Those trying to overcome a dependency on drugs or alcohol have a wide range of treatments available to them. There are hospital detoxification units, and both outpatient and residential treatment facilities with highly qualified professional staff to help them work on the physical and emotional aspects of their addictions.

But at the heart of any successful drug addiction program there has to be a source of ongoing drug addiction support to which addicts can turn when their professional treatment had ended. Recovering addicts without drug addiction support are much more likely to relapse than those who have found some.

Family First
The ideal sources of drug addiction support will be the addicts’ families, who in the past supported them in all the other areas of their lives, from personal relationships to jobs. Unfortunately, families are often unable to cope with their addicts; and addicts often have feelings which make it difficult to approach their families for drug addiction support. But the unconditional love of a family is the very best drug addiction support for those addicts lucky enough to have it.

That’s What Friends Are For
Those friends who were not involved in sharing the addicts’ substance abuse can provide exceptional drug addiction support if given the chance. They offer companionship, and by keeping the addicts involved in drug-free environments, steer them away from those people and situations in which drug use is considered a social necessity. Because friends are less likely to have difficult emotional memories regarding the addicts, the drug addiction support they offer may, in certain situations, be better than that from the families.

Support Groups
Drug addiction support [http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/Drug_Addiction_Programs/] groups are people whose biggest desire is to help addicts reach the awareness that they do not need drugs to make them either happy or likeable. Some drug addiction support groups will even work with the families of addicts to help them understand that their loved ones will need continuing support in overcoming their substance abuse, and that recovery never ends.

There are drug addictions support groups which follow the twelve step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, and have chapters in every urban area to which addicts can turn in their weak moments.

If you are either an active or recovering drug addict, one of the best things you will ever do for yourself is to find someone to act as your drug addiction support. And the more people you can enlist in your struggle, the easier it will become.

 

 

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Drug Abuse in Children Is On the Increase – Imo Ndlea

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Owerri — The Director of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Imo, Mr Mshelia Kuka, has decried the growing trend of drug abuse among school children and described it as 'disheartening '. Kuka spoke in Owerri on Thursday at a workshop …
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Drink & drugs-linked deaths in Scotland reach highest-ever level

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The drug, which can be prescribed to addicts to help them kick their habit, was involved in 275 deaths last year – up from 174 in 2010. The number of deaths involving heroin and/or morphine fell over the same period, going from 254 in 2010 to 206 last …
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