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.)

Parents of Teen Drug Addicts and Alcoholics Tell Other Parents What NOT To Do

Parents of Teen Drug Addicts and Alcoholics Tell Other Parents What NOT To Do Borrowed from drugrehabtreatment.com By the time t...

Internet Acronyms for Parents

Lloyd passed along the following document of Internet Acronyms that parents should know. These are not the usual LOL or BRB acronyms that...

Marijuana Coming From Youngtown May Be Laced With Heroin

Thanks to Jessica, who sent in the following link. This article from KDKA Pittsburgh warns about the latest drug-related danger in our ...

Addiction and "Logic"

Addiction and "Logic" "A person who tries to understand addiction using intellectual logic will become frustrated and fee...

An Award-Winning Speech

In early October, our Parents of the Year spoke at the Allegheny County courthouse, where they also received recognition for their award. ...

Congratulations to our Award-Winners!!

The Parents of the Year award will be presented to JESSICA & ROGER on Thursday, October 4 at an awards ceremony beginning at 6:00pm at...

Healing Grief

Someone handed me a small pamphlet called "Healing Grief " by Amy Hillyard Jensen. I'm in a state of mind that others can...

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...

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