More often than not, drug and alcohol addiction is spoken and written about in sweeping statistics. Newscasters or journalists report that a 23.5 million people needed treatment for dependency issues in one year. What gets lost in these overwhelming numbers are the personal struggles of friends and family members, the people attempting to help the addict in their life cope with a difficult disease. Often times though, what feels like positive help, is actually negatively enabling an addict’s addiction to continue.

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