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If you’re not careful, the whole thing turns into an endless game of cat-and-mouse, that leads nowhere.

That’s the mystery: Not why some people become addicted to certain substances, but why others do not.

Like a stroke patient who suddenly finds himself needing to relearn basic skills that were once automatic, it may require a level of personal commitment unseen for many years.

Addiction programs, conversely, targeted elimination or at least substantial reduction in substance use– a narrower goal that permitted greater focus in treatment.

The practitioner’s job is to tease apart the clinical picture to identify likely contributors to focus on in treatment.

It should have been obvious all along that this effort was being Divinely Orchestrated. I just needed to step up and let the process work.

Newcomers had a tendency to focus their attention on the drug that brought them to treatment, ignoring others they happened to have been using.

I’m sure some is used to suppress withdrawal, but if it’s possible to get high, then you have to figure people are doing that, too.

Perhaps 20% of users will experience withdrawal– evidence of their dependence on the drug– regardless of whether they have other symptoms.

Be sure to tell them to focus more on the positive things their loved one is doing versus what s/he has done wrong in the past.