Perception: why addicts think substances improve life

Are You Enabling an Addict? … How to break the Cycle

• The MP x Rock Recovery Center partnership. (2:32)

• Accepting the truth that something needs to change. (5:53)

• Compassion fatigue. (9:25)

• You can love your addict to death. (11:42)

• Don’t act on emotion. (19:57)

• Being the best manipulator in the room. (24:17)

• Enabling loved ones. (28:24)

• Where does their drive come from? (33:41)

• Don’t ever try to figure this out on your own! (39:52)

• Their take on marijuana. (44:25)

• Is kratom becoming an issue? (49:04)

• Perception. (1:02:09)

• Don’t kick the can down the road. (1:04:57)

• Can you logic an addict into recovery? (1:12:53)

• Homework items. (1:21:36)

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