Parents want to help kids with addiction. Finding programs is hard | NBC4 Washington

Families can face a long path to finding treatment when a young person is using fentanyl.

Stafford didn’t participate in just one or two drug treatment programs. His mother, Liz Nibley, found 42 programs for him.

Even now, Liz has the list of all 42 programs on her phone. Scrolling through the list, she said the programs took place all over the country. Some were better than others, some were awful, and a few worked for Stafford for a while.

As Stafford began each program, his mother said so many goodbyes to him, she recalled.

“I just hoped always for the future. I always had hope for the future,” she said.

But after 42 programs and almost 10 years of fighting, addiction beat Stafford just days before his 25th birthday.

Dr. Marc Fishman, a Maryland psychiatrist specializing in addiction treatment, says primary care doctors should know how to treat young people.

“We need to do a better job about pushing these treatments out into primary care, because that’s where kids already are,” Fishman insisted.

“It shouldn’t be this hard,” he said.
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