Stigma Added Hurdle for Parents of Addicted Kids
Spring Lake residents discuss challenges of finding the right help for their son.
Their son had stolen from them. Lied to them. Made them pariah's in their community. But John and Linda, whose last name was withheld for privacy, still loved their 19-year-old son, and they traveled from Spring Lake to be his advocate once again. Sitting in the gym Tuesday at Daytop Prep School, a Mendham non-profit substance abuse treatment organization, John and Linda testified to the Task Force on Heroin and Other Opiate Use Amongst New Jersey's Youth and Young Adults with details of their plight, and the hope that their experience could help make a change statewide. Their testimony was first before the panel, who will be crafting a report of their findings for Gov. Chris Christie and the legislature on how to address the epidemic of …
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KC
11:34 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
KC KG-I am going through this right now to. My daughter has lost everything to addiction and physical abuse by a boyfriend. He destroyed her mentally to. She was set to graduate college this year and he made her quit school. I have cried almost everyday for 5 months now since I found out she was with him and using. She went to rehab on her own in another state and got away from him. She was doing… more ›