What is the best way to handle someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol?
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ANSWERS: 27
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i'd say an intervention with a professional and try to get them to go to rehab.
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Very carefully. Most people suffering from addiction are usually quite volatile. Don't tell them you know what they're going through. Read "Beautiful Boy." Its a really good book about addiction
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I would encourage them to seek professional help. If they do not want to admit to having a problem and unwilling to seek help I am afraid I have no choice but to distant myself from them.
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Show compassion for them as a human being but do not enable their behavior or allow them to manipulate you. Encourage them to seek treatment. Most importantly, live your own life and if necessary go to Alanon to learn how to do that.
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Handle? That sounds rather clinical and cold. You don't handle them... you make up your mind to either help them or put them in the hands of someone who will. Love is not always easy. Plain and simple, sometimes it just sucks! But the best advice I can give you, having been saved by someone I love, myself. Someone who loved me enough to compromise their own life for my safety, health and sanity... Remove them from the circumstances, people and places that make them continue to decide to be sick. Be there for them and let them know there is hope if they want it. But they have to want it.
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Encourage them to get help to "kick" that addiction. I am not a medical professional so I think the quicker this person can receive the help of a professional, the better his/her chances are of success. Happy Friday! :)
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If the person is willing to quit, try getting that person to treatment programs. Try searching online. If you don't have much luck, call your local precinct house. They might be able to direct you. If they don't want help, I'll send you a prayer.
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Pinch off their stash before they use it all up : P
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Give them all the help you can. However, if anything you do is enabling, it has to be help from a distance.
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Well, be careful. Encourage that person to go into recovery even if they've already been in recovery programs. I am in recovery myself and let a man into my life, and he stole from my children and I and physical and mentally abused me for 2 years. Yes, I enabled him thinking that each entry into a recovery program would be the last. He is a pathological liar and still is to this day. I knew I couldn't change him, and I tried to support him, but he kept going back out there. I'm grateful that he is now out of my life(just spoke to him long distance for the very last time). Even if they say that they have been clean for a long time, they don't always shake their addict ways. The ball is in their court, and they have to want recovery. They can't be forced. So, handle with care and DO NOT enable that person.
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CHECK THE HOSPITAL FOR A LOCATION OF A REHAB CEBTER. THEY'D KNOW BEST.
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There's a lot of good advice here. The only thing I have to add is that you can't get through to them while they are high. You have to wait until they are not on anything, otherwise they can't hear you.
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Don't.
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help them as much as you possibly can. dont give up. and if you truly dont love them, then RUN.
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If it has gotten to the point that their addiction is affecting your life you need to give them an ultimatum or just simply tell them that you can't afford to have them around. It's really hard but after a while you realize how much easier it makes everything.
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Leave them alone and only help them when they come to you and say "I'm an addict. I need to stop using; can you help me find a rehab?"
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let them be and be ready to catch them when they fall
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very carefully and sensitively. They can be very unpredictable.
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refuse to associate with them. tell them if they really care about you they will help themself. not only for you but more importantly for themselves.
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handle yourself, they have to hit rock bottom
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i have one word for you, rehab
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Do you mean 'handle someone' for your sake, or for theirs? When a loved one is addicted to drugs/alcohol it is hard for everyone (all friends, family, co-workers, ect.), that is why they call addiction "a family disease." The most important thing you can do is take care of yourself, because there are no words or actions that you can do to make them stop using/drinking. An addict will only stop when he or she really wants to & is ready to. Doesn't mean they don't care about your feelings, or who else they have hurt. Addiction is so powerful, it can completely consume a person to blindness. There are support groups like Alanon (http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/), that can help YOU handle YOUR life if it is affected by someone elses addiction. There are support groups like AA (Alcoholics Anonymous, http://www.aa.org/?Media=PlayFlash) & NA (Narcotics Anonymous, http://www.na.org/) that can help the ones who are addicted.
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To first understand that you cannot change what you don't acknowledge. Those people have to make their own choices for change. You can only be a bystander. Don't get to involved or manipulated by them (for money to buy drugs or alcohol). Tell them you are there for support and not freebies. Don't feed their disease.
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I have no experience handling drug addicts or alcoholics. I would probably suggest professional help for them in the rehabilitation centers. Meanwhile I will just pray for them.
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Give them an advice and take them to STEVE WILKOS SHOWS and get rid from that addictions. Complaint this to their parents or 911. Help them. God Bless all of you.
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Don't interfere with someone who is truly hooked,there are professionals to help where you are trying to go,seek the professional first.
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they have to realize that then decide to stop or get help, its the only way to really help them, let them help themselves
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