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.)

Heroin's Siren Song - submitted by Wilma

Thanks to Wilma, who provided the link to this article, part of a series in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Click here to link to the a...

'Smiles': The New Killer Drug

'Smiles': The New Killer Drug Every Parent Should Know About Click here for the online article from Yahoo Shine. ...

STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN TO YOUR TEENS

A NOTE TO PARENTS: Drug Lingo - Know What to Listen for Have you ever heard your teen reference the time "4:20?" Many par...

Cisco 1992 - 2012

We will always have our regrets but we will always thank God for the 20 years we had with our beautiful son Cisco. He fought hard and now h...

To Rocco & Sally

Read this quote and thought instantly of you. Your gentle ways of helping us all in PSST with the knowledge you have gained through your jo...

In Memoriam

In Memory of Cisco ~ beloved son of Rocco & Sally Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. ...

The PSST Support Group is now on Yahoo!

Join the Parent Survival Skills Training support group on YAHOO Groups & start your conversation today!! If you've ever...

FROM THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE REVIEW 7-31-2012 Contributed by Wilma

FROM THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE REVIEW 07-31-2012 Summer is Peak Time for Substance Abuse Parents, watch out: Your kids ages 12 to 17 are ...

PSST Role Play: "Whose Problem Is It?"

PSST meetings are so very helpful, not just for learning techniques and skills in working with your teens in a non-combative and non-phy...

TOUGH DECISIONS

We will be telling our son he can no longer live at home...Help & Support Needed! I am a recovering woman with 21+ years clean. My fam...

Don't beat yourself up!

This is a message that we have worked on for the last several meetings; especially, at Eastern this last Saturday we put several role-pla...

Parent Seeking Advice on How to Break the News to Their Teenager - About Act 53

Sally- We have our ACT 53 hearing with our son next week. We have to tell him later this week which we are worried about. Do you have a...

Resentments (originally posted August 11, 2009)

There is an old Zen story about two monks who meet up with a woman in their travels, and one of the monks helps her across a river, even th...

Aggressive Teens

Please do not use this image without our permission (PSST). We talked about aggressive teenagers at the Wexford meeting on June 9. It...

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