Parent Survival Skills Training (PSST)

Over the years we have collected/shared hard-won information, skills, and techniques a parent needs to help a teenager with a drug problem save his own life. (CLICK ON THE LOGO ABOVE to return to the home-page for this blog.)

Parent Talking Points

Lloyd talked about Parent Talking Points this week and it started me thinking and reviewing past roll plays for a list. When I got the list...

Get Serious petition urging elected official to support common-sense, research-based solutions to reduce underage drinking.

While this cartoon might make you chuckle, it's a sobering fact that this year, more than 5,000 underage youth will die from alcohol-rel...

Top 10 Addiction Myths — and Myth Busters

(From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Silent Treatment: Addiction in America" project, produced by Public Access Journal...

Summary of 4-14-07 Alliance Office PSST

Nine parents attended this meeting at the Alliance Office in the North Hills. Powerlessness was a huge topic. Our role-play can best be enti...

Idea: Manny the Manipulator

Ken and I have been talking about having one place where you can go to see all the manipulative techniques that our kids use. This could be ...

Eastern Probation Office Meeting 4-7-07

Nine parents attended this meeting. Topics that we discussed: the incurable yet treatable disease of addiction, what to do with anger and re...

Reaching Out To Young People Before They Reach Out To Alcohol And Drugs

Reaching Out To Young People Before They Reach Out To Alcohol And Drugs By Mike Manko The numbers are frightening; children as young as n...

North Hills Town Hall Meeting 4/10/2007

The North Hills School District, in cooperation with the Alliance Against Drugs, will host a town hall meeting to discuss drug use and its e...

Lost

Every member in the group lost someone this week. The loss wasn't the result of a lack of trying, a lack of caring or a lack of loving...

Live Drug Forum on KDKA radio

The Alliance hosted the second annual Drug Forum with Marty Griffin today. This event was live on KDKA radio from 9:00 to Noon broadcasting...

Role-play: Parent helps to prevent relapse.

We have all learned a great deal about the signs of relapse. As Mary pointed out, overconfidence and anger can be signs. Home Alone hit on ...

Relapse

In a previous meeting we talked about how easy it was to see the signs of a relapse when looking backward in time and how difficult it was t...

Suboxone

I met Melanie Donati ( RN, BSN melanie.donati@reckittbenckiser.com)at an Alliance meeting. Melanie is a Clinical Liaison for Reckitt Bencki...

First North Hills PSST: Thanks for your support!

Valerie and I wish to thank all ten parents who helped make this meeting a success. Half of the Parents had already attended our Eastern Pro...

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