This 20 minute Real Talk podcast features one physician’s personal experience of having a family member addicted to opioids.
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Addiction Impacts the Entire Family: Pearls for Providers
Source: Office Based Addiction Treatment at Boston Medical Center's Grayken for Addiction
This 4 minute video, entitled “Addiction Impacts the Entire Family: Pearls for Providers” from an educator at Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction who has a family experience with addiction, describes the role family members can play in facilitating treatment for substance use disorders and provides guidance on how health care providers can engage with family members in understanding evidence-based treatment.
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Collateral Damage of the Opioid Crisis: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren – What They Need and How to Help
Source: Altarum
This 7 page briefing paper from Altarum, and authored by C. Stanik, looks at the impact the opioid crisis has had on grandparents raising grandchildren. Researchers at Altarum conducted interviews with 20 grandmothers in Michigan who were raising their grandchildren and collected 1,015 responses to a nationwide survey of grandparents.
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The Nar-Anon Family Groups Guide to Local Services
Source: Nar-Anon Family Groups
This is the 2018 Nar-Anon Family Group’s guide to providing local services for anyone who has been affected by close contact with a person with an addiction including information for Narateen programs which serve youth and teenagers affected by addition. The guide includes information about Nar-Anon and Narateen policies and management structures, financial policies, and other traditions of the Nar-Anon and Narateen groups.
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Closing the Gap: An Examination of Access to Best-In-Class Evidence-based Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs for K-12 Students in the US
Source: Transforming Youth Recovery
This 2015 report from Transforming Youth Recovery looks at alcohol and drug prevention programs for K-12 students in the United States. The first section of the report describes the historical experience of drug prevention efforts in educational settings in the U.S.
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Facts about Alateen
Source: Al-Anon Family Groups
This brochure provides introduction to Alateen, which provides supports to young people what have been affected by alcohol use of a family member or close friend.
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Al-Anon/Alateen Fact Sheet for Professionals
Source: Al-Anon Family Groups
A 2 page fact sheet about Al-Anon and Alateen, organizations that provide support to anyone affected by a relative or friend’s use of alcohol.
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Sesame Street in Communities: Parental Addiction
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
Sesame Street in Communities website about parental addiction provides resources for parents, caregivers, educators, and health care providers who help children with family members struggling with addiction. The website provides printable materials, videos and other resources designed to support children.
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Parental Addiction
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
This 2 minute video is from the Sesame Street in Communities series on parental addiction. The video features Elmo talking about his friend Karli’s mothers addiction and treatment. More videos and other resources from the Sesame Street in Communities program can be found on their website: https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/topics/parental-addiction/.
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Eluna Network
Source: Eluna Network
Website for Eluna Network which provides resources and programs including camps to support children and families impacted by grief or addiction.