I Believe My Mom Is On Drugs

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🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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I Believe My Mom Is On Drugs: 17-year-old Aislynn asks for guidance after discovering her mother may be a drug addict. - Dr. Laura: "Sometimes PARENTS turn out to be the bad apples." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.7	Grandma, and is it Is it Aselin?
0:14.7	Yes.
0:15.9	Aselin, I said it right, hallelujah.
0:18.0	Welcome to the program.
0:19.4	Aselin, how old are you?
0:21.0	I'm 17.
0:23.0	And what can I help you with?
0:26.5	So, I am under suspicion that my mother, of 36, is using drugs.
0:34.5	And this is a recent find, but I am just wondering how to confront her and help her.
0:44.5	Okay.
0:46.5	Let's do the second one first.
0:48.5	You can't help an addict.
0:52.5	Sorry.
0:53.5	Okay.
0:54.5	There are plenty of organizations for the family and friends of addicts where you go and
1:03.8	get support and understanding and realize not a damn thing you can do.
1:08.8	The person who's an addict must make that decision themselves and they never make it under pressure
1:13.4	or begging for anybody else.
1:16.2	They don't.
1:17.2	All right.
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