Introduction to Tales from the Jungle - Living with Addiction

This episode is an introduction to Season One of a new podcast that I, Chelsea Dimitri (this pseudonym is explained in this episode), am presenting.  I am the mom of a heroin addict who was addicted for 15 years and at the time of this recording has been in recovery for a couple of years.  I believe family members of addicts are underserved. They have few resources and the “experts” are recovered addicts who have a drug abuser’s perspective.  That can work great for an addict - but not necessarily for sober family members.  I hope to give family members caught up in the storm that surrounds addiction hope and help with their perspective and some options of what worked (and didn’t work) for me.