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{weblog_name} - Learning From “Eternity”
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I had the honor recently of meeting an amazing group of parents called “Eternity.” I’ll be telling their story in next week’s Jewish Times. Eternity is a group of friends sponsored by the Associated’s Jewish Addiction Services. These friends most definitely wish they weren’t in this particular “club,” because each of the seven parents interviewed had lost an adult child to a drug overdose. Their children were just like your children or my children. They liked hamburgers, comedies, music, sports and nature.  Most of all, they loved other people. They died because of the insidious disease of drug addiction. I learned a great deal from these seven parents. What I think I learned the most, however, was how important it is as a caring community that we not stigmatize anyone because of this disease. The Eternity group said that… read more