337: How to Help Your Addicted Child With Brenda Zane
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Brenda Zane started Hopestream community after years of trying to save her son from desperate drug addiction. She discusses the resources parents need when they have a child struggling with addiction and provides hope when those parents feel like they are the only ones going through this.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning |
| 0:19.1 | that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.5 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome back to the Soberfall podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm delighted to have Brenda Zane join me today. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi, Brenda. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello. |
| 0:35.9 | Brenda is the co-founder of the Hope Stream community. Why don't you tell me |
| 0:41.7 | what the Hope Stream community is and what it does? I would love to. It's really the place that I |
| 0:48.7 | needed when I had a child who was struggling with substance use, all kinds of legal issues that go along |
| 0:55.7 | with that. |
| 0:56.4 | As you know, it's never just one thing. |
| 0:59.3 | And as a parent of an adolescent at the time, I didn't have any help. |
| 1:05.3 | I didn't have a program. |
| 1:07.2 | It was one of those things. |
| 1:08.4 | It was kind of like the Wild West. |
| 1:10.0 | And this was only 10 years ago, |
| 1:11.5 | so it wasn't that long ago. And I got through the experience with him, fortunately, and I just |
| 1:20.1 | really felt drawn to create something that would help the parents of the 11 million young people. |
| 1:28.2 | Just in the U.S., there's 11 million kids between the age of 12 and 24 |
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