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.
answers, hope and a long drive
It was clear that staying in the same city where his friends and triggers were wasn’t setting John up for success so we’d been frantically searching for an out-of-the-area housing solution that would allow him to continue healing physically but to also work on a new, sober lifestyle.