Dear Friend,

Parents, families and their loved ones face numerous roadblocks on the way to and through recovery. These obstacles, however, don’t have to be there or at least don’t have to be insurmountable.

In the next episode of our year-long video series, our host GloZell chats with experts and advocates with lived experience about attitudes and policies such as stigma, fraudulent treatment practices, and inadequate family support that make the path to recovery nearly impassable.  

“As a mother, my son started struggling when he was 15 and when I started looking for treatment options, every time I picked up the phone, it was an organization asking me to mortgage my house or telling me that I had to have good insurance,” said Tonia Ahern, a family advocate and parent coach at the Partnership. “If I didn’t have the cash to put him into treatment, they didn’t really want to have anything to do with him.” 

You can watch this episode and previous episodes here on drugfree.org. This video series will feature a variety of topics, voices and stories all year long.

For more information on removing barriers to recovery visit these Partnership to End Addiction resources below:

• How to Navigate the Drug & Alcohol Treatment System
• The Obama Administration's Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli, discusses the pervasiveness of stigma
• Advocate for Change - help us raise awareness, educate others and change policies

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