Understanding family — support without enabling – addiction
From the book – Chapter 25: Addiction and Substance Use
Family — support without enabling
A key question for families is: how can you support someone without enabling them? Enabling is paying the fine, hiding the bottles, and calling the boss with a new lie. Support is: stay, name the danger, offer a ride to a clinic, keep the house safer, refuse the lie, do not abandon the person.
Stigma delays care. A family that treats addiction only as disgrace will get secrecy. Secrecy feeds the cue.
Read the full chapter – Chapter 25: Addiction and Substance Use
Stories from real life
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- The Cigarette Behind the Hostel – Aisha, nineteen, started vaping at a friend's party in her first year of college in Pune. It looked harmless and tasted of mango. Within months she…
- Night Games, Empty Mornings – Karan, fifteen, from Jaipur, once loved cricket and drawing. Over a year, an online game took over. He played until three in the morning, hid the…
- Pills for Sleep, Pills for Nerves – Mrs Dorothy Pereira, sixty-eight, widowed in Goa, was given a sleeping tablet after her husband died. It helped at first. Over two years she kept asking…
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- The Glass After Dinner – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- The Cigarette Behind the Hostel – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- Night Games, Empty Mornings – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do
- Pills for Sleep, Pills for Nerves – what this story teaches, the signs and what to do