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Websites
Grief Recovery After Substance Passing (GRASP): A community offering understanding, compassion, and support for those who have lost someone they love through addiction and overdose.
Partnership to End Addiction: The nation’s leading organization dedicated to addiction prevention, treatment and recovery.
Helping Parents Heal: A non-profit organization dedicated to assisting bereaved parents.
The Compassionate Friends Network: A self-help organization offering friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved families that have experienced the death of a child.
Support Groups
After the Storm (Facebook): A bereavement support network for those who have lost a child to addiction or overdose.
Helping Parents Heal (Facebook): An online support group affiliated with the Helping Parents Heal network.
The Beading Hearts Overdose Loss Support Group: A bereavement support group helping those to cope with the life-altering effects of the traumatic loss of a loved one to substance use or an overdose death.
Eluna Network: Resources and programs to support children and families impacted by grief or addiction.
Books
When a Child Dies from Drugs: Practical Help for Parents in Bereavement by Pat Wittberger and Russ Wittberger
Articles
Tips for Talking with Children about Addiction and Overdose Loss by Sarah Montgomery and Joy McCrady
The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After the Death of a Sibling From Substance Use or Overdose from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (PDF)
Other
Partnership to End Addiction’s Help & Hope by Text Line: Text JOIN to 55753 to receive personalized grief support.