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Addiction: Why Me?

Saving Those Who Love an Addict!

...David R Carroll, CADCA

Calif. Alcohol & Drug Counselors Associate

You will find that knowledge is the greatest tool that you can acquire in addressing the problem of ADDICTION! As with anything else, the more you know about something the more you understand how to deal with that thing!

Addiction is a phenomenon that baffles those, who are not and even those who are, afflicted with this!

Chronic, progressive and often fatal disease!

Enable: To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity, make able.

To Enable: To help to make something possible.

Alcohol is a drug, period!

From this point on, when referring to drugs;

Alcohol is included in the list of addictive drugs!

Most who access my information will be desperate to find help with a teenage addict, but this problem reaches far beyond the children. You will find that addicts, young and old, have more in common than they have differences. Addicts, contrary to how it may seem, are predictable in stages that they go through, and ongoing behaviors!

The information provided here is not technical, and will be easily understood!

You are going to need to be open-minded and willing to change your concept of what has happened to the ADDICT in your life! Traditional values and thinking about "will", "character", and "motivation", will be redefined in regard to the

ADDICT! They are sick, afflicted with a "disease of the brain"… control of their lives has been stolen away; much as it is in other commonly known diseases.

The disease

E. M. Jellinek published "The Disease Concept of Alcoholism" in 1960. This model has generally been adapted to address all addictive drugs. You may, but will not absolutely need to, read this reference. It serves us to say that most substance use and abuse treatment professionals accept that Addiction is a disease. It is classified as a disease by both American, medical and psychiatric professional associations, as well as the World Health Organization.

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