Author Christine Naman's new book, 'About Natalie,' chronicles her daughter's heroin addiction and recovery.
I didn’t know what I was looking at. The signs were all there: the bloodshot eyes, the erratic sleeping and eating, the change in my daughter’s friend group, the secretiveness, the pulling away from our family. It was all right in front of me. I believe that sometimes we only allow ourselves to see what we want to.
Look, listen and yes, smell your child. Chances are they are not going to look like an addict to you. They are going to look like your child, but like they're just sleepy, having a bad day, a little irritable, growing up or becoming independent.When I sat in my first parent support group, I found myself surrounded not by parents of monsters or bad people. Instead, I was in a room with other “normal” people.
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