Learn to Cope is a support group for parents and family members dealing with a loved one addicted to heroin, Oxycontin and other drugs. It began in 2004 when I needed a place to go to get support for our family and today our son is alive and well, so there is hope. Currently there is a crisis, an epidemic of OC and Heroin use in Massachusetts. Most of the kids are between 17-26 years old, some start in high school, others have started in college. The rules have changed in society today, because Heroin is now in a snort able form and 80-90% pure.
It doesn't matter where you live, how you have parented, what your income is.......it knows no boundaries and it's out there. Young people and communities need to be educated on prescription drug use as well as the gateway drugs that can lead them to it. Countless lives have been lost.
We are out there warning young people and their parents because this is a community crisis, not just a family's crisis. As many of us say "By the grace God go I". This website was formed to support families and educate them on addiction and well as resources and a "place" to go when feeling desperate or alone and we are here 24/7. Our mission is to support with kindness, care, compassion and empathy. You are not alone.
read more at http://www.learn2cope.org/
Joanne Peterson
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