Chemical Addiction Research Papers

On the other hand, imagine how taken aback people are to find themselves dependent on chemical substances when there were no apparent clues suggesting they might be susceptible to active addiction. This sometimes happens when a person is prescribed pain pills after surgery or for pain management or a person decides to experiment with heroin, and the obsessions/compulsions of addiction raise their monstrous heads without warning. There is no pre-emptive strategy for this. So, sometimes people put themselves in a dangerous situation and sometimes they are blindsided. A person never deliberately chooses to become addicted. Chemical addiction is rooted in the built-in tendency of the individual to develop the habit of substance dependence, but it is triggered, energized and sustained BY THE CHOICES OF THE ADDICTS/ALCOHOLICS THEMSELVES. The bottom line for family members to remember is that what family members do or don't do does not directly cause another person to become an active addict/alcoholic. What family members do and the conditions they establish at home may contribute to the prompting of the
The best answer is, "I came into treatment because I want to recover." The focus on recovery needs to be primary. A discussion of everything else makes sense in treatment if, and only if, it promotes healing. To try to find out why something happened should give way to discovering how to avoid it in the future and how to "turn lemons into lemonade." Perhaps a person can never know fully why something happened, but a person can always work to make things better. Family members don't need to be reminded that something went wrong; they need to be instilled with hope and strength and courage because they, like their addicted loved one, have been traumatized and deserve