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There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

I'd heard about rehab, where you send people with drug problems, but I soon learned that there's no standard definition of it; instead it's a generic word for a wide variety of treatments, including some that are outrageous. Past-life therapy?...

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I chose a rehab center for Nic that was recommended by a friend who had sent her son there. The program lasted 28 days, after which he relapsed. Over the next six years, he was admitted to six residential treatment...

Twelve-step programs require people to accept their powerlessness and turn their lives over to God or another higher power. Many adolescents question religion, and in general teenagers aren't going to turn their lives over to anyone.

After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.

Few adults realize what a huge force video games have become in children's lives.

Kids love the 'Mario Brothers' games, which are whimsical, inventive and lots of fun.

I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the tears were just flowing down his cheeks, at the terrible injustice that was being described in that book and the bravery of...

That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but not the emotions.

I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.

Like so many of us, I'm brokenhearted about the death of the remarkably talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed by treatments followed by more relapses. It's not uncommon for addicts to go through a dozen treatment programs.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

I was ashamed. My son is a drug addict. What does this mean about me?

When I was a child, my parents didn't know anything about drugs. They didn't even drink.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.

Having been hit by drug addiction, knowing how many are hit by it and what a big problem it is in our neighborhoods and our culture, I feel a responsibility to do something. I can see what's wrong with the...

This idea that some kids have now in some communities that if they haven't filled out their college resumes by the time they're 12, they are going to fail in life, it's a lot of stress on kids.

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