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.)

The Spell Has Been Broken - Part Two

The Spell Has Been Broken - Part Two One has to Repeat Breaking the Spell every day. Your teenager will keep guilting you and tugging at you...

The Spell Has Been Broken - Part One

There seems to be a general concensus among the mothers of addicts that I have met; they confess that they are enablers. It seems that it is...

Feb 20th PSST Meeting - Very Therapeutic

South Hills PSST Meeting was attended by 7 parents and 5 professionals. (Professionals are officers, therapists and directors) After the ope...

Update: Sally Rocco and Cisco from inpatient treatment.

On January 19th you heard from Rocco and he filled you in on Cisco's relapse. Cisco is controlling his anger and acting calm when we vis...

Cisco Does Not Pass Go - Starts Over (Sally and Rocco’s Rollercoaster Ride Continues)

So here we go again. Our son has relapsed and had yet another opportunity to visit Shuman Center (his fourth visit since October). Cisco is ...

Wisdom from Wexford (December 12th)

Here are the tips that parents shared at our second Sixth Annual Reunion/ Holiday Meeting. Once again Valerie took notes. Also, once again, ...

Rocco’s response to Tips from the Sixth-Year PSST Reunion.

"It's not like we stuck our heads in the sand. We accepted that he had problems. We sought out counselors, psychiatrists, tutors, a...

Tips from the Sixth-Year PSST Reunion. (Use comments to add more wisdom to this post please.)

The tips that parents were giving to each other were so good that Val started taking notes on her Blackberry during this rare reunion meetin...

Let's count the things to be thankful about.

Your teenager may not be doing as well as you'd hoped he would be doing by now. Or, perhaps even when it appears that your teenager has ...

Ever wonder what those pills are that you found in your teenagers bookbag?

Ever find pills at home and wonder what your teenager is taking? Look up the pills yourself on Drugs.com . This is a way to look up the very...

Candyland Post #2

In my first research on this term (see below) it appears that I missed a common reference to Candyland meaning trips with Salvia Divinorum ....

Candyland

Candyland: "Many users suck on lollipops (or pacifiers) to block the teethgrinding that E can cause." E being Ecstasy- the drug ...

Sally, Rocco, & Cisco: the story continues...

I can still hear the deep, male voice of the stranger on the phone and his words echo in my mind. "We have your son, he is at Auberle, ...

Some scenarios from our Wexford PSST and...

...let's look for the agreeing statements in each scenario. Some of this is the way it happened at PSST and some of it is just inspired ...

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