read by addicts and their families and friends. - Fontaine