10 Mistakes Most Families Make in Dealing With Drug Addict!

Find out which mistake deepens the problem and result in more serious effect.

When I found out that one of my sons was taking drugs, I was surprised and pained.

The confusion was not the only one that has been my companion since this moment, but the fear for him and his future almost killed me.

This date was not lost on my mind, and my memory did not erase it, so I decided to confront the problem, and try to find a quick and effective solution.

Until I knew that the decision was the most important step for treatment, then I searched for a specialist, and then made effort and money until my son returned to his normal life. - Mrs. Ejiroghene Bright recounts.

The recovery journey for the addict’s family is the most difficult and painful in their lives, as they do not have the slightest experience of what they should do about this disaster from their point of view.

The beginning of the painful experience, from now on, will be the real ordeal in the life of that family, which only has to follow the therapeutic institution in which it trusted, take the opinions of specialists, and above all seek the help of God.

But there are common mistakes that the addicted son/daughter's family makes without realizing that falling into them may deepen the problem, and result in more serious effects than the show itself.


I Monitor 10 Mistakes That Familes Make in Dealing With The Addicted Son.

1. Ignore the problem:
Dealing with the son/daughter as being in adolescence in which curiosity is an essential feature, and that the son will be fine when he matures and grows.


2. Do not leave this at home:
Not being indifferent to the danger of leaving analgesics, sedatives, and narcotic drugs in easily accessible places, is one of the most common mistakes.


3. Pay attention to one of them at the expense of the rest:
To spend all your time worrying about your child with a drug problem, and ignore the rest of your children trying to make their choices as good as possible.


4. Unconscious extravagance:
Continuing to give your son money unconsciously, or your son spending his money on drug abuse to the best of your knowledge and doing nothing, and the one who pays for that is the mother who does not know that one of her sons is now addicted because he is “spoiled.”


5. Delayed confrontation:
The more you delay in confronting your abused son, the more you will pay the price for this many times over, as the matter does not require all this trouble, just take the first decision to confront, and then seek to solve the problem from the beginning.


6. No to isolation:
One of the worst feelings that you may convey to your son/daughter is to deal with the logic of isolation from people and society just because he fell into the clutches of drugs and addiction . Beware not to isolate him psychologically or socially.


7. Don't justify it:
Justifying the addicted son in front of his family, especially his sisters, results in them feeling indifferent towards the wrong actions they are doing without feeling the seriousness of the problem of abuse.


8. Psychotherapy:
As soon as your son enters a recovery program, you must be aware that attending psychotherapy sessions helps him recover properly, and abandoning him at this stage is a setback that may return him to square zero.


9. Back to the same environment:
To be satisfied with the first stages of addiction treatment, and to be happy about your son’s return to a life that seems normal, without completing the treatment program, and falling into a trap is one of the most serious problems, is to make him into the same environment in which he fell into drug abuse and addiction.


10. Communication is better than cure:
After going through this painful experience, do not leave your children without real communication, talk to them, share their problems, their private lives, so that one of them does not become a new victim in the merciless world of addiction, for communication is better than treatment.