The Guarantees of addiction/ recovery
If you make it easy to do drug in your home. They will continue to use.
If you make it easy to do drug in your home. They will continue to use.
Some of those options were TOUGH to apply as a parent. If he overdosed and died I would want to be able to look myself in the mirror each day and know that I could live with what I did for him and for my family.
Tough Love is not pleasant “Medicine” to apply to our children. However Tough Love is medicinal and should be applied as a treatment not a retribution! Far too many parents get into the “retribution” mode.
Tough love is not meant to be punitive! Tough love is enforcing techniques and therapies that can help your addicted child, while loving them unconditionally the entire time. It is much like the loving parent spooning a nasty tasting cold medicine to their baby. We spoon this tough love to our addict child and in our heart and head, understand that it is the medicine they need.
Tough Love to addiction is what Chemotherapy is to cancer patients. Neither treatment is easy to go through for patient or their family.