Help parents help their children with Substance Abuse Disorder. I wanted to create this while my daughter is still alive & suffering with this horrible disease. Our journey through the so called "treatment process" has been discouraging to say the least. Insurance companies don't want to pay for proper treatment & most treatment facilities have a waiting list. Please help me pass Casey's Law in New York State. https://www.facebook.com/CaseysLawNYS

2. “No parent holds their child in their arms and thinks they
will grow up to be addicted to drugs.” – Heidi Troche

5. “One smile can change the world.” - Unknown

9. “Courage, determination, pride...that's
what little girls are made of.” - Unknown

16. Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a
prescription pain reliever for the first time. – drugfreeworld.org

17. A study of the life expectancy of male heroin addicts
in California found that heroin addicts typically lose a
decade and a half to their addiction. – oatc.ca

18. IT DOESN’T MATTER IF IT’S VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY

19. The Matthew Casey Wethington Act for Substance
Abuse Intervention is named for Matthew Casey
Wethington, who died in 2002 from a heroin
overdose at the age of 23.
The act provides a means of intervening with
someone who is unable to recognize his or her
need for treatment due to their impairment. This
law will allow parents, relatives and/or friends to
petition the court for treatment on behalf of the
substance abuse-impaired person.
Denial and distorted thinking impedes a person’s
ability to make a rational decision. The “bottom”
for many is death. Addiction is a progressive, life-
threatening disease. The best hope of survival for a
person who is substance abuse impaired is
intervention. Studies show that involuntary
treatment can be just as successful as voluntary
treatment.
Most individuals who are substance abuse-
impaired receive court-ordered treatment only
after they have become arrested for a crime while
under the influence of a substance. Drugs and
crime often go hand-in-hand because people
who are substance abuse impaired are forced by
their disease to resort to any means necessary to
procure their drug.
Court-ordered treatment can be effective
regardless of who initiates it. Not all people who
are substance abuse impaired are arrested or, in
the event that they are, may not receive the
necessary treatment.
Casey’s Law was created for families like yours
who love someone who with the help of an
intervention tool can have the opportunity to
recover from and survive the disease of drug
and/or alcohol addiction.
http://operationunite.org/treatment/caseys-law/
http://www.caseyslaw.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CaseysLawNYS