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When your addiction history affects your child's substance use

I have been clean for seven years but my teenage son started using and I do not know if this is my fault or if I am the right person to help him.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parental recovery experience can feel simultaneously like qualification and disqualification for helping children facing similar struggles.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Recovery identity — from addiction?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.