Parents of Addicted Loved Ones support group starts in South Lake Tahoe

Education and support is now offered to locals on the South Shore who have a son or daughter, or other loved one, who is suffering from addiction.

Parents of Addicted Loved Ones (PAL), is a support group of parents helping parents that meets at Tahoe Youth & Family Services every Wednesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The sessions are free of charge.

PAL can also help spouses who feel they have to parent their addicted partner.

PAL is open to all sober family members and friends who are 18-year-old and older.
By attending their meetings, family members learn proven ways to help their loved one recover from addiction, primarily by focusing on their own education and growth. Thousands have been helped by PAL, and testimonies abound about loved ones seeking recovery once their family members learned how to help them in healthy ways.

According to recent research cited by the National Institute for Drug Abuse, opioid/heroin overdose deaths now exceed the number of people who die annually from car crashes. In 2015, former President Barack Obama requested $1.5 billion in spending to combat the issue of opioid/Heroin abuse alone, noting it is an epidemic in our country. And as is commonly reported, the vast majority of those in our prisons are there in connection with drug related offenses.

Although PAL has been informally in existence since 2006, they incorporated in Arizona as a non-profit in 2015 in order to help expand PAL nationally. PAL vision is to make PAL meetings available to all parents of addicted loved ones.

More information about the organization can be found at palgroup.org. In South Lake Tahoe, contact facilitator Dee Dee Gooding at 5300-541-2445 ext.103

Tahoe Youth & Family Services is located at 1021 Fremont Avenue in South Lake Tahoe.