Parents Helping Parents Gives Hope To Families Dealing With Addiction
Update: 2015-10-18
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Every other Thursday night, Parents Helping Parents meets in a room at the Norman Regional Hospital Education Center. The meetings consist of mostly adults gathered around a rectangular setup of tables in the middle of the room. People ranging from their mid 20s to their 60s are in attendance. Hugh Benson, a board member for the group, helps organize these twice-monthly meetings. “Parents Helping Parents is generally parents of children of any age whose kids are struggling with substance abuse of some form” Benson said. “What’s unique about Parents Helping Parents is that we help parents deal with their children who are dealing with substance abuse. We don’t directly help the substance abuser.” Tonight’s meeting featured a speaker whose personal experience with recovery from substance abuse has led him to helping others. The speech was followed by a discussion. There were also poster boards set up with pamphlets for attendees to take with them. “We wanna help parents, substance abuse
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