7 Tips to Cope with Living with a Person Addicted to Drugs (Tips For Persons Affected By Substance Abuse)
Raised voice! Constant bickering back and forth! Verbal, emotional and physical abuse! Slammed door! Desperate calls to the police station! Unending trips to the family court! For the past few years my family and I have been plagued by one or more of the aforementioned events on a daily basis. We have first-hand experience of the pain, dysfunction and instability brought by drug use on the family. For the past three years we have been confronted with the challenge of drug abuse in our family home. My little brother is a user of Marijuana, Crystal meth and Nicotine. He has admitted to using these three substances on a daily basis in the past year alone while refusing the intervention of drug rehabilitation center's. The effects of this drug use have changed his natural temperament and personality terribly; it’s like living with a complete stranger. It has also caused huge strain on the family. Despite the many events that have presented a chance for divisions in our fami