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Helping the Addict You Love
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Helping the Addict You Love: The New Effective Program for Getting the Addict into Treatment
Author: Laurence M. Westreich, M.D.
Overview
It’s okay to love them—and it’s your right to help them.
Addiction devastates lives, but as a loved one, you don’t have to simply step back or cut ties. In Helping the Addict You Love, psychiatrist and addiction specialist Dr. Laurence M. Westreich offers a compassionate yet practical roadmap for motivating someone you love toward treatment—without losing yourself in the process.
Rejecting the extremes of “tough love” or passive detachment, Dr. Westreich introduces a balanced method of creative engagement and constructive coercion, providing you with effective communication tools, proven strategies, and clear scripts for having pivotal conversations. You’ll learn how to:
- Motivate your loved one to recognize their addiction on their own terms
- “Raise the bottom” by using real-life consequences like embarrassment, job loss, or health scares
- Know when to listen quietly, when to confront firmly, and when to seek professional help
- Engage therapists and treatment programs effectively
- Handle special circumstances such as minors, pregnancy, co-occurring mental illness, or medical conditions
Grounded in decades of clinical experience, this book empowers families and friends to remain lovingly involved while protecting their own emotional well-being.
Praise for Helping the Addict You Love
- “Highly recommended… contradicts conventional wisdom and offers a more positive outlook than tough love or interventions.” — Library Journal
- “This book is an invaluable resource for the family and friends of addicted people… it shows how to approach this serious problem.” — Marc Galanter, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center
- “Terrific… offers context, understanding, practical strategies, and most of all, hope.” — Roger D. Weiss, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
About the Author
Laurence M. Westreich, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction specialist with extensive experience treating patients with dual diagnoses of substance use and mental health disorders. An associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, he also serves as consultant on drugs of abuse to Major League Baseball. Dr. Westreich previously directed Bellevue Hospital’s Detoxification and Dual Diagnosis Units. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.
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