SomeBuddies Podcast Episode 17 | Addiction| Relationships in Recovery| Patience in Recovery Process

SomeBuddies Podcast presents a new Episode on Addiction, Relationships in Recovery & Patience in Recovery Process.
Addiction is a chronic disease that has the potential to negatively affect a person’s life and health. One of the casualties of a battle with addiction is the trail of damaged relationships it leaves in its wake. With the right kind of help, repairing relationships after addiction is possible.
ADDICTION: A FAMILY DISEASE
When one person in the family develops a substance abuse issue, it doesn’t solely affect them. No matter what their particular drug of choice happens to be, their addiction is a family disease, since it causes stress to the people living in the family home and to those people closest to the addict.
This disease has the potential to interfere with normal family life and routines. A person living with an addiction may behave in an erratic manner, depending on whether they are sober, drunk or high, or recovering from a time when they were drinking or using drugs.
Someone who is in the throes of an active addiction may lie about how much they are drinking, how many drugs they are taking or even that they are taking drugs at all. This is one of the symptoms of the disease, and it’s quite common for addicts to manipulate loved ones if it means they can get resources (money, food, a place to stay, cell phone, etc.) that will support the addiction.
Family members may also react to a loved one’s addiction by stepping in to help. Their motives may be for the best of intentions, at least at first. It can take time for a family to realize that they are dealing with a loved one who has developed an addiction to drugs or alcohol. The early stages of the disease can be subtle. Addicts can be very good at persuading family members that an episode where they were under the influence was an isolated one and that it will never happen again.” Unfortunately, in the case of someone who is living with an addiction, it always happens again.
Not everyone in the family will agree with trying to help the addicted family member. There may be people who think that taking a tough stance is the way to handle the situation. When family members disagree about the best way to deal with someone who has an addiction issue, conflict ensues and the person with the addiction is left to continue drinking or using drugs while the discussion or arguing goes on. The addict realizes that as long as the family is in turmoil, they’ll be able to feed their addiction relatively undisturbed. They are not going to allow anything to get in the way of feeding the addiction.
statistics about addiction and relationships
NUMBER OF FAMILIES AFFECTED BY ADDICTION:
Addiction is, unfortunately, all too common today. Families dealing with a loved one struggling with this chronic disease may feel as though they are on their own, but these statistics may help to put the issue into a different perspective.
About 21.5 million Americans have a substance abuse disorder according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine. This figure applies to people aged 12 and older.
Of this number, about 1.9 million people developed an addiction to prescription pain medicines and 586,000 had an addiction to heroin.
Approximately 23 percent of those people who use heroin develop an addiction to opioids (the class of pain medications that includes morphine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, codeine, and oxycodone).
In 2013, the number of Americans either dependent on alcohol or had problems related to alcohol use was 17.3 million, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
REBUILDING RELATIONSHIPS IN RECOVERY
The key to healing from addiction and rebuilding trust after the addict in your family has hurt all of you, let you down, disappointed you, and caused chaos more times than you can count is a drug and alcohol treatment program. Professional help is needed for people struggling with drug addiction to learn how to live a sober lifestyle and learn how to live without their drug of choice.
Part of this process is helping addicts come to terms with the fact that their lives don’t immediately become better once they stop using chemicals. Clients in recovery have to take responsibility for and deal with, the aftermath of events that occurred while they were still using drugs or alcohol. It was not their choice to use while they were in the cycle of addiction, but the harm caused to relationships with intimate partners, family members, and close friends still need to be dealt with. While in a drug and alcohol treatment center, the staff and counselors can help clients using several different techniques.

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