Families living with addiction find it hard to believe getting effective help requires long term drug rehab treatment. I talk to parents of addict in their 30's and 40's still living at home who have suffered and struggled for literally decades think that these things can be overcome with outpatient programs or weekly meetings.
Decades of living a life of non production , no direction and no purpose. And this is to overcome and handled in a few short hours or weeks? Can you imagine? It takes confronting the problem and its very obvious that some families cannot see it or are willing too see to even look. Drug addiction doesnt happen over night, alcohol addiction either. When abusing any substance becomes more important than things in life that really matter, like family, job and being self supporting its time to take a look at whats really going on.
As an example most people think an alcoholic can simply attend short term detox versus long term alcohol treatment and then go back to life as normal. That's where people fail. I lost a cousin with the same outlook so I know what its like to lose a family member to alcohol addiction. He never really stood back and did what it took to overcome his problem, nor gave himself the oppurtunity to really take a look at the inner demon driving the addiction.
Please don't wait until its too late, do something and when you do, find a long term drug and alcohol treatment program that handles all the issues surrounding your loved one's addiction.
