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G.R.A.S.P. Group in Nashua New Hampshire GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing) was created to help provide sources of help, compassion and most of all, understanding, for families or individuals who have had a loved one die as a result of drugs . Anyone who has lost a loved one through drugs knows that society treats that death in a much different manner than a death from any other cause. There is the unspoken feeling that the individual who succumbed to drugs must have somehow been less than a good person. For the person who has survived, surely they too must have somehow been a failure, for "letting this occur." Why were they not strong enough to stop this from happening? You were, they feel, in whatever way, partially a factor in the demise of the person you grieve.

Anyone who has gone through the anguish of losing a loved one through drugs knows the feeling. Just the loss of that person is devastating enough. But coupled with friends and associates who, try as they might not to, look at you in a different way and, you're sure, thinking less of you for what happened, make it nearly impossible to cope. Above all, they do not want to discuss it with you, feeling inadequate to really comprehend what you're going through. But where to turn? Society has grieving groups for when a child has died from illness, accident, suicide or even murder. They have similar groups for those whose family member "- parent, sibling, spouse or partner," has passed on through disease or accident. But, oddly, there is little help available for those who have lost that special person through a misuse of drugs. GRASP founders Pat & Russ Wittberger  www.jennysjourney.org http://www.grasphelp.org/index.htm Please join us on the second Thursday of every month from 7-8:30 pm. GRASP is held at 71 Spit Brook Road, Suite 102, Nashua, NH.   http://www.jennysjourney.org/http://www.grasphelp.org/index.htmshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1