The Difficult Discussion: Your Turn
Avoid accusations, threats, self-pity, bringing up old resentments, etc.
Category: Families
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About Saying “No”
You may have unintentionally established a pattern of saying things you didn’t really mean, or making promises you didn’t keep, or threatening consequences that never came to pass.
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Communicating With Your Recovering Loved One
It is not always about having the right words to say, but asking the right questions and giving the space to answer with vulnerability.
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Cutting Off the Cash
As we explored their dilemma, the father suddenly had an insight: the money he gave his son, regardless of reason, just wound up in some in some drug dealer’s pocket.
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The Advice Trap
There are folks who make the rounds, getting the same advice over and over, and never putting it into action.
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Denial? Or Delusion?
Of course, left to its own devices, addiction often worsens.
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Why Addiction is a Family Disease
Partners of addicted people may have difficulty leaving or setting boundaries because they do not wish to be rejected or hated by their partner.
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Professionals and Addiction
Money is a tool that allows some to delay the inevitable. They construct a protective bubble that minimizes the risk of getting caught and the other consequences that follow addiction.
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Relapse is Not Failure
I felt detached from life and the people around me. I felt like a failure, but I had no other choice but to get back on my feet and try again.
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Drug Sniffing Parents
…actually more of an issue now than in the 80’s, because of the presence of super-powerful opioids like fentanyl or carfentanil, and the growing risk of unintended overdose.
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Celebrity Testimonials
It’s an illness that at different times seems to respond to everything and nothing. As in ‘everything works for someone, and nothing works for everyone.’
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Perception or Deception?
The addicted brain is unable to accurately evaluate the situation.
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The View Depends on Where You Stand
This isn’t a problem a physician can deal with comfortably in the context of a 12-15 minute office visit.
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