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When children witness parents using substances at their events

I missed my daughter's soccer game because I was getting high in my car in the parking lot and she saw me walking back to the field

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision of a child's innocent expectations with a parent's active addiction creates moments of irreversible awareness.

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“Where Are You with Addiction and parenting?”

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