If Only a Parent’s Love Could Cure Addiction

By the time your child has been through substance use disorder (SUD) treatment 18 times, love is no longer the issue. In fact, love—unchecked, unstructured, and desperate—can become part of the illness’s leverage. Addiction will exploit a parent’s love. It will lie, manipulate, steal, and, in some cases, kill. Every parental instinct to rescue, soothe, […]