When you are the parent of a child (or in my case children) who sufferers from substance use disorder- you seem to clean their rooms on a variety of occasions. It starts when they are small, you tuck them in at night, careful to dodge the stray lego, lest you cry out in pain from …
There is nothing sadder than cleaning your kids room … Read More »
I first heard this term a few years ago. From other grieving parents, probably on one of the grief sites, I frequent- maybe GRASP. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter where I heard it, it matters to me that it gave me comfort, I like the idea of Reese getting his “Angel Wings”. I like the …
04/27/17 This should have been one of the best days of TINHIH’s existence. Just over 1 year ago, TINHIH announced the possibility of a new offensive tactic to combat the opioid epidemic. With much work, awesome allies, and passion- this particular idea, a Recovery High School, passed a tremendous hurdle- and I should have been …
My life was forever changed on 07/21/11. My 19 yr old heroin-addicted son had moved back home 3 days previously. At the time he was 7 months clean from daily heroin use. We were hopeful, he had started to resemble the son I knew before he started abusing heroin. I did not know of the …
