Never Give Up
Addiction & alcoholism are afflictions. The addict has most likley
deeply hurt the family. Lying, cheating, job loss, violence, even
criminal behaviors are all sympyoms of the addictive behavior. If
these were the symptoms of cancer would you give up? Of course
not, you would try other treatments. You would go to the end of the
earth to find something to save your loved one's life. If you have a
chronic relapse victim in your life you are in the same position as a
terminal cancer patient's family if not effectively treated. The
addict/alcoholic will die or end up in prison. Unfortunately addiction
is viewed all too often in light of lack of will power or the addict just
wants to get high and doesn't care about his family. This could not be
farther from the truth.
Never giving up should not be confused with enabling on the part of
the family. The enabling behavior is destructive and must be stopped
immediately upon identifying the active addict or alcoholic. The
family must provide treatment options only.
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True Story of the dangers of drug addiciton
This is a true story of what happened during the summer of
2003, with a family from the New Jersey Area who had
contacted one of our counselors and were looking for help for
their Daughter (D.B.).
In the month of June, 2003 a mother from New Jersey (S.B.)
contacted a counselor about getting help for her Daughter
(D.B.). Our counselor recommended a rehabilitation program and
(Mom S.B.) contacted this facility to get information about how
to help (D.B.) who was wanting help one day and not the next.
Our counselor recommended an intervention and (S.B.) went
ahead as planned. (Mom S.B.) contacted the facility to get
information and then a couple days later called back to ask
when she could come to check in.
The counselor recommended that she be brought the next
morning as (D.B.) was very unstable and was likely to change
her mind or even worse.
(Mom S.B.) decided she would wait until Tuesday to bring
(D.B.) to the facility.
On Monday (D.B.) left without telling anyone and went to
Florida. The counselor from the drug rehab facility tried to
contact (D.B.) in Florida but was unable to contact her.
In Late July, (Mom S.B.) contacted counselor of the rehab
facility to inform him that (D.B.) had overdosed, and that she
was buried 2 days earlier. (Mom S.B.) was devastated that she
had not taken the advice of the counselor to get her daughter
(SB) to the centre the next day and she said she wanted to make
sure that he (the counselor) never gave up on anyone, and as
well that she hoped any other family member out there would
take the advice of the counselor and act fast so as to prevent the
one last hurrah from being a deadly reminder of how real this
problem is.
