1. Families First Conference
21 November 2013
Tough love & recovery:
“How Tough is Too Tough?”
Nick Barton,
Chief Executive
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2. Addict+ Tough Love = Recovery ?
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3. Recovery is
when, by objective measures
the person is no longer suffering from
or is now in remission from the condition
in question;
i.e., no longer exhibiting the symptoms
of addiction.
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5. Enabling
Tough Love
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6. Addiction
addiction is a consuming relationship
with a substance or behaviour driven
by an urge to feel something different
that becomes self-perpetuating and
results in a range of harmful
consequences
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7. Parallel
Addiction
Responses
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8. hopium
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9. Can you get someone to stop their
addiction by the way you relate to them?
No
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10. Can you improve your life by the way you
relate to someone with an addiction?
Yes
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11. Advice begins with
Stop
Don’t
Avoid
Do
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13. You? Me? We? Them?
Us
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14. Evidence ?
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16. Thank you for listening
Nick Barton
Chief Executive
Action on Addiction
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