In the Grip
A child’s addiction. A family’s journey.
My hope is that telling this part of our story will open a conversation with someone who needs it. My words here are real, written through pain but told so we can start to unshackle ourselves from the stigma of addiction.
The most important thing to know is you're not on this path alone. There are thousands of people exactly where you are and if we put our voices together we can help each other through.
starting again
None of the resources we’d contacted seemed to make sense for John so the plan was he’d be coming home with me where he’d continue to recover and do outpatient physical therapy three days per week. I was terrified of this arrangement but his dad had to get back to work in California and there were no other options.