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Don’t Let Your Loved One’s Addiction Destroy You
What do you do when someone you love is struggling with addiction? Our instincts may range from doing whatever it takes or costs to get them help to showing tough love by cutting off money and other assistance. But, ultimately, you can’t make someone stop using the drugs or alcohol that is ruining their life. But what you can control is how you respond to it.
Many families are navigating this nightmare, and Sara’s is no different. Maybe you know this agony too. Today, Sara welcomes Marguerite Connelly, the mother of two kids who have struggled with drug abuse. Her journey through her son’s ongoing addiction is the focus of her new book, “Addicted to the Addicted: A Mother’s Tale of Going from Heartbreak to Hopeful.”
In this raw and honest conversation, Connelly tells Sara how she learned not to let her own life get consumed by her son’s addiction, how she changed her interactions with her son in helpful ways, and the other ways in which parents and other family members can stay strong.
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Elon Musk Fact Checks Biden’s Old Tweet ‘No one is above the law’
In a clever reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, fact-checkers on Elon Musk’s X are flagging Biden’s old post stating “no one is above the law.” Biden’s old post, shared in May, was written as an attack on now-President-elect Donald Trump, but the tables have turned on Biden as he is being heavily criticized for his hypocrisy in placing his son “above the law.”
The New York Post reports:
“It now has a community warning readers: ‘President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes covering nearly 11 years of ‘offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
After that, Musk added his own proposed note calling out the president, writing: “By pardoning his son Hunter, not merely for a single crime, but for actual or potential crimes he may or may not have created over an eleven-year period, Joe Biden has made clear that some people are, in fact, above the law.”
According to the New York Post, “Hunter Biden, 54, pleaded guilty in September to nine counts tied to bilking Americans of $.1.4 million in taxes and was found guilty of three federal gun charges in June after he was charged with possession of a firearm while addicted to illegal drugs.”
Biden is not only being criticized for pardoning his Hunter, but for going back on his vow that he would not pardon his son. Biden argued in his defense that Hunter was “singled out only because he is my son,” The Post reports. Biden is hitting back saying that critics are only trying to break Hunter’s sobriety.
Musk shared a screenshot on X of his own fact-check with a statement saying “Community Notes slays.” Community Notes is a feature on X that allows users to flag false or misleading content, according to The Post, leaving the fact-checking up to its users rather than staffers.
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