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When Addiction Takes Over: Grieving Your Living Child and Normal Life with Brenda Zane

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When Addiction Takes Over: Grieving Your Living Child and Normal Life with Brenda Zane

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When your child is in active addiction, you experience a type of grief that feels impossible to put into words. It’s not the grief of losing someone to death, but something equally painful and far more complex – mourning someone who is physically present but emotionally unreachable. The Unique Torture of Living with Active Addiction

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Ten Hard Truths You Need to Know if Your Teen is Experimenting With Drugs or Alcohol with Brenda Zane

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Ten Hard Truths You Need to Know if Your Teen is Experimenting With Drugs or Alcohol with Brenda Zane

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When you first discover or suspect your teen is experimenting with drugs or alcohol, it’s natural to want to look away. As one parent who’s been through this journey shares, sometimes it feels easier in the short term to bury your head in the sand and hope the problem disappears on its own. But today’s

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Exploring Racial Disparities in Addiction Awareness, Education and Treatment with Brenda Zane

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Exploring Racial Disparities in Addiction Awareness, Education and Treatment with Brenda Zane

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Substance use disorder affects families across all racial and ethnic backgrounds, but the experience of addiction—and access to treatment—varies dramatically depending on race. This episode tackles an uncomfortable truth: despite having lower rates of substance use disorder than some other populations, Black communities face systemic barriers that create devastating outcomes. Understanding Substance Use Disorder Rates

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You Can’t Love Your Child Out of Addiction with Megan Megale of American Boy

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You Can’t Love Your Child Out of Addiction with Megan Megale of American Boy

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When Megan Megale’s son Matt began struggling with heroin addiction, she believed with all her heart that her love could save him. Like so many parents facing a child’s substance misuse, she thought the strength of their family bond, combined with her determination and resources, would be enough to pull him through. Matt went through

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When Your Sibling Has Substance Use Issues; Finding Sanity And Practicing Self-Care, with Tina Jayes

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When Your Sibling Has Substance Use Issues; Finding Sanity And Practicing Self-Care, with Tina Jayes

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When addiction enters a family, siblings often become the hidden casualties—watching, worrying, and carrying burdens that aren’t discussed. Tina Jayes knows this reality intimately, having grown up as the youngest of five children with an alcoholic mother in the San Fernando Valley during the 1960s. Her brother was charismatic and popular, but at 17, a

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The Story Behind the Podcast; A Teen’s Addiction, Four Rehabs, Two Overdoses and Hope

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The Story Behind the Podcast; A Teen’s Addiction, Four Rehabs, Two Overdoses and Hope

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