Delaware Lawmakers Must Pave The Way For Comprehensive Addiction Treatment

Being the mother of an addict was tough. Combine that with being a registered nurse and it becomes a nightmare. You watch their struggle to get clean. You see the roadblocks that stop the possibility of recovery in its tracks. You witness the neglect of the insurance industry. You feel the bias against the disease. You live the stigma along with your child. My son Matt’s battle ended on a cold day in January of 2015. He lost his battle and I lost my purpose and my heart. I thought I could deal with my grief and let addiction become a part of my past. I thought I could bury the pain of the disease along with my son and move on. What I didn’t know was that once you lived with and loved someone who suffered from this mistreated disease, it becomes a part of who you are. It courses through your being like the blood flowing to your heart. Once you’ve lived the stigma and witnessed the hate, addiction becomes inescapable. I never planned on becoming an advocate. I wanted to disappear and guard my heart against further pain. I wanted to live a quiet life remembering my son. The last thing I wanted was to live addiction again. That feeling stayed with me until I witnessed mother after mother join my club. Every day in our state, another mother got the phone call that demolished her world. The phone call letting her know her child has died from the mistreated disease of addiction. Now that I had time, I started to research Delaware and addiction. It had been a year s...
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