Author Archives: Lori Leonard

How to know if your loved one is abusing Heroin or Opiates

Posted at Jun 06, 2014 | by Lori Leonard | Comments Off on How to know if your loved one is abusing Heroin or Opiates
Heroin addiction has finally gained attention by the main stream media with the recent deaths of famous stars such as Cory
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Does Your Child Suffer From “Affluenza” or Entitlement?

Posted at Jan 23, 2014 | by Lori Leonard | Comments Off on Does Your Child Suffer From “Affluenza” or Entitlement?
  You have probably heard the story of Ethan Couch.  If you haven’t he is the teen from Fort Worth, Texas
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Why should I stop enabling? How to move from enabling to supporting recovery

Posted at Sep 14, 2013 | by Lori Leonard | Comments Off on Why should I stop enabling? How to move from enabling to supporting recovery
Enabling Part 2 Through our failed attempts at helping (enabling) our loved one we have come to realize that we have
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Why people enable and what does it accomplish?

Posted at Jun 22, 2013 | by Lori Leonard | Comments Off on Why people enable and what does it accomplish?
Enabling Part 1 I am sure you have heard the term enabling before and perhaps you have been “accused” of enabling
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When Your Child is Abusing Drugs or Alcohol

Posted at Jan 22, 2013 | by Lori Leonard | Comments Off on When Your Child is Abusing Drugs or Alcohol
Nothing can be more devastating than to learn that your child is abusing drugs or alcohol.  We receive a large number
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Never Giving Up Hope

Posted at Feb 16, 2012 | by Lori Leonard | Comments Off on Never Giving Up Hope
Many interventionists work independently.  At Hope we work as a team.  Instead of only receiving one perspective you receive two from
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