The best way to help an alcoholic is through modifying your own behavior, not attempting to control theirs. This means that you do not try to control or manipulate them. Don’t attempt to convince them to just quit the booze. Do not threaten them or shame them or engage with angry arguments with them. None [...]
Drug addiction can affect nearly anyone because it has so many different avenues of attack these days. You have kids and teenagers who are smoking marijuana. There is a lot of peer pressure to drink alcohol in our culture and there is opportunity to do so almost everywhere these days. Then of course there are [...]
In what way can we reach out to the alcoholic and help them? Historically, recovery programs have attempted to answer this question but without a lot of success at it. You may have pushed someone in your life towards recovery without much success. If it has come to this point then perhaps you should consider [...]
