Create the Ideal Home Environment for Your Adult Child in Recovery

Here are 7 ideas for creating the ideal home environment for your adult child in recovery. While supporting them in this phase, establish very clear boundaries. While you can provide a comfortable environment for them, try to make it something that you can easily revoke, should they begin using again.

From Pot to Kratom, He’s Always Using Something

When your loved one is using drugs almost continuously, there are few opportunities to reward non-use. You are right about this. You are also correct in not rewarding moments of withdrawal, that period you describe when your son first gets up and is agitated and verbally abusive.

Whatever You Put in Front of Your Sobriety You Will Lose

There is an AA saying, one that I think also applies to families navigating the addiction of a loved one. Simply put, getting and staying sober must come first. Yet, for families, there is so much else going on.

How to Use Rewards with An Addicted Family Member

How rewarding an addicted family member for non-use can help decrease their use, get them into treatment, and increase your own quality of life.

What is Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)?

CRAFT is a scientifically proven alternative approach to Al-Anon, for families struggling with the addiction of a loved one.