How to get help for a loved one

How to Support your Loved One

  • Educate yourself on addiction and recovery.
  • Try not to accuse or judge.
  • Provide a sober environment.
  • Understand that your lives will change.
  • Allow them time to attend 12-step meetings.
  • Make time for sober fun.
  • Do not enable.
  • Set boundaries, that everyone agrees on.
  • Types of financial support that are okay.
  • Recognize and acknowledge their potential.

How to Get Help for Your Loved One

  • Focus on enabling recovery.
  • Let them develop their own support network.
  • Gain an understanding of their treatment journey (treatment plan).
  • Do not buy into the emotional call and visits.
  • It is okay to love at a distance.
  • Offer limited financial support.
  • Do Not pick them up early from treatment.
  • Recovery doesn’t stop after treatment.

Family Members: How to Take Care of Yourself

  • Focus on enabling recovery.
  • Let them develop their own support network.
  • Gain an understanding of their treatment journey (treatment plan).
  • Do not buy into the emotional call and visits.
  • It is okay to love at a distance.
  • Offer limited financial support.
  • Do Not pick them up early from treatment.
  • Recovery doesn’t stop after treatment.