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Addiction is a family disease.

Caron Treatment Centers’ ground-breaking podcast brings parent support meetings to family members seeking honesty, hope and compassion.

This ongoing series features parents sharing how they are coping with the challenges of parenting a child with Substance Use Disorder and other mental health conditions. The group includes mothers and fathers, some in recovery, married and not, with teenage to adult children.

Apr 28, 2022

The Parent Support Group returned with a discussion about the many challenges in seeking professional help to address a substance use disorder for their child, as well as help for the entire family.  Caron Treatment Centers’ Mark O’Connor, Senior Regional Resource Director for New York joined the mothers and...


Apr 28, 2022

Caron Treatment Centers’ Mark O’Connor answers questions from parents about selecting the appropriate professional or treatment center when a child needs evaluation or care for a substance use disorder or other mental health condition, meeting the needs of other family members and the costs associated with these...


Apr 6, 2022

This Parent Support Group meeting focuses on how trauma plays a role in the experiences of our children with substance use disorder and also affects parents. Caron Treatment Centers’ Dr. Ramona Palmerio-Roberts, Executive Director of  Outpatient Treatment joined the mothers and fathers who gathered on Zoom due to...


Apr 6, 2022

Caron Treatment Centers’ Dr. Ramona Palmerio-Roberts answers questions from parents about determining whether inpatient or outpatient treatment is appropriate, why the subject of trauma seems to be coming up more often, and understanding the diagnosis of "co-occurring disorders.” 

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