Author name: Dan Parrish

By Acqua Recovery

They’re the best of times and the worst of times. Paradoxically, the holiday season can be as challenging as it is joyful — and for some, it’s just plain painful. That’s especially true for individuals in early recovery.

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The decision to pursue addiction treatment can be one of the most important decisions that you or your family ever make.

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When a loved one is struggling with addiction, your world transforms into a twisted house of horrors, where everything is unfamiliar and nothing is as it seems.

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If you have a loved one in your life that has a history of drug and alcohol abuse, then it is likely you have familiarity with the concept of relapse.

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It’s a sad reality, but drug use is much more common within marriages than you might think. According to one recent survey by the Substances & Mental Health Services Administration, nearly 20% of all married men and 13% of married women reported drug use within the last year.

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As much as the science of addiction is a product of only the last few decades, an understanding of how substance use disorder affects the people surrounding it is even more nascent.

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Although suffering from substance use disorder is a lonely and isolating experience, it is a disease that infects nearly everyone that it touches: whether through emotional trauma, economic impact, legal problems, or any number of side effects.

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Dealing with an addicted loved one can be absolutely exhausting, not to mention frustrating. Maybe you’ve thought that you can help your loved one get sober on your own, but the truth is you can’t!