An Addict In Our Son’s Bedroom

He relapsed, does that mean he failed? HELL YES, over and over the same old crap!!! Won't he ever GET IT???!!! Expressed by a father of ...

Now before all you female readers jump straight from the title to the comment section to let me have it in a very unladylike fashion you mus...

My Mental Marathon In all of my 19 years of living I don’t think I have ever spent time just me and my sister. That’s just not the kin...

What's it like being the parent of an addict? I'm not talking about the day to day experience with a crisis and drama around every c...

A Change of Fate Last night I woke up in the middle of the night with a couple tears running down my cheeks as if trying to escape my ...

This blog has been written from the perspective of parents of an addict. As we all know parents aren't the only loved ones affected by a...

Below is a post from Clint's mother. She is a long time friend and her son died last Sunday from a heroin overdose. Good Friday mornin...

I stumbled across your blog and wanted to say THANK YOU for having this as a sounding board for parents, and loved ones of addicts.   It cer...

In the past I have opened my blog to guest posts. If you are a parent, brother, sister, child or loved one of an addict and want to write ab...

Today at 1:58pm we received a call from a long time dear friend. She told us her son had been found dead this morning from a heroin overdose...

57 years young today. At least thats how I feel, everyone else sees me as a old fat gray headed guy. My birthday wishes have all come true...

Merry Christmas to All. We had family over for two days. Needless to say it was exhausting and right now I am in some kind of recovery but...

Friday evening Alex ask Kristy to be his wife. Darlene and I had a hand in it but it was his plan all the way. Our part was minimal, we ...

The Partnership at Drugfree.org has published another one of my essays. Many of you may remember it as my interpretation on detaching with l...

In a few days it will be Christmas. I know many that read this blog may not celebrate Christmas. I am using this holiday for my point but mo...

About a week ago I was contacted by Santa Claus. He told me about a secret program he has to condition himself and the reindeer for the big ...

The Partnership at Drugfree.org has posted another one of my essays. It is a post I put here on this blog over one year ago. It's about ...

As the parent of an addict we always looked at holiday and family celebrations with nervous fear. What were we in for this time? Nothing eve...

MyAddiction.com has posted part 2 of the interview I did with them. You can find it here: My Son Was An Addict, Part 2 I was to speak to ...

Today is the day designated to give thanks for all people and those things in our lives we are grateful for in our lives. I wrote about my l...