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When Your Loved One Is Homeless and Using Drugs: A Family Guide to Engagement, Harm Reduction, and Housing

Your adult child is sleeping outside and using drugs. What the federal data says, what Housing First actually requires, and the steps that help this week.

Oct 15, 202614m

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Why Won't the Treatment Center Tell Me Anything? A Family Guide to Addiction Treatment Records

HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 decide what a rehab can share with you. Here's what the law actually says, what a consent form can unlock, and what to do.

Oct 14, 202615m

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Clinical Trials for Addiction Treatment: A Family's Guide to Finding and Joining One

A trial can open a treatment that insurance never covers. How to find a recruiting study, what consent protects, and the questions to ask before joining.

Oct 13, 202615m

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Adult Children of Parents With Addiction: A Guide to Healing and Boundaries

Growing up with a parent who struggled with alcohol or drugs leaves survival patterns that follow you into adulthood. What helps, and what to do first.

Oct 12, 202615m

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Raising Your Grandchild: A Practical Guide for Grandparents and Kinship Caregivers

Grandparents raising grandchildren need legal, financial, and emotional answers fast. Here's a practical guide to custody, benefits, trauma, and support.

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Indiana to Enforce New Medicaid Work Rules Jan. 1 — Addiction Treatment Is an Exemption

Indiana enforces work rules for its Healthy Indiana Plan on Jan. 1, 2027. FSSA says 58,000-plus members aren't compliant — and treatment is an exemption.

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Kratom and 7-OH: A Family Guide to Dependence, Withdrawal, and Treatment

Kratom looks like a natural supplement, but its 7-OH compounds can cause real dependence. How to spot it, what withdrawal looks like, and where treatment starts.

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Safe Storage and Disposal of Prescription Medications: A Family Guide

Where leftover pills really come from, how to secure what stays in the house, and how to get rid of what doesn't — take-back, mail-back, or trash.

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Sleep in Early Recovery: Why It Breaks Down and How to Rebuild It

Sleep heals more slowly than sobriety does. What is normal in early recovery, why poor sleep drives relapse, and the treatments that actually help a family.

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