Emily is an advocate for mental health and disability rights because of the firsthand experience she has with both subjects. She writes about the experiences and life lessons she has learned from growing up with an estranged mother who was ridden with drug addiction.
This TED talk shares Melissa’s personal experience about growing up as a child with a mother addicted to alcohol and opiates.
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, Tommy was the younger brother of two heroin addicts. Tommy takes you through the different stages of his life as his brothers were going through their addiction.
After her brother was diagnosed with the disease of addiction, Sam Fowler and her family had to change the way they lived their lives.
