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Families First Conference

21 November 2013

Nick Barton, Chief Executive

Tough love & recovery:

“How Tough is Too Tough?”

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Addict+ Tough Love = Recovery ?

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Recovery is

when, by objective measures

the person is no longer suffering from

or is now in remission from the condition in question;

i.e., no longer exhibiting the symptoms of addiction.

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Enabling Tough Love White text

here

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Addiction

addiction is a consuming relationship

with a substance or behaviour driven by

an urge to feel something different that

becomes self-perpetuating and results

in a range of harmful consequences

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Parallel

Addiction Responses

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hopium

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Can you get someone to stop their addiction by the way you relate to them?

No

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Can you improve your life by the way you relate to someone with an addiction?

Yes

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Advice begins with

Stop

Don’t

Avoid

Do

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You? Me? We? Them?

Us

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Evidence ?

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Thank you for listening

Nick BartonChief Executive

Action on Addiction

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