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http://www.jsonline.com/news/a-son-...-understand-b99337686z1-273345531.html?ipad=y
My metro newspaper ran this in 2-parts- and it's really poignant. The subtitle is "a battle to emerge from heroin's hell"
It's a detailed look inside look at a good family - a kid with two loving parents & many advantages - and how their lives got turned upside down by drug use. It tells their story from both the dad and son's perspective. When I read the title "succumbs" - I assumed that is was a sad ending- but it isn't. The son is now clean - after a long road to recovery - but he still has struggles. In fact, he is 24 but often has the maturity if a 16 year old.
We've talked so much about that in this forum- how our kids can get stuck at the maturity age they were when they started using.
Their story is like so many of our own in many ways- regardless of our difficult child's substance if choice. It's a good read
My metro newspaper ran this in 2-parts- and it's really poignant. The subtitle is "a battle to emerge from heroin's hell"
It's a detailed look inside look at a good family - a kid with two loving parents & many advantages - and how their lives got turned upside down by drug use. It tells their story from both the dad and son's perspective. When I read the title "succumbs" - I assumed that is was a sad ending- but it isn't. The son is now clean - after a long road to recovery - but he still has struggles. In fact, he is 24 but often has the maturity if a 16 year old.
We've talked so much about that in this forum- how our kids can get stuck at the maturity age they were when they started using.
Their story is like so many of our own in many ways- regardless of our difficult child's substance if choice. It's a good read