Share your experiences!

Relatives to a people with alcohol- and drug abuse addiction are often very reluctant in sharing their experiences and thoughts. However, there are people all around us who suffer from the same daily struggle, who share the same experiences as you do. Take the courage to talk to each other! Do not shut everything inside, sharing will help unloading your burden. By exchanging thoughts, feelings and experiences you will strengthen each other.  

Work together as one, and become stronger!

How parents can prevent addiction

I found a cheat sheet with instructions for parents about how to prevent and detect addiction.


Here is a summary of the important bits:
*Acquire knowledge about drugs and what impact they have
*Communicate with other parents to your kid's friends
*Make plans with other parents about driving the kids to and from parties
*Stay awake when your kid comes home late
*Demand to know where and with who they spent time on the evenings
*Don't accept that your teenager drinks alcohol and never give them any at home
*Spend time with your kid, do things together and develop interests to have in common
*Give them support and encouragement and show them that you love them for who they are.
*Trust you intuition!

Hopefully these tips will be helpful for you parents!
/Carina

Movie about alcoholism!

A fantastic movie about alcohol problems and how it affects the family is "When a man loves a woman" with Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia. If you haven't seen it, do that!
(Keep tissues close by...)

You can see a snippet here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa2g551rzWI&feature=related

Write in the comments what you thought about the movie! :-)

/Carina

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