susan mckeown: "faster" stands for "families advocating substance treatment education and recovery." every tuesday evening for the last 13 years, we have run a parent support group. kristen: mckeown is the family support coordinator for the children' s behavorial health collaborative, which has twelve support groups across the state with volunteers ready and waiting to help. susan mckeown: it would be wonderful if parents of younger children would come just when they start to notice things like maybe they are smoking cigarettes or pot, skipping school, or not making their after school job, or they just and although not everyone who smokes marijuana goes on to be a heroin addict, for sure, every parent in our groups, all their children started with marijuana. kristen: mckeown says many parents hestitate to come to a support group because they feel ashamed. and she says that needs to change. susan mckeown: if we, as a community, can all start talking about this, open up about what we are dealing with, those numbers will increase. kristen: if you are looking for family and support resour