Tamara: “My Daughter Is A Drug Addict?”

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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After a trip to Disney World took an unexpected turn, Tamara’s world fell apart at the so-called “happiest place on earth.” At nearly 60 years old, Tamara suddenly found herself a mother all over again: this time, raising her six-year-old grandson. Tamara shares how addiction and loss brought her to this place, and how re-learning the act of parenting has been nothing at all like she expected — and everything she needed to carry on.

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0:50.0	He comes out and says, well, I'm going to recommend that she do outpatient treatment, but really based on her use I would recommend inpatient treatment and I
1:08.6	I mean you could have knocked me over with a feather at that point.
1:13.2	I just, you know, I'm just like, what, what is happening here?
1:19.4	My daughter is a drug addict? When someone you love has an addiction, everything is so clear in
1:28.0	hindsight, painfully and crystal-fucking clear. But in the moment you don't know what to do and the not
1:37.5	knowing is gut-wrenching. Nothing makes sense, everything is upside down, and a feasible solution is nowhere in sight.
1:46.3	It can be especially painful to not have a solution when the person who needs it is your
1:51.5	own child. Someone for whom you've been problem solving since day
1:55.4	one.
1:56.4	Unfortunately, for some, there might not ever be a solution, just an aftermath. And for a mom named Tamra, the aftermath required more of her
2:08.9	than she ever could have imagined, because it asked her to become a mother all over again for
2:15.3	someone who had just lost his own.
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