15. When Bottom Hits You!

06/28/22 • 23 min

Addicted persons never get help until things look desperate, so sometimes those who love an addicted person can help them by actually making things worse. There are legal interventions, employer interventions, medical interventions, and family interventions. All of these can be useful to push the addicted person towards help.

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14. Anybody Not Like Me

Diagnosing addiction is sometimes a difficult thing to do. Certain signs such as: increased tolerance, relief use, blackouts and unplanned usage. The easiest way to tell if something is a problem is to look at what problems the usage causes in major areas of life such as: relationships, legal, financial, health, and work. That which causes a problem is a problem.

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16. Changing Horses

Cross dependency is a term that means that an addict doesn't really quit their destructive behavior - they just switch to a different addictive agent. For example, switching from whiskey to beer or from beer to marijuana or from street drugs to prescription drugs. This is intended by the addict to look like change, but it really is not.