Families of Youth with Substance Use Addiction

Cling to the thought that in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have--the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them. p. 124 of the Big Book.

Five years ago no one would have asked me for my opinion on substance use addiction. Oh, I gave my opinion but no one was asking. I'm humbled to be sitting in a hotel outside of Washington, DC exchanging greatest possessions with people from all over the U.S.A. Moms and Dads are here to collectively put their dark pasts in the hands of a higher power.

I live in Wisconsin. A farming state. We think of farming as crops and cattle. There is a new kind of farming sweeping the country. Farming with a PH as in Pharming--the illegal use of legal drugs, typically obtained illegally. Oxycontin is the crop most commonly pharmed. Every state with medicine cabinets in their home has the fertile ground necessary to raise Oxycontin.

Governments and big business can not move people with their message the way moms, dads, and siblings can. Here's a powerful message from a mom I met at dinner-- www.Momsagainstpharming.com


Compassion of a Mother in pain is powerful. I heard words from her I've heard from other Moms and Dads--I was angry, but that wasn't going to make a difference, so I started telling the story. I don't know the young man who's Mother gave me this brochure-- Legal but Deadly. He looks like every 19 year old boy--young, pleasant, happy sometimes, frustrated sometimes. His pictures show an athletic young man. The grave stone looks cold and final. I don't think his life is final because his Mom lives.

Death and misery will be averted for some people because people in pain share.