The initial act of approaching your loved one about a drug problem may well be one of the hardest things you have ever done.
First you need to try to determine if the loved one is even aware of his addiction or not. It is quite possible that the addict, through denial, does not think he has a drug problem. Another possibility is that he knows he has a problem, but doesn’t want to do anything about it; or he is...
Leaving an abusive drug addict is the same as leaving any other abusive relationship.
You are in physical danger and if there are children in the home, they are too. Abuse often escalates into fatalities and you need to think first of immediate physical safety and go from there.
Whether the abuse if due to someone prone to violence, being drunk or on drugs is really not the immediate issue, safety is. It is...
How Do You Help a Drug Addict Brother?
Dealing with a drug addict brother is hard. If he is older than you, the brother you always looked up to has fallen short in the hero department in some way. If he is younger than you, then you want to wring his neck and chastise him. Okay, maybe you want to do that either way at times.
Still, you love him. He is a part of you. You share a history, a family, and...
When someone you love is plagued by drug addiction, it is heart wrenching.
Many times it is a son or a daughter and you would do anything to help save them from themselves and the drug addiction. While the drug addict is killing their feelings with drugs, the loved ones are left to have to deal with the pain and anguish of having a loved one with a drug addiction. The first thing you need to do is make yourself...
There are few things more painful in life than watching a loved one ruin his or her life due to drugs and/or alcohol.
The ironic thing is; if we let it, it can ruin our lives as well. We want to do what is best for our loved one. Chances are, they do not even admit they have a problem. It is part of the addiction and it is called denial. Everyone else in the world can see the problem but they can’t. Even if they...
