AHS Views

Although it’s usually parents who are looking for alcohol or drug rehab for their kids, sometimes the tables are turned – singer and actor Mario’s mother had a heroin addiction most of Mario’s life. He’s now produced a documentary about it called I Won’t Love You to Death: The Story of Mario and His Mom. She has been clean now for 3 ½ months - Mario says they’ve been the best in his life - thanks to Mario, family friends, an interventionist and drug rehab.

I’ve known a lot of people who’ve grown up with parents who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. It’s a very hard life for both the parents and the kids.

I Won’t Love You to Death is a very appropriate title. Parents who are tolerant about their kids taking drugs or drinking, and kids who tolerate the same thing in their parents, really are in a life and death situation. Sometimes we think that being loving and tolerant will make the problem go away. But, it won’t. The number of alcoholics or drug addicts who recover on their own can be counted on one hand. Drug rehab is what they need.

A good drug rehab program counselor can help you with intervention, and make sure the person you care about gets into a drug rehab program that’s right for them. Don’t wait. Don’t love them to death.