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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: Stop the Epidemic Inside the Pandemic
Description: In this podcast, we discuss the ways in which family members can educate themselves and support initiatives that will de-stigmatize addictive disorders.We learn that:Family members must not buy into the myth that an alcoholic or addict has to hit bottom before they will accept help. Believing that dangerous myth could take years to play out and could result in death or jail, or somewhere in between.The alternative to standing by and watching the train wreck is to do an intervention in which the whole family participates, and it starts with education on the...