Parent 2 Parent Courier Post

Parents push for treatment
Courier Post
Tuesday, December 11, 2007


Susan Foose of Ventnor, another founding member, said she lost her 22-year-old son, Bryan, to a heroin addiction in 1997. He died two days after her insurance company refused to approve his care.

"They always say our children are important, until it becomes 'our addicted children,'" said Foose, who now works as a substance abuse counselor. "It's profits over people."


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A push for health care

Gloucester County Times
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

"Tear down the wall of mental health and addiction discrimination built by private insurers so that our children may access the ... treatment they so desperately need,"
-- Parent to Parent


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Assemblyman Joe Roberts
Parent-to-Parent Rally Video

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Parent-to-Parent urged Speaker Roberts to post mental health, addiction bill


Parent-to-Parent
Moms, some of whom have had their children die of addiction because of treatment limits imposed by health insurers, rallied outside Speaker Joe Roberts legislative district office. They delivered a letter urging mental health and parity legislation be posted for a vote and that no amendments be included that would compromise the coverage and protections the bill provides for.

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