Don't Let Your Loved One's Addiction Destroy You
Sara Carter Show
M3 Media
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Many families are navigating this nightmare, and Sara's is no different. Maybe you know this agony too. Today, Sara welcomes Marguerite Connelly, the mother of two kids who have struggled with drug abuse. Her journey through her son's ongoing addiction is the focus of her new book, "Addicted to the Addicted: A Mother's Tale of Going from Heartbreak to Hopeful."
In this raw and honest conversation, Connelly tells Sara how she learned not to let her own life get consumed by her son's addiction, how she changed her interactions with her son in helpful ways, and the other ways in which parents and other family members can stay strong.
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Time Stamps:
0:05 I have been affected by addiction
2:20 Shocking stats
4:10 My guest today
7:14 Marguerite Connelly joins the Sara Carter Show
8:40 This has touched everyone
10:18 Marguerite’s son
14:07 The family is fighting too
14:50 Shocking stats
15:36 Treatment centers in Ohio
16:37 Facing this as a mother
22:02 Control in troubled waters
23:43 Manipulation
27:59 The cause of the crisis
31:55 We need repercussions
37:13 Parents don't like talking about this
40:33 Interview close
42:37 Show Close
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever been affected by the drug epidemic? |
| 0:07.4 | I'm sure so many of you that are listening right now have either been affected by some |
| 0:11.8 | type of addiction in your family, friends, yourself. |
| 0:17.8 | It is a crisis across the United States of America and it is tragic. |
| 0:23.4 | I would say global crisis, but I'm focusing right now on our own country where among Americans |
| 0:29.4 | aged 12 years and older, there are 37,300 and 9,000 addicts. |
| 0:39.8 | And that's on the low scale, guys, because that's just what we know from the National Center |
| 0:46.6 | for Drug Abuse statistics and it's always under the actual numbers. |
| 0:52.2 | And this was from 2020. |
| 0:54.0 | And just last year we suffered losses that are immeasurable. |
| 0:59.4 | When you think about it, over 130,000 due to the opioid fentanyl epidemic in our nation |
| 1:06.8 | and fentanyl poisoning, which doesn't necessarily equate and doesn't equate at all actually |
| 1:12.2 | with addiction, but people that thought they were taking a percussette or an oxycodone |
| 1:19.9 | or an adorol and then just died. |
| 1:22.9 | But it's the addiction that I want to talk to you about today and I just want you to listen |
| 1:27.5 | to these and I have a very, very special guest. |
| 1:30.7 | A mother whose son is suffering through addiction and boy does she have some amazing advice, |
| 1:39.2 | guidelines and hope for those of us. |
| 1:43.8 | And yes, even in my own family, we are dealing with that. |
| 1:48.2 | We are dealing with addiction, finding ways of coping and living a different life |
| 1:57.2 | than the one that you think you have to live when it comes to the addict. |
| 2:01.2 | This is finding a way to save yourself, yes, and being able to do what's best for the |
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