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• Support groups can be a source of strength for people recovering from substance abuse.

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a worldwide self-help recovery group.

• AA uses 12 steps to recovery and spiritual growth that end in the person’s helping others recover.

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People addicted to alcohol and members of their families suffer financial, physical, and emotional losses.

Costs of Alcoholism

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People who are addicted to alcohol place a burden

on society by:• Taking days off work or school.• Losing or quitting jobs. • Requiring more hospitalizations.• Causing accidents or injuring others.• Engaging the legal system if arrested.

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• Alcohol addiction also negatively impacts families.

• The family suffers losses of income and status in the community.

• Family members may suffer physical and mental abuse.

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• Only the addicted person can choose to stop the cycle of addiction.

• Admitting to having a dependency problem is the first step on the road to recovery.

• Many times, physical, mental, and emotional defeat force a person to admit to an addiction.

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Recovery from addiction occurs in three stages:• Accepting that the problem exists.

• Quitting alcohol use and getting help.

• Remaining drug or alcohol-free.

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Family members and friends of alcohol-dependent people must live their own lives as best they can.

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• If you know someone who drinks excessively, do not enable the person’s alcohol abuse.

The Cost of Enabling

enableTrying to save the addicted person from consequences of the behavior

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• Enabling takes many different forms, including providing money to the alcohol abuser, helping to make excuses, or doing the other’s work.

• By blocking the consequences of the alcohol abuser’s behavior, the enabler prevents the learning that would otherwise take place.

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• A codependent may need to seek help to learn how to help the alcohol abuser.

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codependent

An enabler who is a member of the family of, or has a close relationship with, a person addicted to a drug

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• Two support groups that teach enablers how to help the alcohol abuser are Al-Anon and Alateen.

• Support groups can help children and teens who may feel neglected or suffer abuse as a result of alcoholism in the family.

• Enablers also learn that they cannot solve or take responsibility for another person’s addiction.

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The road to recovery from alcohol or other abuse is long and hard.

Recovery

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• In the beginning of the recovery process from alcohol addiction, the person does not drink or use drugs, but the craving is still there.

• As time goes on, the person becomes sober and begins to enjoy life without the substance.

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• Denial, refusal, bargaining, anger, guilt, and acceptance are emotional stages that a person giving up alcohol must go through.

Recovery

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Refusal to believe the facts of a circumstance

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• What is the difference between an enabler and a codependent?

codependentA member of the family of, or has a close relationship with, the person addicted to a drug

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enablerSomeone who tries to save the addicted person from the consequences of behavior

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• What is the term meaning “refusal to believe the facts of a circumstance,” such as addiction?

denialRefusal to believe the facts of a circumstance

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