Families

It was never really about the job, or an article in Time, or anything except his own fervent desire to keep drinking and prove everyone else wrong.

In the early and middle stages of addiction, addicts may experience mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms without recognizing them.

Their targets often know or strongly suspect they’re being manipulated, but give in anyway because they can’t figure out how to avoid it.

The better we understand the origins of a depressed mood, the more likely we are to come up with an effective remedy.

It makes us uncomfortable to acknowledge that degree of helplessness.

This is really about a continuous process of change. The unifying force is the addict’s subjective experience.

Ultimately, you are the only one that makes decisions about your life.

We’ll see the progress that was occurring even when the addict appeared, at the time, to be floundering badly.

Counselors are taught that the best way to make progress is to let the client determine the direction the relationship takes.

Intervention is about achieving a very specific time-limited objective: an addict or alcoholic who agrees to participate in treatment.