When Everyone Has Cut All Ties with The Addict – Now What? The longer someone stays in their addiction the worse everything becomes. Treatment center after treatment center, incarceration after incarceration – most loved ones eventually find they cannot...
How to Make Amends in Addiction Recovery Steps 8 and 9 of the AA recovery program are about making amends in your relationships. In Step 8, you take a look at where you’ve gone wrong with relationships in the past. Broken relationships are a common consequence of...
If Your Parents Are Addicts, Are You More Prone to Addiction? Drug and alcohol addiction have definite genetic and hereditary components. Are you prone to addiction if one or more of your parents suffers from the disease or are in recovery? The answer is yes.Science...
Is Addiction Genetic? In my 40 plus years of working with suffering addicts and alcoholics, I have definitely seen a genetic component to the disease of addiction. Over the years, a great deal of medical research has been done around the genetics of addiction. We now...
Supporting the Addict and the Dangers of Enabling Alcoholism and drug addiction effect families tremendously. They also impact friends, employers and many others. Big question – How do you support suffering addicts without enabling them? This is a matter that...