As Opioid Crisis Rages, Some Trade ‘Tough Love’ For Empathy

As Opioid Crisis Rages, Some Trade ‘Tough Love’ For Empathy
There is more than one path to healing for the drug user and their parents.
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Bea Duncan answered the phone at 2 a.m. on a January morning. Her son Jeff had been caught using drugs in a New Hampshire sober home and was being kicked out.

Bea and her husband Doug drove north that night nine years ago to pick him up. On the ride back home to Natick, Massachusetts, the parents delivered an ultimatum: Jeff had to go back to rehab or leave home.

Martha Bebinger
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