Don’t enable, be tough!

If a loved one needs a drug treatment program, be loving, just don’t enable. They are taught that the only way that they can truly help us to change our ways is to stop enabling, and to start giving a little tough love. And it’s true too, and tough love can help. Giving an addict money, for whatever reason, is like giving them a loaded gun. If they need a drug and alcohol abuse treatment program, they need money, but directly from your hands to the drug abuse treatment program

But tough love gets a little too tough when we finally reach the point when we can no longer deny the extent of the problem, when we accept that things are out of control and when we realize that to have any chance at a better life; we are going to need some help. When we reach that point and we come pleading for a bit of money for our treatment, turning us away is awfully hard, has nothing to do with enabling or otherwise and just keeps too many of us out of treatments that could really get us up out of the mess we’ve made of things.

We may not deserve it, but we’ll make it up to you once we’re better. You don’t have to give the money to us either, we can understand how that might make you feel a little uncomfortable…pay the drug addiction treatment facility directly. But do help us, if you still love us at all, do help us.

Filed under: Drug Treatment, Drug Treatment Center, Drug Addiction, Addiction on November 16th, 2007