SafeHouse Podcast

Season 4 Episode 11

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

The purpose of our podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.

You Deserve a Better You

Season 4 – Episode 11

I seem to have irritated a number of well-meaning family members of alcoholics and addicts by suggesting that they need to shift the focus from their loved one to themselves if they are to hold out any hope of having a peaceful and productive life.

The reality is that there is not much, if anything, you can do to change the trajectory of your loved one’s disease, short of an intervention, and even then, there’s no guarantee that it will stick. But at least you might have the satisfaction of knowing that you tried your best. There is really no such thing as failure so long as you chalk it up as a learning experience.

Let me say this about interventions, and I am a believer in anything that could bring a suffering addict out of the cold and into the light.

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