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When alcoholics and addicts "hit bottom" one of two things will happen. Either they will bounce or they will go splat. Why wait to see which it will be?
Thinking alcoholism is a phase is like thinking baldness is a phase.
If you wait for an alcoholic to self-diagnose their problem, you'll still be waiting at their funeral.
If you're close enough to know they have a problem, you're close enough to help.
As long as there is a cushion, the drinker will drink and the user will use.
Yelling at an alcoholic about their drinking is like yelling at the umpire at a baseball game, you might feel a little better, but nothing changes.
An alcoholic will drink when prudence, logic and past experience prohibit it.
Always remember, a family, if they want to, can undo six months of work in six seconds.
No one ever got clean and sober without some form of an intervention.
The only thing worse that being an addict is living with one.
Half the time drug-addicts are afraid they're going to die; the other half, they're afraid they're not going to die.
When a person starts to slip, the world is greased for the occasion!
No matter how hurt, lost, or despairing a person may be, it doesn't have to be that way.
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"The Daughter-In-Law" (When They Won't Quit, page 33) This case was set in motion by the parents of a using (cocaine) son. Their son's wife had become
the breadwinner and may have felt more important when her husband used. She told me that my intervention wasn't necessary--her
husband just concluded a big deal three months ago. It turned out to be three years ago! Now, I explained to the wife
that the advantage comes to the interventionist when he catches the patient off guard--by surprise--so that they don't have
time to build their defenses. I called her on her cell phone to determine the best time for me to come to the home,
However, when I reached her, she nonchalantly called her husband over to the phone and said, "Honey, there's someone
here that wants to speak with you." That faux pas resulted in an additional
two months of agony for her husband before I could get him into treatment.
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