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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 9, 2026

The parents discuss their continuing role in the recovery journey of their children. Moms and dads of children coping with substance use disorder or other mental health conditions explore how their parenting has evolved.  Three-time Olympic gold medalist Carrie Bates, now Caron Treatment Centers’ National Resource...


Apr 9, 2026

Caron Treatment Centers’ Carrie Bates responds to questions about the impact of stigma, working with companies and their employees and treatment differences for women and men clients. 

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The Parent-to-Parent Podcasts are provided as a service to you from other parents and do not represent professional...


Feb 12, 2026

Reflecting on parenting strategies is this month’s Parent Support Group meeting topic. Mothers and fathers of children dealing with substance use disorder or other mental health conditions explore how parenting evolved during this frequently challenging time. Caron Treatment Centers’  Senior Director of Education,...


Feb 12, 2026

Caron Treatment Centers’ Cory Trevena answers questions about educational efforts to help prevent young people from developing a substance use disorder, parents dealing with the feeling of having failed their kids and better understanding the role of parents seeking to support their children’s effort to...