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How to Help Your Kid Take a 30 Day Break From Marijuana, with Fred Muench

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How to Help Your Kid Take a 30 Day Break From Marijuana, with Fred Muench
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When your child is using marijuana daily, the idea of asking them to quit forever can feel both necessary and impossible. But what if there was a different approach—one that’s harder for them to argue against and actually creates space for real change? Fred Muench, CEO of Clear30 and former president of Partnership to End

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How Substances Hijack Motivation and Meaning in Young Brains, with Dr. Judith Grisel

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How Substances Hijack Motivation and Meaning in Young Brains, with Dr. Judith Grisel
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Dr. Judith Grisel has spent decades studying the neuroscience of addiction and has lived through her own journey of recovery for 38 and a half years. Her unique perspective combines rigorous scientific understanding with the raw truth of someone who started using at age 12, became homeless, and eventually found her way to treatment at

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Lost in the Haze: A Primer on The Perfect Storm of Teens, ADHD, and Marijuana

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Lost in the Haze: A Primer on The Perfect Storm of Teens, ADHD, and Marijuana
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When Dr. Mariely Hernandez talks about ADHD, she quickly corrects a common misconception. “It’s called attention deficit, but it’s really a dysregulation of your attentional faculties. And what that means is that, you know, one, it’s like an interest based disorder.” This reframing helps parents understand why their child can focus intensely on video games

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Johnny’s Ambassadors: How One Mother’s Loss Started a Youth Marijuana Awareness Movement, With Laura Stack

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Johnny’s Ambassadors: How One Mother’s Loss Started a Youth Marijuana Awareness Movement, With Laura Stack
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When Laura Stack’s son Johnny told her at age 14 that he’d tried marijuana at a party, she warned him it would destroy his brilliant brain. Five years later, three days before his death, Johnny told his mother she had been right. ‘Mom, I just I want you to know that you were right. And

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The High Cost of High-Potency Marijuana For Adolescents, with Dr. Libby Stuyt

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The High Cost of High-Potency Marijuana For Adolescents, with Dr. Libby Stuyt
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If you think marijuana today is the same as what was around when you were younger, you’re in for a sobering reality check. Dr. Libby Stuyt, a board certified addiction psychiatrist who has worked in the addiction and behavioral health field since 1990, shares critical information every parent needs to understand about how dramatically marijuana

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Parenting in the Real World: 5 Moms Share The Key Lessons Learned From Parenting Kids Who Are Misusing Drugs & Alcohol

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Parenting in the Real World: 5 Moms Share The Key Lessons Learned From Parenting Kids Who Are Misusing Drugs & Alcohol
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When your child is misusing drugs or alcohol, the path forward can feel uncertain and isolating. Five mothers—Cheryl, Jill, Elizabeth, Lynn, and Sarah—gathered to share the hard-won lessons they’ve learned while parenting children through substance misuse and addiction. Their stories span wilderness therapy, residential treatment, fentanyl poisoning, overdose, and the ongoing challenge of supporting children

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Coaching Episode: How To Cope And Find Contentment With A Son Home From Treatment, Unmotivated, Anti-Everything, And Disconnected From The Family

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Coaching Episode: How To Cope And Find Contentment With A Son Home From Treatment, Unmotivated, Anti-Everything, And Disconnected From The Family
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When a child returns home from residential treatment, parents often hope for reconnection and progress. But what happens when your son comes home unmotivated, anti-everything, and emotionally disconnected from the family? This coaching episode explores one mother’s journey through exactly this challenge. The Journey: From Crisis to Treatment to Home Jane’s story began two years

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Reframing the ADHD Diagnosis and Understanding Why People Self-Medicate with Marijuana, with Dr. Ned Hallowell

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Reframing the ADHD Diagnosis and Understanding Why People Self-Medicate with Marijuana, with Dr. Ned Hallowell
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When Dr. Ned Hallowell discovered he had ADHD during a 1981 lecture in his fellowship year, it changed everything about how he understood the condition. Rather than viewing it through the traditional lens of deficit and disability, he began learning from his patients and his own experience that ADHD was fundamentally misunderstood. Understanding ADHD as

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Coaching Episode #3: Finding Points of Control When Life Feels Chaotic; Post-Residential Struggle, Marijuana Use, Mental Health Concerns And A Very Tired Mom

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Coaching Episode #3: Finding Points of Control When Life Feels Chaotic; Post-Residential Struggle, Marijuana Use, Mental Health Concerns And A Very Tired Mom
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When your child returns from residential treatment only to relapse within months, the sense of failure and chaos can be overwhelming. For Mandy, a mother of three boys who works three-quarter time for the city in administration, this reality hit hard after spending $150,000 on a year of therapeutic boarding school for her 15-year-old son.

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Golden Nuggets from 2021: The Best of The Episodes You Need To Hear if Your Child Struggles With Substance Use or Addiction

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Golden Nuggets from 2021: The Best of The Episodes You Need To Hear if Your Child Struggles With Substance Use or Addiction
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When your teen or young adult is misusing drugs or alcohol, knowing where to turn for reliable information and support can feel overwhelming. This compilation episode brings together the most valuable insights from 2021’s Hopestream podcast conversations—essential listening for any parent navigating this difficult journey. Why These 2021 Episodes Matter The episodes featured in this

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