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  • A Mother's Fight to Get Her Son off Drugs

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    11/14/06, Capessa

    When drugs and alcohol nearly killed Susan's teenage son, she had no choice but to find the strength to take him to rehab, a decision that changed his life and her own.

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  • Addicted to Love: Parenting through a Drug Problem

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    02/14/07, Capessa

    The line between nurturing and enabling is a blurry one, especially for parents of drug-addicted children. Isabell found a way to support her son without feeding his habit by cutting him off from everything but love.

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  • Turning My Mother's Drug Problem into Something Positive

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    02/14/07, Capessa

    Food banks, neglect, abandonment, drug abuse – those are just of few of Nicolette's childhood memories. But instead of following her parents' lead, Nicolette used those experiences to launch life on her own terms.

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  • My Daugther is Addicted To Pain Pills

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    03/06/07, Capessa

    Lynn, a former police officer, has a lifetime of experience with drug dealers and drug abusers. But when her own daughter fell into an addiction justified by prescriptions, the devastating effects of drugs really hit home.

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