Relapse isn’t born in the moment someone picks up. It’s not the drink, the hit, the line, or the call to the dealer. Relapse starts long before the substance reappears. It begins quietly—inside daily habits, inside self-deception, inside the gaps people pretend aren’t there. The world keeps telling us relapse is a failure of discipline. […]
Codependency on a loved one addicted to alcohol or other drugs can be a deadly affair. By definition, codependency is an unhealthily close relationship where one person plays one of these six enabling roles that allow another’s addictive behaviour to continue. The enabler is convinced that they are doing the right and caring thing by […]
A person doesn’t become addicted overnight. Instead, an addiction develops gradually as a result of repeated substance abuse. This process unfolds in phases. Read on to understand the four stages of addiction.