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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Coping With Your Drug-Addicted Child

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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I want to open today's Deep Dive podcast on dealing with drug-addicted children with this incredible call I took years ago from a mom named Dee ... Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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I want to open up today's Deep Dive Podcast on dealing with drug addicted children with I D's story is the opposite of the calls I typically get from parents of addicts because her son

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did a complete turnaround. Oh yeah. He got clean, got off the streets, went to school, was about to start a new career.

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Her testimony about what finally helped her boy change

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was quite powerful. D, welcome to the program.

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Hi, Dr. Laura.

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Hi, what's up?

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What's up?

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What's up? What's up? Hi. I was telling your screener that I got in on the end of a call and all I heard was go to

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Al-Anon, go to Al-Anon, go to Al-Anon.

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And I wanted to tell you that it took me many many years to take your advice on that specific subject.

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Everything else you said, I swore by it, so when it came to cutting my child off, I didn't

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listen to you.

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And one day I was listening and I said that's it that's the last thing that I

1:57.6

have to try I've tried everything else and all I've done was aid and abet this addiction and I cut him off and I cut

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