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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd heard about rehab, where you send people with drug problems, but I soon learned that there's no standard definition of it; instead it's a generic word for a wide variety of treatments, including some that are outrageous. Past-life therapy? Exorcism?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose a rehab center for Nic that was recommended by a friend who had sent her son there. The program lasted 28 days, after which he relapsed. Over the next six years, he was admitted to six residential treatment programs and four outpatient programs. He would do better for a while, but then relapse. Each relapse was crushing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twelve-step programs require people to accept their powerlessness and turn their lives over to God or another higher power. Many adolescents question religion, and in general teenagers aren't going to turn their lives over to anyone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few adults realize what a huge force video games have become in children's lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids love the 'Mario Brothers' games, which are whimsical, inventive and lots of fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the tears were just flowing down his cheeks, at the terrible injustice that was being described in that book and the bravery of fighting against it.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but not the emotions.
- Prevent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.
- Brokenhearted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like so many of us, I'm brokenhearted about the death of the remarkably talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed by treatments followed by more relapses. It's not uncommon for addicts to go through a dozen treatment programs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, my parents didn't know anything about drugs. They didn't even drink.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.
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- Nov 07, 2020