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.)

"Meanest Mom on the Planet" Talks About Car Ad (Written by Elizabeth Bishop)

OLDS 1999 Intrigue: "Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for 3 weeks before s...

"I am the mother of an addict..." by Jennifer

HI MY NAME IS JENNIFER, I AM A MOTHER OF AN ADDICT,MY SON SHAWN IS NOW 18 HE BECAME AN ADDICT AT THE AGE OF 14. I USED ACT 53 TO SAVE HIS ...

Listen To One of Our Parents on KDKA

Left click any place in this sentence to hear one of our parents on the Marty Griffin show - You can also right click and "save as...

We are opening our meeting this saturday at 8 AM!

Its our holiday meeting. People may want to come early. We will attempt hot coffee by 8:00 AM. Come in early and help us celebrate the holid...

Ask me again. Ask me again! (who is the big dog?)

This role-play or technique if you will, comes up again and again at our meetings as parents discover it's effectiveness in stopping tee...

A little holiday fun

We had a suggestion (good idea Barb!) at our last meeting to share some holiday treats and joy during our 12/15 meeting at the Eastern Proba...

Report on recent meetings and Holiday Vist role-play.

We had four parents two weeks ago at Eastern, 12 parents this last Saturday at Eastern, and three parents at Gateway Greentree. At the 12-pa...

Cancelled Sat. Nov. 27th Alliance Meeting And Happy Thanksgiving from Val and Lloyd!

This meeting is cancelled due to the holiday weekend. ........... At this time, Val and I want to take this opportunity to wish all parents ...

New Talking Points Brochure

Back in April, one of the meeting topics covered key "talking points" to make with our kids. The idea was to get these points int...

INTERVENTION on A&E by Lorraine

There is a great show on A&E that deals with substance abuse. It is a reality TV show that proceeds through the intervention process wit...

"The Real Deal” w/ KDKA’s Marty Griffin, Nov. 2, 2007 at Orchard Hill Church in Wexford

This year, The Alliance Against Highly Addictive Drugs has invited parents from PSST to participate on the panel. This will broadcast live....

Letter from mother to daughter by Paula.

In a way this is a letter to the disease of addiction. It is powerfully written by a mother to her daughter, however, it is the disease of a...

Ken receives Parent of the Year on October 4, 2007.

Ken was recognized both for his outstanding parenting and for his generous volunteer work to help other parents. He almost singlehandedly s...

The Turn of a Phrase

It was Sunday and I was visiting with my daughter J. at a half way house. The sun was warm, the weather was trying to decide if it was fall...

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